“The Kagyu lineage being broken will be by students who are not suitable, qualified "vessels", meeting gurus who lack realizations and thus they are unable to see the guru as a Buddha.” ---8th Karmapa, One Hundred Instructions “The greatly intelligent obey the guru's commands with effort and joy, but if unable, explain to them their… Continue reading WHEN AND HOW TO SAY “NO” TO A QUALIFIED GURU’S COMMANDS: Fulfilling and not fulfilling a guru’s command with reasons, the Marpa-Milarepa relationship, no distinction between worldly and Dharma for a qualified guru. 1st Karmapa’s “toilet relics” and stories of well-known masters who disobeyed their gurus (Fifty Verses on the Guru, 17th Karmapa, Day 9, 2025)
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THE ORIGINAL ‘MOTHER’ OF THE KARMA KAGYU FOUR-SESSION GURU YOGA: Lama Zhang’s four-session guru yoga, the vajra words of the dakinis, pure visions of 8th Karmapa and his students, and Karma Chagme’s texts on its practice and origin (17th Karmapa, Spring 2023 teachings, Day 11, part 2)
""The root Guru, Mikyo Dorje is thought to be in nature truly Avalokiteshvara, and one in essence with the eight forms of the guru, the eight Zhangs; and the embodiment of the eight Karmapas, From a sealed text of the Collected Works of Zhang Even though a little is added to it, Mikyo Dorje wrote… Continue reading THE ORIGINAL ‘MOTHER’ OF THE KARMA KAGYU FOUR-SESSION GURU YOGA: Lama Zhang’s four-session guru yoga, the vajra words of the dakinis, pure visions of 8th Karmapa and his students, and Karma Chagme’s texts on its practice and origin (17th Karmapa, Spring 2023 teachings, Day 11, part 2)
Suffering is ‘ready and waiting to happen’: The three types of suffering, being a Dharma practitioner and ‘Dharma going on the Path’. ‘Four Dharmas of Gampopa’ by 17th Karmapa (Day VII)
“For the 'Dharma to go along with Dharma', month by month, and year by year, as you practice, your mental continuum will become softer and softer, your afflictions will get smaller and smaller. Not just from your thinking, but from your very depths, you will be able to accept defeat again and again. Your character… Continue reading Suffering is ‘ready and waiting to happen’: The three types of suffering, being a Dharma practitioner and ‘Dharma going on the Path’. ‘Four Dharmas of Gampopa’ by 17th Karmapa (Day VII)