If you have emotions, but because
you are supposed to be Dharma practitioner, you do not show or express these
emotions, because you are embarrassed to express them, because you are supposed
to be a Dharma practitioner, but you have not actually worked on them, so you
keep on having them. So then people react by trying to suppress this, thinking
“I am Dharma practitioner, I should not be angry, I should not be like this”.
Instead of using methods to work on these emotions, the practitioner tries to
pretend that these emotions do not exist. That is unnecessary – that is not the
right way to practice.
That does not mean that you
should give yourself free reign to express all emotions that come up. Then you
become totally out of control. But we need to work on our emotions, slowly,
step by step, work on the emotions and learn how to control them.
I think that we should have some
kind of a dialogue with our negative emotions. We should relate to them, we
should identify them, understand them, because we do not recognize our own
emotions.
His Holiness, 17th
Gyalwang Karmapa
Ogyen Trinley Dorje
That does not mean that you
should give yourself free reign to express all emotions that come up. Then you
become totally out of control. But we need to work on our emotions, slowly,
step by step, work on the emotions and learn how to control them.
Sometimes, people think that
because we are practitioner of Dharma, we shouldn't have emotions. But it is clear that some practitioners have emotions –
sometimes short-tempered, jealous, sometimes too much attachment. So when
people see this, they comment – “you are Dharma practitioner, how can you be
like that, how can you be angry, how can be jealous?” 
It is also important to understand the purpose and reasons for
serving the guru. For example, when bees collect pollen from flowers, they know
exactly what their task is and they do it perfectly. In this example, the guru
is like the flower and the captivating qualities of the guru’s mind are like
the pollen that must be retrieved. Moreover, when bees collect pollen from
flowers, the colour of the flower is irrelevant, nor does it matter if the
flower is beautiful or not. The most important thing is the pollen that they
need to obtain. 
1. Do not think of the guru’s
faults.
But actually there are different types of individuals with varying capacities, and in particular there are those people who are appropriate vessels for practicing the Secret Mantra Vajrayana. Such people should be able to practice according to all the special instructions that are given in the text. 
The world that we live in, we
should not be exploiting it for some temporary benefit now, but we should
consider it our mother. The mother who has given us all well-being and all the
necessary conditions for living, we need to nurture that mother, take care of
her, rather than just consider that she is a material thing that we can always
take from and use up. 