Do NOT turn a God into a Demon!

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“It is a mistake to confuse enthusiasm with wisdom.
It’s NOT uncommon for Dharma students to get so enthusiastic
that they fill their entire schedules with dharma and dharma related activities.
Big mistake.


How could that be a big mistake?
Because if we leave NO time in our schedules to
• breath,
• smile,
• play,
• screw,
• sleep and
• be an all around happy camper,
we’ll be creating the causes to be cranky bastards…
and no one wants that.

That is why in the pith instructions it is written,

“Do NOT turn a God into a Demon,”

or in other words
even something as good as Buddha’s Dharma,
if misapplied, could be profoundly destructive.

For instance, if we hold onto our understanding of the teachings too tightly
then we aren’t leaving room for greater insight and growth.
Let us explore this by way of contrast.

One student insists, “This is the truth….”
{can you sense his rigidity?}
a second student says, “This is what I was told…”
{could you sense this guy’s flexibility?}.

The more rigid we are
the less possibilities we experience,
whereas the more flexible we are
the vaster is the universe of possibility that we inhabit.

Many years ago,
I went a great period of time limiting my reading
to spiritual texts, exclusively.
That was a big mistake.

So my teacher recommended that I lighten up
and read both novels as well comic books
such as “Calvin and Hobbes” or “Garfield.”


I followed my teacher’s guidance,
and so ushered into my life,
a new series of playfulness, ease and consequentially realizations and growth
that had been impossible when I was over-working myself.

Yes asceticism can wear many masks,
including that of an enthusiastic scholar or a rigid dogmatist.
Come let us follow Buddha’s example and traverse the middle way
between asceticism and over indulgent foolishness.

But how can we know whether an activity is beneficial or destructive?
Simply dialog with the Buddha of Compassion.

You don’t know how?
Then find a lama to teach you this easy technique,
that you too might walk in the footsteps of:
• Chandragomin,
• Chandrakirti,
• Gelongma Palmo,
• Tsongkhapa,
• Jigme Lingpa,
• Kyergangpa, and
• Mingyur Namkhai Dorje.

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May you and yours be

happy and healthy!

Om Mani Padme Hum,

Lama Jigme Gyatso: Rime Manipa Tantrika

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Blessings and Truth

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Blessings and Truth

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May you and yours be
happy and healthy!

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Lama Jigme Gyatso: Rime Manipa Tantrika





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NOT my Job!

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Buddha’s Lost Secrets:
Tips on Meditation & the Spiritual path #204
from your Buddhism expert



There is only so much time and energy. These
limitations force us to choose between scholastic
accomplishment and spiritual attainment.



Many Americans who study Zen put more effort into trying to become Japanese, then they do trying to attain enlightenment.

But wait, there’s more!

The same absurdity occurs when Americans studying:
• Ch’an,
• Tantra or
• Theravada…

indulge in the silly distraction of getting lost in the cultures of:
• China,
• Tibet,
• India and
• Thailand.

It is NOT my Job to…

master:
• linguistics,
• culture,
• trivia or
• politics.

My job is simple.
Your job is simple.
Buddha’s job was simple.

May I give you two things?

May I give you a Fact and a Secret?

FACT: Buddha was born for two purposes;
#1 to accomplish full enlightenment in one
lifetime and...
#2 to take away the world’s sufferings.

Are you ready for the Secret?

That is also why you were born, and that is also why
I was born, and quite honestly, that is what the
meaning of life is all about!

So let’s free ourselves from the time-wasting and
energy-squandering distractions that threaten to
drain us like Dracula in a Bela Lugosi film.



And instead, let’s set our sights upon, the two most
worthy goals of accomplishing enlightenment for
ourselves and others.

If you were to schedule and pay for an audience with
the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet; and you asked him what
the meaning of life was, what would his answer be?



There is a good chance he would say, “the meaning of
life can be found in…

Completing the two collections for
the two purposes” ? ? ?

At that point:
• your eyes could glaze over,
• your jaw could hang slack and
• a line of drool could actually descend from
the corner of your mouth.

And of course at that sight, the Dalai Lama
could, good naturedly, point and laugh.



The “…two collections for the two purposes…”;

What could that Mean?

SIMPLE! The two purposes are:
#1 to accomplish full enlightenment in this
life and...
#2 to then, turn around, and help everyone
else do likewise; without ever
abandoning our:
• children,
• partners,
• jobs or
• homes.

The two collections are:
• the collection of transcendental Insight and
• the collection of Good-karma.

The two purposes are our destinations and the
two collections fuel us on Buddha’s path.



One of the most effective ways to further your
progress on Buddha’s path to enlightenment to is
to practice the “Treasure of the Dalai Lamas” for
3 minuets every morning and 44 seconds every
evening. That way you’ll understand the essence of
Buddha’s teachings, so you can have a hook to
hang your hat on, so it could be much easier to
feel safe on enlightenment’s path, so you could
free up your time and energy for that which is
truly important… greater: peace, love, bliss and
transformation, so reserve your copy now



Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso
Tibetan-Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika


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Treasure of the Dalai Lamas

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Hiding from Reality

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Buddha’s Lost Secrets:
Tips on Meditation & the Spiritual path #203
from your Buddhism expert



A sweet and earnest 12-stepper, who was exploring
Hindu mysticism, enthusiastically shared some of her
guru’s advice with me.



The utter nonsense that he was passing off as
spiritual guidance was, “Always Return to your
Breath.” Hmmm sounds nice {in a mindlessly
superficial sort of way}, but what was his point?

He was advising his students to turn from their
sufferings of sorrow, fear, aggression and turmoil and
run into the arms of Breathing meditation.

What a steaming Load of Monkey Poop!

Yes, just as I taught in “The Centering Questions” the
tranquility offered by effective breathing
meditation can be calming, peaceful and blissful. But
it can also be deceptively seductive.



Listen, before Buddha was Buddha, when he was still
Gautama the Monk, he quickly mastered the eight
“Jha-nas” of deep meditation. But he quickly observed
that whatever painful emotion drove him to mediate, was
NOT dissolved by his blissful meditation.

Rather, when he concluded each meditation session he
noticed that the painful emotion that drove him to
meditate, in the first place, was still there, with
all it’s destructive energy, poised and ready to
pounce; like a cat, sitting in front of a mouse hole,
waiting patiently for the inevitable re-appearance of
his quarry.



Buddha found that the only purpose of deep
meditation was to prepare the mind for contemplation.

In the centuries before Buddha, men like
Pantanjali taught the virtues of concentration and
men like Shankara praised the benefits of
contemplation. Just as Reese combined the great
tastes of both peanut butter and chocolate into
their “peanut butter cups” likewise only Buddha
successfully united both concentration and
contemplation into one, dynamically effective system.



A very effective presentation of Buddha’s
essentialized “middle-way” contemplations can be
found in the “Sutric Questions” portion of the
practice text “Quick Path to Happy Peace.” That is
why I’ve also made it available for FREE download.


Remember it is tranquility that gives us the
resourcefulness to contemplate effectively. As
I explained in “Harnessing the Power of the Bowing
Prayer,” ancient Indians described magick in terms of interdependent:
• matter,
• energy and
• thought.



Just as the Bowing Prayer is important to prepare the
body for mediation, likewise the practice of the
“Karmic Dynamo” is crucial for preparing both the
energy and the mind for the truly transformative and
liberating union of concentration and contemplation.


There are only 2 days left to get your copy of the
Karmic Dynamo for a substantial discount. I don’t
want you to miss out. So reserve your copy now



Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso
Tibetan-Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika


P.S. Remember, this live telephone teaching or
instructional CD is actually my way of saying
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San Diego County’s first “Buddha of Compassion
Monastery and Meditation Center.” The next
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Avalokiteshvara, Kuan Yin or Chenrezig…
who is this Buddha of Compassion?

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Chenrezig

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Buddha’s Lost Secrets:
Tips on Meditation & the Spiritual path #202
from your Buddhism expert



The great Tibetan saint, Patrul Rinpoche wrote:


Ah! Fount of compassion,
my root teacher, Lord Chen-re-zig,
you are my
only protector!

The Six-syllable mantra, essence of your speech
is the sublime Dhar-ma;
from now on I have
NO hope BUT you!

Two generations later, the 14th Dalai Lama’s late
teacher, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, explained:

Chen-re-zig is a fully enlightened Buddha who,

in order to benefit beings, takes on the form of a
Bo-dhi-sat-tva. All the Buddhas have but one nature
and their compassion is embodied in Chen-re-zig. As
the embodiment of the compassion of all the Buddhas,
Chen-re-zig is at the same time the source of all
Buddhas and Bo-dhi-sat-tvas, since compassion is
the very root of enlightenment. Chen-re-zig is
compassion itself in the form of a deity.

Chen-re-zig is the Buddha,

Chen-re-zig is the Dhar-ma,
Chen-re-zig is the Sang-ha;

Chen-re-zig is the Gu-ru,
Chen-re-zig is the Yi-dam,
Chen-re-zig is the Da-ki-ni;

Chen-re-zig is the Dhar-ma-ka-ya,
Chen-re-zig is the Sam-bho-ga-ka-ya,
Chen-re-zig is the Nir-ma-na-ka-ya;

Chen-re-zig is A-mi-ta-bha,
Chen-re-zig is Gu-ru Rin-po-che,
Chen-re-zig is Ar-ya Ta-ra;

and above all Chen-re-zig is
our own Root Teacher.

Like a hundred streams passing under a single bridge,

Chen-re-zig is the union of all the Buddhas.

To receive his blessings is to receive the
blessings of all the Buddhas, and to realize his
nature is to realize the nature of all the Buddhas.



Chen-re-zig manifests infinite forms; kings,
spiritual teachers, ordinary men and women, wild
animals, even mountains, trees, bridges – whatever
is necessary to fulfill sentient beings’ needs.

Even a cool breeze in scorching weather or
a soothing moment of relief during a
painful illness are manifestations of
Chen-re-zig’s compassion.

Similarly, Chen-re-zig’s Six-syllable mantra,
Om Ma-ni Pad-me Hum, is the compassionate
wisdom of all the Buddhas manifested as sound.

Within it is contained the essential meaning of all
eighty-four thousand sections of the Buddha’s
teachings. Of all the many mantras of various kinds,
such as
• awareness mantras,
• dharanis and
• secret mantras,
not one is superior to the six syllables of
Chen-re-zig. The great benefits of reciting this
mantra, commonly known as the Ma-ni, are described
again and again in both {the} sutras and tantras.

It is said that to recite the Ma-ni even once is
the same as reciting the whole of the twelve branches
of Buddha’s teachings. Reciting the six syllables
of the Ma-ni perfects the six Pa-ra-mi-tas and
firmly blocks any possibility of rebirth in the six
realms of Sam-sa-ra.

It is a simple practice, easy to understand and
accessible to all, and at the same time it contains
the essence of the Dha-rma.

If you take the Ma-ni as your refuge both in
happiness and in sorrow, Chen-re-zig will always
be with you, you will feel more and more devotion
without any effort, and all by itself the
realization of the Ma-ha-ya-na path will arise in
your being.



There is nothing in the whole world that can
actually frighten away the Lord of Death, but the
warm radiance of Chen-re-zig’s compassion can
completely dispel the dread felt by anyone as
Death approaches. This is what is meant by “undeceiving refuge.”

Totally free from Sam-sa-ra, Chen-re-zig is
always ready to help sentient beings, and even the
slightest movement – a gesture of his hand, a blink
of his eyes – has the power to free us from
Sam-sa-ra.

When we invoke him by reciting the Ma-ni, we
should never think that he is too far away to hear
us, in some distant Buddhafield… in truth his
compassion never forsakes a single being.

He manifests himself constantly in whatever form may
benefit beings most, particularly in the form of
great spiritual teachers; so we should understand
with complete conviction that Chen-re-zig, the
supreme protector who shows all sentient beings the
path to liberation, {could be} in fact none other
than our root teacher.



That is why my essays can find their way to your
computer at absolutely NO charge, that is why I’ve
made “Quick Path to Happy Peace,” and a devotional
image of Chen-re-zig available for FREE download,
that is why I’ve made the commentaries and explanations
available for only modest donations, that is why
your opportunity to make the most of this fantastic
opportunity that has been made available to you now



Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso
Tibetan-Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika


P.S. Remember, the live telephone teachings or
instructional CDs are actually my way of saying
“thank you” for the medium or small donation you
could make this month. And also bear in mind, that
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San Diego’s first “Buddha of Compassion
Monastery and Meditation Center.” The next
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counting on you.



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Forever is too Long to be Wrong

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Buddha’s Lost Secrets:
Tips on Meditation & the Spiritual path #201
from your Buddhism expert



Hello boys and girls, and welcome to Torquemada
central; where we track fear mongers so we can be
real sure not to fall for their slippery devices.



This afternoon I was standing at the sink, enjoying
Smooth Jazz on the radio, while doing the dishes.
Then I heard it. A fear monger had actually shelled
out plenty of peanuts to have his commercial
professionally produced. He then shelled out even
more denero to buy plenty of air time, late in
the afternoon, when fatigue and stress had suitably
softened-up the listeners, thus lowering their
resistance to his fear oriented commercial.



Vince Lombardi is famous for saying,

“Fatigue makes Cowards of us All”

and he was correct. That’s right kids, those fear
mongers sure can be whiley!



Yeah, this fear monger was extra sneaky. First he
began the commercial with a guest, giving his
testimonial in a way that made it sound like a
hospital or an insurance commercial.



FIRST the guest began by saying that one day he felt
great, but was at a loss to explain his strong sense
of dizziness or how he lost his ability to keep his
balance; even when doing something as mundane as
simply attempting to walk across the room. At the
urging of his devoted wife, he agreed to be taken to
the hospital. After examining him, the Neurologist
on call declared that they had,

“caught it just in time,”

but that if he had waited, it could have been fatal.



At this point it felt like an announcer would come
on and encourage all the listeners to heed all
neurological symptoms. But instead the guest then
emotionally uttered,

“I could have died, and I just wasn’t prepared for that…”

Then the announcer, a card carrying fear monger,
said,

“Forever is too Long to be Wrong!”

Which of course inferred eternal damnation for any
and all who fail to believe what he believes or
practice how he practices. Then he said,

“So if you need answers or guidance or
anything at all then come on down to
‘my’ Church”

Hmmmm, so let me see if I’ve got this straight. FIRST
the fear monger scares me, THEN he invites me to run
into his arms? Why? So he can manipulate me even
further? Why would I do that? So he can tell me what
to believe, and what to do and what to think?


Guys, fear is pain, fear is suffering. How could we
possibly trust someone who’s ethics are so dodgy that
not only would they pull a bait and switch, but
they’d deliberately cause us to suffer in the name
of winning our souls. If someone is
enthusiastically willing to emotionally injure vast
numbers of radio listeners, late in the afternoon,
when they’re tired, stressed and vulnerable then
what will he do to his congregation, no less the
poor bastard who actually stumbles into his office
for a “counseling” appointment?


A very famous Jew once scolded,

“You travel over land and sea to
win a single convert, and when
he becomes one, you make him twice as
much a son of hell as you are.”

Let’s not fall prey to the sticky webs, spun by our
friendly, neighborhood fear monger. Whether you fear
Jewish-hell, Christian-hell, Taoist-hell,
Hindu-hell or Buddhist-hell…fear is suffering and

Suffering Sucks!

I know! I’ve squandered decades of this life by
allowing myself to by pulled by the puppet strings
of the fear of hell. Listen, insuring a safe,
wonderful, auspicious rebirth is easy. That is why
I teach the Karmic Dynamo, so you can purify your
bad karma, so you can multiply your good karma, so
you can shed your selfish fear, so you can replace
it with something much better, so you can replace it
with devotion so you can add to it love, so you can
add to it bliss, so you can add to it peace so
reserve your copy now


But don’t dally. There are only 10 days left to take
advantage of this month’s discount and I’d hate for
you to miss out.



Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso
Tibetan-Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika


P.S. Remember, this live telephone teaching or
instructional CD is actually my way of saying
“thank you” for the medium or small donation you
could make this month. And also bear in mind, that
your donations are crucial to the founding of San
Diego’s first “Buddha of Compassion Monastery and
Meditation Center.” The next generation of American
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Masters of Minutia

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Buddha’s Lost Secrets:
Tips on Meditation & the Spiritual path #200
from your Buddhism expert



Have you met them? You know, the men and women who
fancy themselves as great masters of the
metaphysical.



I’ve known men and woman of this sort who
consistently and tragically miss the forest for the
trees. Have you ever met folks like this?



I’ve encountered folks who proudly boasted of
mastering the trivial art of:

Manifesting Parking Spaces.

I don’t know where you live, but here, in southern
California’s San Diego County, parking spaces can
really seem scarce, especially at special events,
especially at malls, especially at holiday time.



Yet I know a man and a woman who pride themselves on
always finding a great parking space in a minimum
amount of time. Yep, those two sure are good at
“manifesting” parking spaces.


Tragically, although those two are very
accomplished at “conjuring” parking spaces they are
absolute failures at manifesting truly abundant:
• vocational success,
• financial prosperity,
• romantic fulfillment,
• personal growth or
• spiritual accomplishment.



But why? How could this be? How is it that those who
can be so very successful at conjuring the trivial
could be abysmal failures at manifesting that which
is truly important?

Two Reasons

FIRST, like many others, that unfortunate pair are
clutching at methods of “manifestation” that are
very expensive… karmicly, that is.


Just as I explained in the essay, “The Devil’s gonna
Get ya, if you don’t Watch out!”, all our actions
have an energy signature, or in other words,
everything we do , say or choose:
• is influenced by our good and bad karma,
• taps into and “spends” our good and bad karma
and…
• generates even more good and bad karma.


Did you know that Good Karma can be a lot like cash?
Yep, typically the more you spend, the less you
have. So, could you see how very important it could
be to spend our good karma wisely?



Those two squandered their karmic-currency on petty,
trivial conveniences thus leaving their greater and
substantially more important needs unmet.


That is why the ancient Buddhist masters taught the
vital importance of working on our most challenging
and important needs first, that is why I emphasize
manifesting greater love, peace, wisdom and
happiness and that is why I offer “Quick Path to
Happy Peace” for FREE download.


OK my friend, I promised you two reasons why those
folks wound up in such dire straights. Yes, the
FIRST reason was that they squandered their
Good-karma unwisely upon trivial and truly
unimportant conveniences. But what could the SECOND
reason be?


Simple! Those two unfortunates chose Karmicly
EXPENSIVE methods of “manifestation.” Like so many
others, they chose methods that gobbled up their
Good-karma, like a Pac Man in the 1980’s video game.



Did you know I could teach you ways to:
• manifest even more peace and happiness
• as well as liberate yourself from sufferings...

in ways that actually increase your Good-karma as well as your:
• concentration,
• devotion,
• bliss,
• insight,
• peace and
• love?



That is why I teach the inner secrets of the Karmic Dynamo so you can purify your Bad-karma, so you can receive greater supernatural protection, so you can progress even faster upon Buddha’s path to enlightenment, so you can multiply your Good-fortune, so you can live the life you’ve always dreamed of.


But listen up kids, there are LESS then two weeks
left to reserve your copy of the Karmic Dynamo for
a substantial discount, so reserve yours today.



Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso
Tibetan-Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika


P.S. Remember, this live telephone teaching or
instructional CD is actually my way of saying
“thank you” for the medium or small donation you
could make this month. And also bear in mind, that
your donations are crucial to the founding of
San Diego’s first “Buddha of Compassion Monastery and
Meditation Center.” The next generation of American
nuns and monks are counting on you.



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The Proof of the Pudding is in the Tasting

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Buddha’s Lost Secrets:
Tips on Meditation & the Spiritual path #199
from your Buddhism expert



This is so cool! I was just wondering what I’d
write about next and then a very honest fellow
wrote me saying:

“I’m a little wary because some people
told me you were not who you say you are.”

Of course I could be a wise ass and write:

Just because some folks tell you I’m a “Big Mac”
doesn’t mean Mc Donald’s is going to serve me for
lunch!



But no, that is far too beneath me. I’d rather use
this opportunity to explore Buddha’s only standard
for evaluating a teacher.


In the Sutta of the Kalama’s Dilemma we read that
one day Lord Buddha was trucking down the road,
just grooving on the wonders of the present moment
with a handful of disciples; when the town fathers,
of the city of the Ka-la-mas, flagged them down.



Lord Buddha, they explained, we’s got a heap a
trouble! So many teachers with so many instructions
come through our town. All the teachers are
different and all the instructions are different but
they each have two things in common:

#1) They each Praise themselves and their doctrines
#2) and they each Denigrate all the other teachers
and their instructions!

Who are we to rely upon?


Buddha is so cool; instead of merely giving them a
quick, fortune-cookie answer and toddling off into
the sunset, he made real sure they got it. Before
telling them how they would know which teacher and
instruction to rely upon, he first told them how
they would NOT know which ones to embrace.



Lord Buddha enumerated an extensive list, but I’ll
just give you it’s essence. The Enlightened One
explained that you would NOT be able to identify
the most trustworthy teacher and instruction by:
• fame,
• popularity,
• prestige,
• logic,
• intuition,
• personal preference, or…
• convention.


Convention tells us that if we want to hire a
personal assistant we need to:
#1 put an ad in the paper,
#2 schedule three interviews, and
#3 be quite meticulous to check their;
A) Resume,
B) Credentials and
C) References.

But Lord Buddha, taught that it was NOT wise to rely
upon Convention! How then shall we know, really know,
whether or not a teacher and his instructions could
be effective at helping us to progress upon the
path of Love, Peace, Insight and Happiness?


Just as the British used to say,
“the proof of the pudding is in the tasting,”
and Jesus taught,
“you shall know a tree by it’s fruit,”
Lord Buddha explained that

it is the Efficacy of the Teachings that
Validates the Teacher.

Rather than hide behind a paper lion of resume,
credentials, references and reputation; a true
teacher will put his money where his mouth is.



So then, what are a true teacher’s resume,
credentials and references? They are simply his
Compassion and Insight as reflected by

the Power of his teachings to Heal the
hearts of his students.

Does that mean we gotta run around collecting
testimonials? Nope! You see, it’s simple!

#1 Find a teacher,
#2 receive his blessings,
#3 listen to his teachings and then…
#4 practice his instructions!


After you have practiced his teachings twice a day,
every day, for 90 days, with out:
negotiating, diluting or "improving” them; simply
notice your results. Are you more Loving, Peaceful
and Happy? Have you improved? Have you become more
of the happy camper you were born to be? Have you
become more of the wonderful person that your dog
already thinks you are?



Or, did you stay the same? Did you stagnate? Did you
get worse? After 90 days of practicing the
teachings, you have received, do you:
• dress in black,
• breath funny,
• carry a light saber and…
• do your friends call you, “Darth Vader?”



It’s easy. When selecting a teacher we have three
choices. The first extreme is to NOT judge your
teacher or his instructions, or what I like to
call, the Jonestown approach. That is when you
mindlessly do what ever the teacher instructs. Oh
please don’t choose that option.
And, while you’re at it, please don’t drink the
Kool Aid!



The second extreme is Prejudice. That is when we
allow the tyranny of our preconceptions to pre-judge
the teacher and his instructions. This foolish type
of pre judging is usually based on the superficial
preconceptions of:
• fame,
• popularity,
• prestige,
• logic,
• intuition,
• personal preference, or…
• convention;
which is exactly what Buddha warned us against!
Why could this be a foolish cause of action?

#1 It causes us to shut our selves off from any real
benefit that could be available through that teacher
or his instructions and…

#2 it completely disregards Buddha’s advice! Hey man,
if you sincerely feel that your way is better than
Buddha’s way, then I am clearly NOT the teacher for
you. And by the way, good luck!



Well then, if both failing to judge and pre-judging
the teacher are big, fat mistakes; what then is the
Buddha’s middle path between the two extremes?


Simple! Rather than NOT-judge or PRE-judge, the
fully enlightened one teaches us to simply postpone
judgment until the results of practicing the teacher's
instructions, twice daily, for 90 consecutive days…
manifests. Guys, this is a real easy deal to do.


This month I’ve been telling you about the teachings
of the Karmic Dynamo. Once you go to that page,
you’ll read of the many supernatural benefits from
this easy, 30 second practice. Now, instead of
asking you to believe either:
• the Buddha,
• the teacher of the first Dalai Lama
• or myself…
because let’s face it, believing is just attachment...


so, rather than asking you to believe the Buddha,
the teacher of the first Dalai Lama, or myself; just
run an experiment. It’s easy!



FIRST, get your hands on a copy of Karmic Dynamo,

SECOND, listen to the CD and really give it your
full attention.

THIRD, apply it’s instructions and explanations for
just 30 seconds twice a day, every day, for 90
consecutive days.

FOURTH, notice your results. Have you become happier
or crankier?

FIFTH, take action. If following the instructions
of this month’s CD have transformed you into a
cranky bastard then turn your back on me and never
read any of my essays ever again. But, if applying
the easy teachings of the Karmic Dynamo make you
even a little more loving, peaceful, happy,
fortunate and energetic then perhaps my
instructional CDs could be worthy of your attention.


Listen, there is nothing spiritual about suspicion,
preconception or ignoring Buddha’s advice. So take
advantage of this month’s special discount and put
my teachings to the test. You have nothing to lose but your
sufferings.



Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso
Tibetan-Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika


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