43 The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer And Guru Devotion 30-Apr-2004

Lama Zopa Rinpoche reads the Mahamudra lineage prayer and explains the fundamental meaning of mahamudra. He says it is the unification of emptiness and dependent arising. No phenomena exist without being empty. All phenomena are sealed by emptiness; they exist by dependent arising, being merely imputed by the mind, related to the base. Rinpoche also outlines the supreme mahamudra, which is the path of unification.
Rinpoche continues reading the Mahamudra lineage prayer and explains how to meditate on the points. He says that by knowing the life stories of the lineage lamas, so much faith is generated. For example, by knowing Lama Tsongkhapa’s life story, it’s easier to develop devotion. Rinpoche also explains how to see each lineage lama and your own guru as one. He says that when we say ‘Lama Tsongkhapa’, it’s not that. ‘Lama’ means your own root guru, so you are looking at it as one. In this way, the Mahamudra lineage prayer is combined with guru yoga.
Rinpoche cites a lama who said, ‘I have no other meditation except the guru’. By this, he meant there’s no deity you visualize that is not the guru.
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