My responsibility as a Buddhist practitioner is not to hold you against your will, you should do whatever you want, anything, everything. But once you have a realisation “Okay, I should seek the Dharma and the teachings of the Buddha” then the teachers appear by themselves. You don’t have to look for it, you don’t have to travel thousands of kilometers looking for it, you will always find the teachers.
By the natural truth of the meaning of impermanence, you see that as a teaching and all the natural phenomena as a meaning of impermanence, you see that as a teaching as well. So once you come to an acceptance everything becomes a teaching. Once you become in a state of denial, everything, wherever you go, is a … because within you is a denial so it doesn’t matter whether you go, you do it out of feeling good for yourself. You are not doing it out of necessity from the depth of your heart.
So therefore there is a teaching of Niguma and Khyungpo Naljor. Khyungpo Naljor is a Tibetan fellow who existed 1,100 years ago and he is one of the main figures who brought so many teachings from India to Tibet. So when he went to India in Bodhgaya, he received many teachings and they said to him “Now since you are a very good practitioner you should go and see Niguma”, this is an angel, like a dakini, enlightened being, a female figure, very powerful yogini. This group of teachers told him you need to go in this direction, in this forest, to receive her teachings. Then he replied, he said “How can I find her?” Then they said to him “If you have a pure mind you will find her anywhere, if you don’t have a pure mind wherever you try to find (her) you cannot find.” So I find that a very beautiful teaching.
Nowadays many of the Buddhist practitioner we are running after this, little bit like, almost like becoming a Japanese Samurai class. You want to find a karate master or Samurai master or master of something, not really looking into oneself but rather grasping into the idea I need to have this in my head “Oh I have a teacher, I have a guru, you have a guru I have a guru”. It doesn’t work like that.
You have to practice with the sincerity and then as a practitioner the great teachers they can see the great quality within you. Then the relation, understanding, the dharmic connection will exist all by itself and that’s my understanding. Is it okay? Does it make sense to you?
His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche in Riga, Latvia
How to understand and apply the Buddhist wisdom of emptiness in everyday life (Q&A 2)
Ganden Center – September 2024 (47′ 25”)
To be continued…
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