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གང་ཞིག་བསྟེན་ན་ཉེས་པ་ཟད་འགྱུར་ཞིང་།།
ཡོན་ཏན་ཡར་ངོའི་ཟླ་ལྟར་འཕེལ་འགྱུར་བའི།།
བཤེས་གཉེན་དམ་པ་རང་གི་ལུས་བས་ཀྱང་།།
གཅེས་པར་འཛིན་པ་རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་ཡིན།།
When placing ourselves in the hands of a Guru,
we’re turning sincerely for guidance to someone
whose competence both in the scriptures and practice
expands like a moon growing full.
We’ll then solve all our problems, dispel our delusion,
if we place our full confidence in him.
We must cherish our Guru far more than our body -
the Sons of the Buddha all practice this way.
What is badly needed is the opposite of bad company. Good company increases
compassion, loving kindness, wisdom and peace of mind. It decreases your desire,
jealousy, hatred and pride. These will definitely diminish if you approach the
right person, the positive friend. In this English text, it says guru, when placing
ourselves in the hands of a guru. In Tibetan it does not say guru, it says shé nyen
dampa, shé nyen means “leader”, dampa means “holy”.
Of course, a holy leader can be a guru but a common friend can also be one.
A friend also gives you qualities such as decreasing anger and other defilements
and increasing compassion, loving kindness and wisdom. This person appears to
be an ordinary being, but can be considered a holy leader or guide. Once you
have found a shé nyen dampa or a holy guide, you have to value him or her very
highly and treat him or her much better than yourself, because holy guidance
or positive friend, is equivalent to a great master, a great guru or a Buddha. This
friend gives support in spiritual strength so you must value them from the depth
of your heart.
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