![]() Click to enlarge | CALLING TO THE LAMA FROM AFARby Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche125 pp., color plate. #CALAAF - regular price $ 14.95 Especially in the Kagyu tradition of Mahamudra, devotion is the key to success on the path of higher teachings. One's lama is venerated as the holder of these teachings and, because of his or her accomplishments in meditation practice, is recognized as the embodiment of their truth. The lama's affection and skill in guiding students then joins with the student's own growing admiration and trust so that the student begins to turn toward the lama again and again in the same way that a flower opens naturally to the sun. This response can be cultivated through recollection, but it can never be contrived. Genuineness provides the atmosphere in which the lama's and the student's minds can truly meet. More ... |


