After the Amitabha Puja on Monday, I had a very beautiful dream. I saw His Holiness the Dalai Lama in a small tent on a very high mountain in Tibet. I brought traditional Tibetan food specialities including butter, cheese, curd and Tsampa for offering. As soon as I offered them to His Holiness, he gave me many words of advice. When I woke up my heart was filled with so much joy and happiness! After a short while, I fell back to sleep. I had an another dream at the same place in the same tent. Again, I heard that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is living there. I went with all these gifts of Tibetan specialities to offer but when I entered the tent it wasn’t His Holiness the Dalai Lama, it was my own Guru Kyabje Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche in the tent. I thought to myself; oh this time it’s Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche, not His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Then, I gave him the offerings that I had brought with me. He too gave me teachings and advice. As soon as he had finished giving me teachings, I woke up with so much happiness in my heart. Dreaming of two lamas (gurus) at the same time at the same place symbolizes to me that all the lamas have the very same heart and thought. I always chant Guru Sadhana of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Kyabje Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche. When I do Guru Sadhana of Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche I also think of His Holiness, visualizing him as Sangye Tenzin Rinpoche and vice-versa. I finally concluded from my dreams that all my lamas have the same nature and the same basis of emanation. So, my heart was filled with great joy and happiness.
ཁ་ནུབ་གཟའ་ཟླ་བའི་བདེ་ཆེན་ཞིང་
སྒྲོ་བ་ཞེས་པ་ནི་ནང་ཆེན་བའི་ཡུ
ཞིག་ནང་དུ་བོད་ཟས་འདྲ་མིན་དཔེར་
ངས་རྒྱབ་ཏུ་ཁུར་བའི་བོད་ཟས་རྣ
Written by Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, posted on his Manjushri Dharma Centre (spelled English style) Facebook page, August 5th, 2018
