How to Rely on Guru Trustfully?

     The Dharma is hard to hear, and the wise teacher is hard to find. However, relying on a Guru is an important first step in spiritual practice. 

     This requires merits and even more wisdom.

     Let’s look at some of the guru’s answers to questions about how to rely on the guru.

     Let us walk safer on the path of dharma practice.

1.

Question: I am a beginner. My Taoist friends told me that learning Tantra can be accomplished by relying on multiple gurus. So, how can I practice dharma accordingly by relying on multiple gurus?

Grand Master: You must have pure confidence in every guru, especially the fundamental guru, and you must be more respectful.

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Question: How can I know who my fundamental guru is?

Grand Master: A fundamental guru is a guru who gives you initiations, explains the tantras to you, and uses these tips to help you realize your intrinsic nature clearly.

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Question: How do you deal with gossip or guru’s teachings?

Grand Master: Dharma practitioners only look at their own minds, and they must adjust and tame their own minds. When you see external manifestations, you must have a pure view and not affect your own practice.

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Question: If I hear the mantra recited by the guru through the Internet, can it be regarded as receiving the inheritance?

Grand Master: The inheritance cannot be obtained. The audio is just a recording, not the current sound. If you have enough faith, the blessing of the mantra can help you receive the inheritance.

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Question: I took refuge with the great benevolent master over the phone. I have never received any initiation. Am I still considered a Tantra disciple? Is it possible to perform rituals for offering sacrifices to the Dharma protector?

Grand Master: If you have not received the highest initiation, you are considered a quasi-disciple of the Tantric Dharma (Master laughs), and you can offer Dharma Protectors.

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Question: Pay homage to the Grand Master! I would like to ask Grand Master: What should lay people do with used incense packaging bags, paper with hymns or Tibetan characters on them, those packagings with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, scriptures or Tibetan characters on them?

Grand Master: Kyabje Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok once said that if used packaging bags with Tibetan characters are scattered on a clean mountain, they can increase wisdom after being blown away by the wind. But as time changes, if Buddhists still do this now, it may annoy many people, thinking that we are polluting the environment, so now we can put it in a clean bag for a month or half a year, in a clean, insect-free place to burn the bag, in this way, has good intentions and good methods.

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Question: My child is unwilling to study and is forced to do homework every day. What should I do? My beloved great master, please teach me! There are many family problems, and I don’t know whether to focus my time on my family or go to class and study.

Grand Master: Parents are their children’s first teachers. They should guide and educate their children with skill and convenience. Try not to let your children use mobile phones when they are young, and often tell them stories about the merits of the Triple Gem and cause and effect. Parents themselves should not watch more TV or play with mobile phones, otherwise their children will be difficult to manage.

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Question: My child has Asperger's Syndrome. I would like to ask Grand Master if the retribution of this child can be resolved in this life.

Grand Master: This is the child's own karma. You can release more lives for the child, do more good deeds, and then dedicate the merits to him, and pray for the blessings of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Things that humans cannot do will turn around through the blessings of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

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Question: Pay homage to the master! I would like to ask Grand Master, the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva treasure bottle you previously stored was broken during the express delivery. What should I do with the broken bottle and the treasure inside? Namo Shakyamuni!, Namo Amitabha!, thank you Grand Master!

Grand Master: The contents of the treasure vase can be placed in a clean cloth and offered, and the outer vase can be buried on a clean mountain.

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Question: There is a bracelet made of rubber with the Mahasui Mantra printed on it. Some masters have taught that the Mahasui Mantra can benefit all living beings in the water when it comes in contact with water, so you can wear it to wash your hands and take a bath. In addition, there is another type of rubber bracelet that combines five mantras into one, with the Great Sui Mantra, Guanyin Mantra, Manjushri Mantra, etc. on it. Can this kind of bracelet also be worn to bathe and benefit all living beings?

Grand Master: If there is no accurate teaching and explanation, it is best not to wear bracelets engraved with sutras and mantras.

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Question: Zhou Yi's birth and horoscope fortune telling is quite accurate. I would like to ask Grand Master, can destiny be changed if someone wants to change it?

Grand Master: It can be changed through favorable methods because the causes and conditions will change.

12.

Question: Auspicious to my great kindness! Can the donations received daily in our life-release group be accumulated until our release life day? Or can be given to other groups that release animals every day?

Grand Master: The leader of the life-release group can just make the arrangements himself.