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Especially for beginners, choosing a guru who has taken a vow as a monk or a nun is often a safe option with fewer loopholes.
Jamyang Khyentse • The Guru Drinks Bourbon?
The Dalai Lama also puts it very beautifully: “Regard all living beings like they’re our mother.”
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
First: Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Being Peace: Classic teachings from the world's most revered meditation master
It sounds as if you are referring to Trungpa Rinpoche.
Ngakpa Chogyam • Entering the Heart of the Sun and Moon
When we see our teacher as a buddha, that is a mark of the evolution of our Vajrayana practice
Reginald A. Ray • In the Presence of Masters: Wisdom from 30 Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
The monks sat wherever they wanted to sit. They sang the Heart Sutra. The curtain closed. And His Holiness the Dalai Lama came up to me and held me in his arms. “You’ve done a wonderful thing,” he told me. “We are so happy; everybody is happy.”
Marina Abramovic • Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
It’s not as if all those institutionalized gurus are bad; many of them are really extraordinary.
Jamyang Khyentse • The Guru Drinks Bourbon?
Only to the degree we as parents are attuned to our own being will we know how to help our children attune themselves to their unique essence.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama • The Conscious Parent
And if the guru’s instructions can somehow give you a glimpse of the nature of your mind, then he or she is definitely your root guru.