Q: Yes Rinpoche, in the first part you mentioned in the beginning, I understand the first part “if you wish to attain the supreme realisation, naturally you will obtain also the so called ordinary siddhis [accomplishments]”. It’s okay, we’ve always heard this from many lamas.
The second part “if we wish to obtain the so called ordinary siddhis, we will also obtain the supreme siddhis”, this I don’t get, I don’t understand.
A: You don’t understand? Okay! [haha]
This a very good business deal that you have to take it. [haha] You should be flexible in life.
Q: It’s the first time I hear that.
A: Ah yeah, it’s because the Six-Armed Mahakala team they are very good in marketing. [haha] We do something they don’t, so then…
No, no, because at the end what are you practicing, right? At the end you are practicing Six-Armed Mahakala which requires refuge, bodhicitta and all of that.
So as you practice that, eventually over the time, you have less fixation on mind, you have less illusionary mind and you develop more clarity anyway. So which part doesn’t matter! Because in the back of your mind, wanting to receive Bodhicitta, wanting to receive all this ordinary blessing is in place and so on. It does not create any sort of a conflict.
Like an example, in order to do Dharma activity you need to have all these different elements to expand the Dharma activity, right? So Dharma activity cannot be just done by only teaching, sometime you need to have wisdom, sometime you need to have a different skill, sometime you need to have a different people.
So basically requesting Six-Armed Mahakala that in order to expand your Dharma activity I need different element or tools in order to flourish furthermore and so on.
So that’s that.
Is it okay?
Q: Thank you.
A: You’re welcome.
That will be the final question and answer for tonight.
[Sharing Merits]
བསོད་ནམས་འདི་ཡིས་ཐམས་ཅད་གཟིགས་པ་ཉིད། །
sonam di yi thamchay zigpa nyi
By this virtue may all attain omniscience,
ཐོབ་ནས་ཉེས་པའི་དག་རྣམས་ཕམ་བྱས་ནས། །
thobnay nyepay dranam phamchay nay
Having defeated the enemy, wrongdoing,
སྐྱེ་རྒ་ན་འཆིའི་རྦ་རླབས་འཁྲུགས་པ་ཡི། །
kyega nachi balab trukpa yi
May I free all beings from the stormy waves of
སྲིད་པའི་མཚོ་ལས་འགྲོ་བ་སྒྲོལ་བར་ཤོག །
sipay tsholay drowa drol war shok
Birth, old age, sickness and death, and from the ocean of samsara.
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ནི་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། །
jang chup sem chok rinpoche
Bodhicitta is precious,
མ་སྐྱེས་པ་རྣམས་སྐྱེས་གྱུར་ཅིག །
ma kye pa nam kye gyur chik
May it arise in whom it has not arisen,
སྐྱེས་པ་ཉམས་པ་མེད་པ་དང་། །
kye pa nyam pa me pa dang
Once arisen may it ever grow, and
གོང་ནས་གོང་དུ་འཕེལ་བར་ཤོག་ །
gong ne gong du pel war shok
Flourish ever more and more!
Six-Armed Mahakala Teachings – Vajradhara Ling France
July 12, 2024 – Afternoon session (2h 21′ 50” – Q&A3 Either way you practice you end up getting the ordinary and extraordinary siddhis)
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