Heavy Karma of Criticizing the Guru

Heavy Karma of Criticizing the Guru

Date of Advice:
July 2009
Date Posted:
July 2013

Rinpoche sent this handwritten card and a gift to a student who had confessed to another spiritual teacher regarding some issues she had with him.

My dearest one,
Here I am offering you a wish-granting jewel to put on the top of your mandala. HA HA HO. Please enjoy it, and use it to achieve full enlightenment and to fulfill the wishes of all numberless sentient beings in each realm. Then their happiness is not just pizza or ice-cream pleasure or beach pleasure, not just Western pleasure.

I am very happy you got devotion back for your teacher and he is happy with you. You have confessed to him, which is the most important thing to do right away, to purify all the bad thoughts, heresy, anger and so forth. Criticizing him for a few years is very, very heavy karma.

If we really knew the results of that, the extremely heavy suffering of the lower realms, we would be unconscious, we would fall down. So now it is very good [to purify] that relationship.

Wow, you are so lucky. I hope you will have an easy life and that every life will be better and better and you will be able to achieve enlightenment.

Thank you, I just want to present this for you.

With much love and prayer…