Actual Practice
Requesting the Guru
I added the next two verses; they are not in the original text by Dorje Chang Losang Jinpa.
✦ Then recite the following verses and meditate on the guru entering your heart.
May I not give rise to heresy for even a second
In regard to the actions of the glorious guru.
May I see whatever actions are done as pure.
With this devotion, may I receive the guru’s blessings in my heart.
You must practice looking at the guru’s actions as the actions of all the numberless buddhas. When your guru gives you advice or a teaching, think that all the buddhas are giving you that advice or teaching. Whatever holy action the guru does, think it is the holy action of all the buddhas. With every single action, think, “This is the action of all the buddhas.” That is the way to meditate. That is what you have to learn and realize.
If the guru is speaking to you very sweetly and praising you, think, “All the buddhas are praising me.” That action of saying sweet things to you is the holy action of all the buddhas. Especially if the guru is scolding you, think, “This is the action of all the buddhas.” You then don’t get angry, and you continuously subdue your mind. Otherwise, you may get angry, which is the worst, most destructive thing, creating the heaviest negative karma, destroying your merits, your realizations, your enlightenment.
Magnificent and precious root guru,
Please abide on the lotus seat at my heart,
Guide me with your great kindness,
And grant me the realizations of your holy body, speech, and mind.
To do the detailed meditation and visualization of the guru entering your heart, you need to have received a highest yoga tantra initiation. Otherwise, it cannot be explained to you.
That concludes the lamrim part of this practice. The remaining verses explain how to live your life for other sentient beings. Since you practice the Mahayana teachings, your motivation is that of dedicating your life to others, so as to free them from suffering and enable them to achieve the peerless happiness of enlightenment, as well as every other happiness.