The Instructions on Parting from the Four Attachments [5]

BodhiHeart Podcast with Khenpo Sherab Sangpo

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, a professor of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage, offers six teachings on “The Instructions on Parting from the Four Attachments."

ཞེན་པ་བཞི་བྲལ་ The Instructions on Parting from the Four Attachments Oṃ Svasti Siddham! When he reached the age of twelve, the great Sachen Kunga Nyingpo undertook a six-month practice of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī. One day he had a vision, in which he actually saw, amidst a brilliant blaze of light, the holy Lord Mañjuśrī, orange in colour and seated on a jewelled throne, his feet placed flat upon the ground, his hands in the mudrā of explaining the Dharma, and with an attendant bodhisattva on either side. Mañjuśrī spoke to him: If you are attached to this life, you are not a true spiritual practitioner; If you are attached to saṃsāra, you have no renunciation; If you are attached to your own self-interest, you have no bodhicitta; If there is grasping, you do not have the view. When Sachen Kunga Nyingpo examined the truth of these words, he understood that the entire practice of the path of the pāramitās was condensed into training the mind in parting from these four attachments, and he attained a special conviction and insight into all the teachings of the Dharma. Samāptamithi!

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