Sublime

But if you have strong feelings about how a guru should behave, you may not be fit for tantra.

The guru is on the path to enlightenment, same as you, but he or she must have more realized qualities of knowledge and realization.

Tibetan teaching The Mahayana Instructions on the Seven Points of Mind Training (theg pa chenpo’ i gdams ngag blo sbyong don bdun ma bzhugs so) by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje. This work belongs to the class of teachings called lojong. We all have a mind (lo), and this mind is always undergoing training (jong).

Seng-tsan

and other—is the heart of lojong, and the heart of the Seven Points. In fact, Jamgon Kongtrul goes so far as to say that “other approaches to mind training are mere elaborations” of the exchange of self and other.

with everyone. Therefore they never shy away from manifesting their full potential. The more our orientation shifts toward the well-being of others—and away from catering to the persistent but stupid rascal in our heart—the more we will experience the deep peace and joy of the Buddha’s wisdom.

But their minds are full of peace because they are free from self-importance.

The ḍākinī must also test the confidence of the practitioner to discover whether he or she has sufficient personal conviction in inherent wakefulness, a prerequisite for tantric realization.

by making the effort not to step on or over a text in itself accumulates a great deal of merit.