The Living Journal - Calling Gurus From Afar

Calling Gurus from afar.
The journey of finding our inspirational home. A Home for our refuge and a home for the ultimate blessing from our Gurus.
Namo Guru pheh, Karmapa khenno, Lama Khenno.

So, before starting any practice, look and search for a teacher, master and firmly decide to follow and learn from him, even if it takes a lifetime. Before reaching a decision about the Guru to follow, always verify his credentials and this is a simple procedure.

Hence, if it's so happens that one is unable to find a teacher, it is then acceptable for you to accept a teacher whose one good quality is compassion, because the essential one is that the teacher must have an awakened mind, Bodhichitta to all living beings.

Calling and invoking the Guru's blessing is devotion inspired by disenchantment and renunciation, not as mere platitude, but from the core of our heart, from the very marrow of our bones. Calling our Gurus with the confidence of having resolved that our own Guru is none other than Awakened one.

Guru, think of us, kind root guru.
Think of us, essence of the Buddhas of three times. 
Guru think of us, great treasure of blessing and compassion.
Guru of boundless light, think of us.
Regard us from the expanse of the unobstructed Dharmakaya.

Lead us wandering through samsara because of our evil actions.
Guru think of us, to rebirth in your pure land of great bliss.

Guru mighty Avalokistesvara, think of us.
Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhawa, think of us. 
As we are in the dark age, protect us your helpless disciples with your swift compassion, free us from the ocean of existence into the great city of liberation.

Mighty lord of this world, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa. 
Karmapa khenno , Karmapa khenno, Karmapa khenno, think of us.
Regard us from the all-pervading realm of taming beings.
Make us to realize that all phenomena are false, mere illusions.
Lineage Gurus, His Holiness Karmapa Khenno, karmapa Khenno Karmapa Khenno, think of us. Look upon us with compassion.
Bless us that our human life may become meaningful.  

Lama Khenno, Guru think of us, guides us to differentiate between right and wrong, what to give up and what to hold on to, guides us without holding anything back. Guru think of us, point out the exact nature of both thoroughly polluted and fully pure phenomena. Gurus, you are spiritually accomplished, full of compassion, loving kindness, patient, dauntless and eloquent. 

When you are choosing to practice the Dharma it is important to be even more selective about the practice and the teacher, because the goal is Buddha hood, not transportation. Whether or not the teacher is authentic does not depend upon the ability to quote from Buddhist texts. You should analyze his words and actions, Quoted by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

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Aspiration For Bodhichitta

Jang Chub Sem Chog Rinpoche

Ma Kye Pa Nam Kye Gyur Chiang

Kye Pa Nyam Par Mey Pa Yang

Gong Nay Gong Du Phel War Shog.

May the precious Bodhichitta arise

Where it has not arisen

And where it has arisen may it not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit
So nam di yi tham chay zig pa nyi
Thob nay nye pa'i dra nam pham jay nay
Kye ga na chi'i ba lab thrug pa yi
Si pa'i tso lay dro war drol war shog.

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.