2. See the teacher of Dharma as a physician.
This means that just as when one sees one's self as someone who is incurably ill, and in order to seek freedom from their illness, would enthusiastically seek the assistance of a physician and follow all of orders and prescriptions without fail, suffering as we do from the incurable illness of samsara,
we seek the attention of the spiritual friend, and with great enthusiasm, we follow his or her instructions, willing to follow any of their Dharma instructions, because they will make us better.
His Holiness, 17th Gyalwang Karmapa
This means that just as when one sees one's self as someone who is incurably ill, and in order to seek freedom from their illness, would enthusiastically seek the assistance of a physician and follow all of orders and prescriptions without fail, suffering as we do from the incurable illness of samsara, we seek the attention of the spiritual friend, and with great enthusiasm, we follow his or her instructions, willing to follow any of their Dharma instructions, because they will make us better.
His Holiness, 17th Gyalwang Karmapa
Ogyen Trinley Dorje
From teaching on Torch of Certainty
by Jamgon Lodro Thaye
by Jamgon Lodro Thaye
at 31st Kagyu Monlam
Session 3
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