We are born in this Zambu-dweep world and have
acquired the precious human rebirth due to the gathering of
the compositional factors of the eight
leisures and ten blessings.
This is a most perfect and auspicious opportunity. That we are
fortunate enough to receive the teaching of perfect Buddha
dharma and also be able to meet so many qualified teachers
is the result of the ripening of our positive merits
from countless past lives.
But due to our attachment from time beginningless towards
the repeated pattern of samsara, we have developed strong
emotions towards this samsara. Therefore, it is common for
sentient beings to find themselves emotionally drawn
towards the attainment of worldly concern regardless of
difficulty and hardships, which in turn generates all types
of karmas in the process.
If we truly want to learn the teaching of Dharma, we must
first find a qualified teacher. Buddhism has Mahayana and
Vajrayana traditions, of which Vajrayana and especially the
Great Perfection (Dzogpachenpo) is especially
beneficent for the degenerated times like now. The actual
practice to Dzogchen consists of
preliminary and the main
practices, that has visualizations, recital
of mantras and the sadhanas.
In fact, we might all think we know about Dharma and might
even want to practise these teachings, but because of our
attachment to worldly distractions, we are
not able to practise accordingly as instructed, as if we
show no concern for the effect of karma, as
though karma is not real and does not really
exist, and thus as a result, succeed in continually
creating more negative karma. Only at the end of our
lives, when we come face to face with the imminent
sufferings of death, do we start thinking that we should do
something about it! But by that time, even if we come to
realise that we have not studied the Dharma and neither
have we applied ourselves properly according to the pith
instructions of the teacher and hence the prospect of
falling into the three lower realms is imminent; the time
of seeking the Dharma and practising has already passed, so
now what do we do?