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'''Padma Sambhava''' is revered throughout the Himalayan countries as the “Precious Guru.” He is the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, and his followers venerate him as the “second Buddha.” | '''Padma Sambhava''' is revered throughout the Himalayan countries as the “Precious Guru.” He is the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, and his followers venerate him as the “second Buddha.” | ||
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[[File:1280px-Samye-94-Hauptgebaeude-2014-gje.jpg|thumb|<translate><!--T:55--> The main building at Samye Monastery, Tibet</translate>]] | |||
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== Padma Sambhava’s life == <!--T:3--> | == Padma Sambhava’s life == <!--T:3--> | ||
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<blockquote>Consider that you may have a malady of the soul and that this malady can become a cancer of the soul, eating away at the very essence of your soul-identity. Recognize when the soul is sick and consult the doctor Lord Gautama Buddha and other Buddhas.... | <blockquote> | ||
Consider that you may have a malady of the soul and that this malady can become a cancer of the soul, eating away at the very essence of your soul-identity. Recognize when the soul is sick and consult the doctor Lord Gautama Buddha and other Buddhas.... | |||
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Please recognize the illness of the soul. It is the most dangerous illness of all. It is when you begin to have a warped view of life and of others and you imagine they have opinions of you that they do not and you begin to torment yourself with bitterness toward life, toward God. Oh yes, beloved, all of these emotional and mental attitudes are the beginning of the decay of the body itself. | |||
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<blockquote>... go beyond rancor.... What vast opportunity is cast aside when anger is not conquered, when resentment is not transmuted into forgiveness and love and gratitude for mercies given.... | <blockquote> | ||
... go beyond rancor.... What vast opportunity is cast aside when anger is not conquered, when resentment is not transmuted into forgiveness and love and gratitude for mercies given.... | |||
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The antidotes begin in the etheric body, the mental body. The antidotes are the good humor, the good happiness, the good compassion, the good love, the good fairness and forgiveness. All of these things are the antidotes that would take away the sins of the whole world and the cancers lying deep in the psyche and then deep in the organs. | |||
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<blockquote>I give you the initiations of your Christhood. Do you think it odd that an Eastern Guru should teach you, a Western chela, the path of Jesus Christ? I, for one, do not. For you see, through your training and initiations under me, I bring you along on the path of chelaship to the place where it would be unthinkable for you, under any circumstances, to be an offense to your Lord.... | <blockquote> | ||
I give you the initiations of your Christhood. Do you think it odd that an Eastern Guru should teach you, a Western chela, the path of Jesus Christ? I, for one, do not. For you see, through your training and initiations under me, I bring you along on the path of chelaship to the place where it would be unthinkable for you, under any circumstances, to be an offense to your Lord.... | |||
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Jesus said to his disciples: “Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”<ref>Luke 6:46.</ref> Many continue to cry, “Lord, Lord,” professing to love him, to know him and to be a Christian, but their actions belie their words.... | |||
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There is more to the discipline of being a Christian than crying, “Lord, Lord.” You must be able to continually keep the flame of your emergent Christhood and to live according to God’s will.... Call to me so that you might be made whole at all levels of your being so that in that wholeness you might sit at your Lord’s feet and neither offend him nor be offended by him.<ref>Padma Sambhava, “God Is Just: All Will Receive Their Just Reward,” {{POWref|38|36|, August 20, 1995}}</ref> | |||
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== See also == <!--T:49--> | == See also == <!--T:49--> | ||
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[[Tertön]] | [[Tertön]] | ||
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