The Guru Drinks Bourbon?

It’s almost impossible to find a guru in this world at this time who has all the noble qualities of a Vajrayana master described in the ancient tantric texts. But in the Mahayana sutras the Buddha offered advice about what to do if we can’t find an authentic master. He said if you encounter a person who talks about buddha nature, such a person shou

It’s Joe’s karma, which goes beyond just choice, that will determine his path. Some people are more inclined to invest time and energy in pursuing that spark of spiritual inspiration, and others are more inclined to pursue the satisfaction of intellectual masturbation by reading Noam Chomsky.

Supplication to the Guru Praying to the guru is not necessarily a matter of chanting mantras or reading a supplication composed by others. The real prayer, on the relative level, is just thinking of the guru—his form, his name, his activities, his color, his shape, even his movement.

You don’t hear about great masters like Saraha becoming a leader of a big monastery or campaigning for world peace, human rights, and zero waste with goody-goody bumper stickers.

In the tantra, the guru is not accountable to the student. He is accountable only to his own karma. Transparency is not a tantric responsibility.

His spiritual life had nothing to do with the court, nothing to do with the nation.

You may be “happier” on a spiritual path that confirms your beliefs, values, ethics, and morality.

It would be very interesting to calculate how much destruction of the environment has been done by scientists and economists compared to the destruction caused by yogis and spiritual teachers.

If you are Israeli, no matter how fully devoted to your Tibetan master you are, the chance of you becoming a Tibetan in this life is zero, whereas tapping into your buddha nature and applying appropriate methods for waking yourself up from delusion and reaching enlightenment are very possible. There is no right and wrong here.