To become a dharma teacher
Dear Rinpoche
with all the different mantras and yidams it is sometimes difficult for me to choose a steady practice, being that I do not have access to a lama directly. So my question is; what mantra should be my main mantra for someone who wishes to learn and eventually teach the holy Dharma?
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Dear Rafael,
Many greetings, good wishes and sincere hopes in you….
1. There are many yidams, meditations, practices, accomplishments, mantras and paths as set forth by the Perfect Buddha. They were all meant to suit a type of mind to be subdued at a certain time and place. Are all are equal to attainments from their side. From our side according to time, place, needs, level and merits, they can differ.
2. One who wishes to teach the dharma will be aspiring to highest form of giving. The most supreme among the best. If the perfect Buddha never spoke, there would be no path, no antidote, no method, no end and no recognition of need to escape. Hence teaching is the actual method to give the most supreme of refuges which is dharma.
3. One who has the aspiration to teach must have the three doors subdued starting now, mind filled with compassion, knowledge of the dharma coupled with skilfull means and endless enthusiasm to encounter difficulties for others. The genuine mind to endure many difficulties for others in order to bring them the words and examples to full liberation will enlighten many or at least plant karmic seeds in their mindstreams for when Maitreya appears.
For such a virtuous individual one can engage in the intense practice of Guru Yoga of Tsongkapa which bestows the 7 wisdoms including: powerful memory, skilfull debate, composition, penetrating insight and the likes. After reciting migtseyma twenty-one times concentrate on Om Ah Ra Baza Nadee daily. Afterwards Dissolution of Wisdom Tsongkapa at the end of the session into your heart centre through central channel will be a powerful blessing to invoke daily. A powerful practice that is simple and requires no initiation.
In short, eat Tsongkapa, breathe Tsongakapa, think Tsongkapa, meditate Tsongakapa, become Tsongakapa, sleep Tsongkapa and attain the wondrous blessings within this supremes system practiced for 600 years by the tens of thousands of attained Tulkus, learned Geshes, Mahasiddhas, senior monks of Gaden, Sera, Drepung, Tashilunpo, Amdo Tashi Kyil, Gyuto and Gyurme. The practice of Wisdom Tsongkapa has created luminaries like the Dalai Lamas, Panchen Lamas, Jamyang Konchok Shepas, Trijang Rinpoches, Pabongka Rinpoches, Gaden Tripas, etc etc…by engaging in this practice steadfast and consistently you will be following in the footsteps of thousands of attained luminaries as stated above. You will be following a fautless and proven practice.
Lord Tsongkapa, King of the Three Realms, who is no other than the fully combined wisdom of Buddhas of three times and ten directions can only bring benefit. This should be practiced by a virtuous being like you who wishes to illuminate the dharma to many others in the future. Tsongakpa’s the perfect yidam for someone who aspires for the perfect results without many commitments at the moment yet wishes to engage in a profound practice.
Good luck!!
Tsem Rinpoche
Kechara World Peace Centre
(Question asked by Rafael from: http://blog.tsemtulku.com/
We are extremely fortunate to be able to connect with LamaTsongkhapa’s practice in this life. As told in Rinpoche’s book, Gurus For Hire, all 84,000 of the Buddha’s Teachings are seeded within the Guru Yoga of Lama Tsongkhapa. When we practice the Guru Yoga properly, we open a channel to connect with the Buddha and nurture the seed of Buddhahood that is within us. So many benefits within a short concise practice. It’s truly the best break we can hope to get in life.
Thank you for the practice Rinpoche.
After finished read through this article I am realized that become a dharma teacher or I want to teach dharma it not so easy only teach. The most important part or be consider most difficult part is must know how to GIVING.
GIVING not only material such as money, or your asset, there can be your emotional, your feeling…one person I find out he really practice GIVING very perfectly is Rinpoche. I had followed around 3 years, I used my own eyes saw how Rinpoche practice GIVING, it is really, really, really amazing!!!
Dharma teacher not only teach….
I like Lama Tsongkhapa teaching because he emphasize on education. Through education only, we able to understand the Buddha’s teaching, through education, we understand the meaning of the tantric etc.
A Dharma teacher is very hard to be, i always admire who teach Dharma. To me, is too hard, 1st criteria- strong memory. 2nd- able to understand the Dharma properly , 3rd- able to use the Dharma in daily life, while interact with people etc, 4th- as role model, 5th- able to understand and catch what is the root cause of the student thought/ people point of view. In my point of view, A Dharma teacher is the one who can reach enlightenment real fast, because he/she really have to learn the Dharma into heart and practice Dharma in day to day activities. Is like what H.E Tsem Rinpoche said : “In short, eat Tsongkapa, breathe Tsongakapa, think Tsongkapa, meditate Tsongakapa, become Tsongakapa, sleep Tsongkapa
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when Rinpoche says ‘One who wishes to teach the dharma will be aspiring to highest form of giving.’ This statement really make me think deeply within myself, as all the while we are being taught to be Giving, giving care, giving kindness, giving material and wealth to help others, giving help for some one in need, that is what the social standard of giving has been define. Not until today after reading this, that i now realize Teaching Dharma is the highest form of giving, Because when one’s teaches the Dharma to others, the teacher is helping others to transform themself, offering an effective solution to heal the disease of the person right to the core.
When one give Dharma to others, it is the best gift ever to ourself and others, because Dharma is the applicable, logical and most profound philosophy of life that liberate oneself from suffering of samsara. Like what Rinpoche mention ‘If the perfect Buddha never spoke, there would be no path, no antidote, no method, no end and no recognition of need to escape.’
Rinpoche has given the recipe that is proven and time tested, and Rinpoche is one perfect example of a great Dharma Teacher with compassion, knowledgeable in dharma and posses the skilfull means and endless enthusiasm to encounter difficulties for others to teach us Dharma. If we follow this ‘recipe’ we will become a knowledgeable and experience Dharma Teacher that can benefit others.
Thank you Rinpoche for explaining this wonderful practice and the necessary requirement for one to become a Dharma Teacher.
With folded hand.
At our present level, it is said that one who aspires to be teacher for Dharma must have the consecutive wisdom of Learning, Thinking, Meditation. The first step towards the learning process is studying and listening to the Dharma consistently. It is said that we should not be complacent to hearing it again and again as many times as possible, and then meditate on them- the more times the better for our understanding. As each time we attend a teaching we gain a new understanding, even if we were already familar. Tis was said by many Lamas that if you attend teachings frequently, you will understand something new. That is said to be a “gift” from our teacher, any time we hear a teaching we can learn some new way to understand it, and bridge the distance between its message and with our mind. Tis serves as a key to the great awakening – which should blend toether into each other; that should be our goal. Our purpose to study Dharma is to expose and uproot our negative mental states. Keypoint is to have the correct motivation when we listen to a teaching of dharma – once the correct motivation is adopted, listening and studying will be easy at all times! “Lord Tsongkhapa, King of the three Realms, is the perfect Yidam for anyone who aspires for the perfect results to engage in a profound practice” as directed by our Tsem Rinpoche.
Also to apply and practice what we learn from this blog, the youtube, the Lamrim text, and to see how it transform our mind to the better.
Future tense is senseless. Wishes for the future is unsure. Be what you wish now. No one controls your body, speech and mind. So you don’t need to transform your body speech and mind in the future. Fortitude and tenacity is achievable now. if you don’t achieve it-then it is a choice. Pick the right choices. In real dharma with real dharma friends and real dharma work and real dharma environment, there is no future tense. We may not even be alive tomorrow. It is now. Your body, speech and mind is controlled by you..so don’t blame a third person that is fictitious. Don’t make your teacher a liar and Buddha not real..be here and now. Have the qualities now. You are in control of yourself. Your teacher is not a liar and there is a Buddha…Sarva Mangalam….Tsem Rinpoche