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Faith Hahn • 5 cards
From a strict tantric point of view, if you perceive your teacher as a human being who has weight and height, you have already broken several samayas—especially if you pass judgment, such as thinking that one hundred kilos is too heavy and the guru needs to go on a diet.
Jamyang Khyentse • The Guru Drinks Bourbon?
Spiritual
Faith Hahn • 2 cards
The heaven, earth, and human principle comes from the Chinese tradition,
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
lovingkindness
Mary Martin • 1 card
You are just trying to be yourself and express yourself in a very, very simple, meditative, and nonaggressive Buddhist way.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
mindbody
ariel • 1 card
The supreme wisdom ḍākinī who serves as a yidam (iṣṭa-devatā) of the higher tantras is Vajrayoginī, “the personification of vajra emptiness.”55 Yidam is a shortened form of yid-kyi-damtsik, or sacred bondage of the mind. The practice of the yidam deity in her or his maṇḍala is what binds the practitioner irrevocably to the enlightened sanity within
... See moreJudith Simmer-Brown • Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
Being a guru is not a profession, especially in the Vajrayana. There is no standardized teacher ’s training that ends with a certificate of completion. There is no office where you can go to apply to be a vajra master, no application to fill out. There is no rule book.