Teaching Excerpts – Page 5 – Kunzang Palchen Ling

Relax In Your Kleshas

In the great perfection teachings it’s often said, “The more thoughts and kleshas that arise, the more wisdom will arise.” The reason for this is that if you have gained some stability in awareness, the […]

Ignore the Flaws of Others (Pay Attention to Your Own)

Wherever you go, you will find that others have kleshas. You will never encounter anyone who does not have kleshas. Although, the proportions can vary in each case, everybody has got them. So you cannot […]

We Take Responsibility On Ourselves

The most common analogy for buddha nature is that it is like the innate potential a seed has to grow into or produce its particular fruit. In the same way as a particular seed has […]

The Medium of Intimacy

A key point to understand […] is that your root guru and Guru Rinpoche are responsive to prayer. Do not think that you are praying as a mental exercise with the sole purpose of cultivating […]

We Are Worthy of It

…through the nature of the times we live in, and through the aspirations of Guru Rinpoche, even though we live in a time which by some standards is degenerate, the teachings of secret mantra, by […]

Samaya

The vajrayana vow, samaya, is even more difficult to keep than the bodhisattva vow. Because the vajrayana vow of samaya is so stringent, someone who undertakes it can only achieve one of two fates. Once […]

Buddhas Become Buddhas Through Benevolence

We will only ever get what we want through concern for others. As long as we remain limited to concern for ourselves we will never, ever, get what we want. This is why it is […]

Eight-Inch Nails

Jetsun Milarepa, in one of his songs, sang: “There are three nails to meditation. If I explain them: the first is that thoughts are the dharmakaya. The second is that awareness is lucidity. The third […]

Recognize the Unity of Your Root Guru and Guru Rinpoche

We do need to recognize that our root guru and Guru Rinpoche are not two different individuals or two different things. We need to meditate on their inseparability or their unity. And if we don’t […]

Unreserved Entrustment

The next four lines of this song make a point that is of incredibly great importance for any vajrayana practitioner. In the first line he says: Unbearably intense longing and devotion blazed. So, he [Terchen […]