Question: Yesterday Rinpoche spoke about different levels of the guru. When one receives the empowerments in Guru Yoga practice, are there different levels of empowerment corresponding to this? Please explain how to receive the empowerments from the guru in the practice of Guru Yoga.? Garchen Rinpoche: There is no separate empowerment for the Guru Yoga […]
At the command of Kyabje Garchen Triptrül Rinpoche Disclosure of the fourteen fundamental mantric downfalls: The vajra holders have taught that accomplishments follow after the master. Because of that, to mistreat the master is explained as the first fundamental downfall. To transgress the commands of Those Gone to Bliss is said to be the second […]
For the sake of all the sentient beings, one must see the truth, and eliminate this clinging to the self of the person and the self of the phenomena. Most of the time, our inspiration and devotion are very emotionally oriented. To do that, one has to have tsültrim, discipline, and then one must hear […]
Question: Rinpoche, you often mention the importance of compassion and love as the essence of practice and realization. How do we cultivate it without it being contrived? I have been taught that compassion is a naturally arising quality of the spontaneous nature of mind, so is it more important to spend time trying to rest […]
Question:Â Â Rinpoche, I would like to sleep less so that I could have more time to practice. I don’t want to waste this precious life! I have chronic illness that leaves me so fatigued that I am unable to concentrate my mind. I become very dopey and drowsy. Do I just have to accept that this […]
Question: If one has recited many prayers, praises, offerings, and supplications to the guru in order to arouse and cultivate devotion, what is the best way to practice during the mantra recitation? Should one, for example, put aside thinking about the qualities of the guru and focus more on maintaining the clarity of the visualization […]
Question: Could Rinpoche please explain the “mahamudra of devotion” in relation to Guru Yoga practice? How does one approach this? Garchen Rinpoche: When you realize that your own mind and the mind of the guru are one, then you have uncontrived devotion. First, we give rise to devotion by thinking of the guru’s qualities, even […]
