如何选择导师？再谈信心｜How Do We Choose A Guru? Let’s Talk About the ...

颂云：“当知胜义俱生智 ，唯依积资净障力，具证上师之加持，依止他法诚愚痴。”上师乃一切加持之来源，胜共悉地之根本，遣除违缘障碍犹如日月驱散迷暗，无上密法以视师如佛之虔敬心契入，见、修、行、果不离上师。若师徒相应无二，上师之加持如满瓶倾倒，弟子刹那成熟解脱。因此，依止上师、修持上师乃无上密乘之甚深心髓。

有人问：“如果对一位见解尚未圆满证悟佛果的导师生起最虔诚的信心，与以微弱信心依止另一位圆满证悟佛果的导师相比，哪一种情况获得的加持更大？”答案当然是前者。如善星比丘和提婆达多，即使释迦牟尼佛亲自降临身边，也得不到丝毫之加持。

法王如意宝于《诸乘要诀》中云：“不论何人，不论聪明抑或愚笨，只要对上师有信心，其相续中必然生起智慧觉受。在我以前摄受弟子的过程中，有些聪明的人没有认识见解，然有些愚笨者则能认识见解，主要取决于对上师信心的强弱。”解脱与轮回只有一线之隔，若信心圆满，当下即可认识本来面目而获得解脱；若信心偏袒，纵使修行万年，亦无法超越轮回苦海。

今天是空行荟供日，请大家怀着虔诚信心祈祷上师、本尊、空行、护法，祈愿上师以及诸佛之加持如满瓶倾泻，融入自他一切众生之相续。

As the verse goes, “What you must understand is that the transcendent truths and the primordial wisdom are all based on the accumulation of the provisions and spiritualization of the obstacles and that with the blessings from the Guru. Those who rely on other phenomena are very foolish, indeed.” The Guru is the source of all blessings, and he is also the root of the transcendent and common accomplishment. He removes the bad circumstances and obstacles just like the sun and moon disperse deceptive gloom. The supreme tantras regard the Guru as Buddha, and with that faith, we enter the path, through which, our view, practice, conduct, and fruit will not leave the Guru. When the Guru and the disciple correspond with each other, the Guru’s blessings will inject into him like filled bottle pouring into an empty one and the disciple will ripe his enlightenment in a blink of eye. So, to rely on the Guru and to practice the Guru Yoga are indeed the heart marrow of the Ati Yoga. 

Some may ask, “To generate the most faithful piety over a guru whose view hasn’t reach the perfect Buddhahood and to weakly generate a small amount of piety over a guru who has reached the Buddhahood, in which case a disciple will receive more blessings?” Surely it is the first one. Bhikshu Sunaksatra and Devadatta, even though they have the Buddha Shakyamuni personally manifested himself in front of them, they received none blessings. 

In “The Crucial Knack of Multiple Vehicles” choeje Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche said, “No matter who, wise or a fool, if he has faith in his Guru, the wisdom and auspicious experiences will surely arise in his mental continuum. In my experience, of those disciples I accepted in the past, comparing to those smart ones, the slower disciples who recognize the view swiftly owed to his stronger piety to his Guru.” There’s only a thin gap between the Liberation and Samsara. If faith fulfilled, one will recognize his ontology right at that moment and achieve liberation. If faith deviates, even he spends thousands of years practicing; he will not transcend the bitter sea of samsara. 

Today is the Feast-Offering Day of the Dakini, with faithful piety let’s pray to the Guru, the Yidam, the Dakini, the protective deities and Buddha Dharma. May the blessings of the Guru as well as all buddhas fill us like full bottles pouring, and integrate the blessings into the mental continuum of all sentient being including us.

——嘉样堪布

Khenpo Jamyang