Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
experience. Thats called samsara. We have already done that for countless
lifetimes, life after life, death following rebirth. Unless you now take this
opportunity, while you are still a human being, to realize what is fully
possible, you will continue in the future in the same deluded way.
Please understand that the buddha nature is present within everyone.
Nobody lacks this potential, not even a single person in this world. Unless
you learn how to bring it into your personal experience, train in that and
realize it, you remain deluded. Delusion never disappears by itself. Spinning
around on the rim of samsaras vicious wheel, on the twelve links of
dependent origination, you will continue life after life. We all die, are reborn,
and die again, countless times.
But, in this present life, you can learn to experience your enlightened
essence, and if you do that, you can, before passing away, attain the perfectly
and fully awakened state of a buddha. The method to transform this human
body into rainbow light at the moment of death is only through recognizing
and realizing our buddha nature; there is no other possible way. The
instruction for how to do that is still available. Place your trust in the three
jewels: the precious Buddha, dharma and sangha. Receive this teaching from
someone who holds an unbroken lineage; this lineage is still intact.
Otherwise, everyone dies; there is no exception. In the past, everyone who
lived in this world died. Right now everyone alive will die. Everyone born in
the future will also die. Everything in the world changes; nothing remains the
same, nothing is permanent, nothing lasts. If you want to be successful, if
you really want to take care of yourself --recognize your enlightened essence.
Extracted with permission from Rangjung Yeshe Publications, from Repeating the
Words of the Buddha, by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.