The kindness of the teacher is
not just to free the student from gross problems and pains and sufferings. It
is not only to give students happiness, pleasure, or success, worldly kinds of
progress. These things may be temporarily seem like happiness or success, but
eventually, these are also source of suffering. Therefore, when teachers, the
true kindness of the teacher, what they really wish for the students is to go
to the root cause, the seed of the sufferings, the teacher wishes to really
uproot the cause and the seed of the sufferings – the kleshas and ignorance.
That’s what the teacher’s intention is. And the students should know that, when
you receive instructions, guidance, what the teacher is mainly focusing on is
how to decrease, uproot, completely sever the root of the causes of sufferings.
That is how all instructions and guidance should be seen.
HH, 17th Karmapa
Ogyen Trinley Dorje
Ogyen Trinley Dorje
From Kamashila
Short-Ngon-dro teaching
Germany, 2014
Short-Ngon-dro teaching
Germany, 2014
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