The kind of practice that results in supreme enlightenment is the continuous, natural, graceful effort. It is a happy, blissful,and joyful effort. We should always be in the posture of the teachings. That means that you literally walk around with your heart like a bowl, your mind like a bowl and you are in the posture of a constant wish:
“Please Lord Guru
Change me into whatever form is necessary.
Change my mind – Change my heart – Purify my karma.
Please Lord Guru
The only thing that I request that you do is to not let me remain the same.
Please Lord Guru
Constantly pour the nectar of your Dharma into me.
Lord Guru,
Do not abandon me in samsara.
Do not leave me in the condition that I am now.
Change me utterly and completely to where I do not recognize
Myself as an ordinary samsaric being any longer.
Think of the Guru like a mother bird. Constantly remain in the posture of beseeching the Guru for teachings.
The thing that you have been terrified of, the thing that you have guarded
yourself against, is the very thing that you should be requesting constantly:
That you should be transformed and changed according to the wishes of the
Guru.
Do not let me be separate from your teachings even for a moment.
Have courage.
© Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo
