Praying To the Lama

When we pray to our lamas, the thought is not that the lama is someone in a high position of power, while we are so lowly. That would be a very worldly and mundane way of thinking. Instead, we pray to the lama’s qualities of faith, renunciation, compassion and their realisation, with the aspiration to obtain those same qualities ourselves.

In Guru Yoga practice, we start with prayers to the lama but in the end, we visualise that the lama melts into a mass of light and dissolves into us, and the lama’s wisdom body, speech, and mind become indistinguishable from our body, speech, and mind.

Therefore, ultimately we pray to the Lama with intense devotion from the depths of our hearts, praying that our mind and the lama’s mind become closer and closer, until eventually we could become inseparable from the lama.

23rd May 2024 Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Centre, Nepal