警惕，你是追师族吗？｜Attention! Are you a Guru chaser?

现在很多人成为了追师族，拜见了几位活佛，得到了什么法，这些似乎成了一种潮流。如果这是学佛的目的，那和世间的追星有什么不同。我们连人生难得一法都没有好好修的话，那上师的境界和我们有什么关系。我们追的不是上师的人，而是上师的法，是与师心相应，生起与佛一样的功德。如此就算不去拜见，也会得到圆满的加持。

如果只是每天忙着到处见上师，求加持，自己不去独处修心，那就会像顽石上撒水一般，里边依然是干的。那这就不是依师的目的，不是修行的目的，不是学佛的目的。

警惕！你的目的是什么，是求法，是修法，是修心，不是追逐。

嘉样堪布

Attention! Are you a Guru chaser?

Nowadays, a lot of people have somehow become guru chasers. They are fond of talking about how many tulkus they have recently met, and how many empowerments they have received. This has become some kinds of a trend among Dharma practitioners. If such routine has become the goal of our Buddhism practice, then what is the difference between us and those celebrities’ fans? 

The human body is hard to acquire, if we haven’t meditated on this, How could we say we have anything to do with our guru’s state of realization. It is the guru’s Buddha Dharma we are after, not the guru himself. We should seek for his realized mind, and wish the merits and virtues of the Buddha one day will arise in our own mind. In doing so, even we don’t pay many visits to our gurus, we may still receive complete blessing.

While we spend our days visiting gurus elsewhere and hope for receiving some forms of blessings instead of staying in one place and meditating, we will be very much like spraying water on a pebble: wet on the surface, dry in the core. This should not be the purpose of following a master, practicing Buddha Dharma, or learning Buddhism.

Stay alert upon your purpose. It is not to a game of guru chasing. The Dharma, the practicing and the meditates, these are the basics we really need.

Khenpo Jamyang