What are blessings?

That is what I understand by blessing. So this blessing, when you say blessing, there is nothing to be seen. But there is something to be received. That is what I feel. I sometimes feel that children and parent are together, although parents do not do anything specific, the children feel confident and protected in a certain way. I feel that is a kind of blessing.

So when you receive blessing from teacher or lama, this is something that happens in my life also. Sometimes I have disturbed state of mind, lots of things going on in my mind, and then I go to see one of the lamas or teachers. After discussing things, being with him for a while, without doing anything special, when I return, my mind is peaceful and all the disturbances are pacified, I feel good, relieved, in peace. I feel that this is blessing. 

This is a kind of blessing, when a lama has lots of kindness, compassion, and positive qualities; somehow, students, slowly, step by step, absorb those qualities in themselves. I feel that this is blessing. I do not know of any other blessing than that. If someone else has something else that is called blessing, some object that you can give someone, than I do not know about that.

HH, 17^th Karmapa
Ogyen Trinley Dorje

From Kamashila
Short-Ngon-dro teaching
Germany, 2014