Following the Buddhist Path

Following the Buddhist Path

Date Posted:
November 2010

A new student wrote to Rinpoche for advice on how to follow the Buddhist path. The student described how his life had changed direction after reading the Sanghata Sutra three months earlier.

My very dear one,
You must have created past karma to meet the Buddhadharma and it has ripened. I checked, and according to my observations, you have the best karma with the Buddhist path. There are three levels of Buddhism: the lower vehicle path, the Paramitayana path, and the Mahayana Tantra path. These different levels are all for one thing, one goal—to achieve enlightenment. Whether it is difficult or not, and how long it takes, is up to you, up to your own mind. It depends on how much you understand Buddhism and how correctly and skillfully you practice. Even though you can achieve realizations in a short time, it is always a good idea, a good skill, to cheat the mind by thinking: “I am going to practice, even if takes me eons and many hundreds of lifetimes.”

I am sending you some Dharma books for you to study and share with others. It would also be very good if you could try to get these other books to read:

With much love and prayers ...