Question asked by Eli Levine
Good evening Pastors,
I was wondering if it is possible for someone to be a lay-tantric practitioner (as Yuthok Yontan Gonpo the Younger)? I read somewhere about some bodhisattvas being able to become Enlightened or at least be able practitioners without having many interactions with Lamas. Is this accurate?
I will confess that one of my greater challenges as a person is to remain as humble as possible. I don't know how to express my problem without sounding crass and prideful, but I know I have accomplished much in terms of my personal spiritual growth and development without a formal guru to take shelter in. This is not to say that I have not had a lot of help along the way in forms that I haven't been able to conceive and from people all throughout my lifetime here. I suppose I'm just feeling exhausted bearing the knowledge and awareness that I may be at least a kind of bodhisattva while having to completely deny, counter-act, and shoot down those thoughts and feelings for the sake of preserving my own self at the very least and all others at the very most. I honestly wish I could meet with all of you in person or chat with some of you in person or online. I know that we are who we make ourselves out to be. I just have a sinking sensation that I'm making myself out to be more that I am, even though I want deeply to be all that I can be (and I know that that's substantial as a human being).
Hopefully we can talk more?
With all respect and admiration.
Thank you Rinpoche for this profound teachings of Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo.
https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/great-lamas-masters/three-kinds-of-laziness.html