What if the guru “lost contact”?

Therefore, you should not worry about nothing. You should focus on your own practice and study hard.

Master: If you really want to help me, just practice well in the way I teach you and act like a practitioner. Only then will "helping me" help enough. Otherwise, all the "worrying" you keep saying is just adding to the chaos.

I am willing to accept that the way my disciples care about me and worry about me is that you follow the teachings diligently. I don’t need any other care.

One day, I asked my master: "When will my heart be like this valley?" I can clearly describe the animals, bugs, and even plants and trees inside, and I can also understand their joys and sorrows! ”

The master replied: "When you really have them in your heart. ”

“You will bless me, right! ” I asked again.

“Yes, I will bless you to be in harmony with me! ” The master also said, "If practitioners can be like Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva with Thousand Arms and Thousand Eyes, focusing our eyes and hearts on all sentient beings at all times, then gradually, like Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, we will be able to understand the thoughts, joys and sufferings of all sentient beings.…… ”

A life like this was already very confusing, but he finally had the opportunity to change, but he chose to "escape" because his little righteousness could not survive his troubles. He did not dare to face the guru calmly, and did not have the courage to face his own "ugliness", which made his obsession even more serious. In fact, what saddens me the most is - I don't know how long he has to wait in this long cycle of reincarnation before he has another chance to come out.……

Master: Yes, that’s true.

Master: That’s not the case. This point must be discussed separately in terms of “supermundane practice” and “mundane work and study”.

For example, when Lama Rinpoche was 18 years old, his mother supported him as an attendant to Changgen Ari Rinpoche. From then on, he developed supreme confidence in Changgen Ari Rinpoche and vowed to always rely on him and never leave his guru. When the master went to the mountains to practice, the living conditions were extremely difficult. He saved his own money to support the master. ； During the Cultural Revolution, the guru had inconvenient legs and feet, so he carried the guru on his back for hundreds of miles. When the guru was criticized, he used his own body to block every whip and stick for the guru, desperately protecting the guru. It was precisely because of his utmost sincerity towards his guru that the Dharma became more integrated into his continuum. The guru’s wisdom and enlightenment were poured from the guru’s bottle into his own, which made him and his guru finally become one and the same, becoming a perfect disciple of Changgen Ari Rinpoche.

But in worldly work and study, you can't get something for nothing by "praying to the guru." When you encounter a lot of troubles or you can't persevere, praying for the guru's blessing will make you more energetic and motivated to accomplish things that you may not have been able to accomplish on your own before. It can also be understood this way: the blessing of a guru can be like teaching you a "plan", but you have to do it yourself. ； Or the guru's blessing will demonstrate to you an "attitude towards people and things", and then it will be up to you to apply the guru's teachings to actual work and life.

Guru: Therefore, praying to the guru requires continuous practice. No matter in practice or daily life, especially when you encounter setbacks, you should consciously and spontaneously pray to the guru, and truly regard the guru as your support. Only through repeated practice can the guru's blessings be naturally integrated into your continuum.

That way, even if impermanence suddenly strikes one day, since the guru's blessing has been integrated into your continuity, it is impossible for you to lose the guru's blessing.； On the other hand, if you just pray occasionally, I'm afraid you won't find that feeling.

Guru:If you don’t have the Dharma in your heart, it will be really scary when impermanence suddenly comes.； But if you have the Dharma in your heart, for example, you can meditate on the "Four Aversions" every day - "the rarity of the human body", "the impermanence of life", "the faults of reincarnation" and "the cause and effect of karma", especially the "impermanence", then you will be very calm.

I have sent a push before（Related reading:《Love sealed in the heart》），It talks about "relying" on the guru rather than "depending on" the guru. The reason is: the backbone of "relying on the guru" is to rely on the Dharma taught by the guru, rather than being attached to the guru himself. People are subject to impermanence. What if the guru is also impermanent? …… Therefore, if you keep your feelings for your guru outside, your practice will always be outside.

Therefore, to truly rely on the guru is to seal the gratitude for the guru in your heart. Then even if the guru is not around you, no matter you are in a quiet mountain forest, at home, or in a noisy crowd, when you pray to the guru constantly, his blessings will always be with you.

Guru: Yes. An Ake was ill and went home to visit his parents. His mother used to recite the Guanyin Mantra diligently every day, prostrated herself, turned her prayer wheel, and often observed the eight fasts. His father had also been in seclusion for a long time. However, due to concerns about his health, his parents' good practice was interrupted, so Ake decided to leave home.

Master: In fact, Ake loves his parents very much in his heart, but for monks, parents are not only relatives, but also sentient beings.

You have to know that the role of a guru is to help all living beings, including their closest relatives and disciples, to deal with their worries and get out of reincarnation. If it does not benefit them, but instead becomes the cause of their distractions, worries, or even obstacles or obstacles in their practice, then I would not be willing to accept it.……