A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher by Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang

Author:Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala

Meditate on these three links and prayer, focusing first on the higher realms and so on (that is, happiness as the result), and then on faith and so on (that is, the causes of happiness). And say to yourself, “From this day on, both in my thoughts and in my actions I must help them all equally. As much as I think about us all attaining the level of buddhahood together, I must do everything I can to achieve this.”

Dispelling Suffering Together

We also need to dispel suffering: “Wherever there is space, it is filled with sentient beings, and wherever there are sentient beings, they are immersed in karmic perceptions and suffering. Of all these beings, who have been tormented throughout time without beginning by karmic perceptions and suffering, there are none who have not been my mother, my father, and so on. And among them, there is not a single one who has not been the dearest to my heart, my own mother. She has not been my mother just this once; the number of times she has been my mother is inconceivable, and were we to take this whole earth and use it to roll balls the size of juniper berries, we would run out of earth before there was any end to the number of times one sentient being had been the mother of another. And all the while, as our mothers, they devoted themselves exclusively to caring for us with kindness.”

Then remember their kindness while they have been your mothers: first, the kindness of producing your body; second, the kindness of giving you life; third, the kindness of providing all your material needs; and fourth, the kindness of teaching you the ways of the world.

Next arouse the wish to repay that kindness. All that these beings want is happiness and yet they do not realize that its very causes are positive actions and following the correct path. They do not have a teacher, and they would not properly carry out what a spiritual friend told them anyway. They do not have any happiness, neither the happiness of the higher realms of gods and humans nor the bliss of perfect buddhahood. They do not want suffering, and yet they are harmed directly by suffering—the three sufferings of the three worlds of samsara—and indirectly by the causes of suffering—karma and negative emotions.

Focusing on these beings and seeing them all as equal in that they are our mothers, meditate on impartiality. Focusing on their lack of happiness and wishing for them both happiness and its causes, meditate on love. Focusing on their having both suffering and its causes and wishing for them freedom from both suffering and its causes, meditate on compassion. Since we are mother and child, and children should be concerned for their mothers’ well-being, meditate on sympathetic joy: when mother beings do manage to achieve some happiness for themselves without our needing to get involved, how could we possibly be jealous and fail to rejoice? Be joyful, considering how delighted they are, how much they need it, and how they cannot do without it.

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