Tuesday's Recommended Reading

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From Dilgo Khyentse's
"The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones,"
lets read from the Commentary on pg. 42-43 and
let's also read from the root text on page 209.





In today's selection from Dilgo Khyentse's commentary we can read:

"Dhar-ma practice and positive actions
are also NO more real than illusions and dreams,
but through these dreamlike merits
we will reach the dreamlike fruit
of enlightenment."


From the Dalai Lama's
"The Path to Enlightenment,"
lets read page 66-67 and
let's also read from the biography of
the 3rd Dalai Lama on page 209.





In today's selection the Dalai Lama explains:

"Were all the Buddhas and
lineage masters [teachers] of the past
to manifest before us at this very moment,
we would NOT be able to recognize them
as enlightened beings.

Due to our NOT having a sufficiently strong
karmic connection with them,
they would be unable to affect us.

The guru performs the great kindness of
coming to us in an ordinary form
which we can perceive and
to which we can relate,

and carries out the work of the Buddhas
in our lives.

The fact that a donkey like us
is brought into the family of spiritual beings
is purely due to the kindness of the guru.

The Buddhas can only come to us
through him or her.
Thus if we do NOT respect the guru and
heed his or her teachings,
what hope do we have?

We should meditate upon
the guru's unexcelled kindness
and give birth to
profound appreciation."


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In today's selection from
"The Healing Power of Love and Letting-go"
we can read:


"I have met a Sublime Teacher, but
let myself down by my negative behavior.
I have found the best path, but
I wander on precipitous byways.

Bless me and the foolish like me, that
our minds may be tamed by Bud-dha’s Dhar-ma."



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my other students at: Buddha's Quick Path

Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso: Rime Manipa Tantrika


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