Giving Up the Guru

Giving Up the Guru

Date Posted:
June 2006

A student wrote confessing that she had given up going to teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa after having become very attached to another lama. Rinpoche wrote her back as follows.

Thank you very much for your kind letter.
According to my observations, if you can, do these practices:

  • 200,000 Vajrasattva mantras
  • 100,000 prostrations to the Thirty-five Buddhas

If I say to do them based on bodhicitta, that may be too nice for you. So I will say to do them with a strong thought of impermanence and death. If I say “bodhicitta,” maybe it will be too comfortable.

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