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Authentic Practitioners Abandoning Attachment
The main thing is that you must abandon any interest in mundane life. For if you do not abandon all interest in this life, saying that you are a practitioner is nothing more than hypocrisy. This is not in accord with the character of a bodhisattva.
Svasti!
If you do not abandon attachment for food and clothing, although you may have attained the rank of a geshe and are an expert of the scriptures, you are no more than a monk paying taxes. Upholding the Buddha’s teachings is difficult!
If you do not abandon attachment for food and clothing, although you might be a fearsome tantrika reciting HUM, you are just striking cymbals and beating the drum until they crack. Achieving the essence of practice is difficult!
If you do not abandon attachment for food and clothing, even if you behave like a yogi, you are just a fool adorned with a HUM in your topknot. To be in harmony with the conduct of a buddha is difficult!
If you do not abandon attachment for food and clothing, even if you are a guru sitting on a high throne, the thunder of your dharma teachings is no more than an echo. It is difficult to give rise to the compassion that benefits others!
If you do not abandon attachment for food and clothing, although you may think you are a great meditator who stays in retreat, it is not enough to practice outer meditation assiduously. It is difficult for the realization of inner meaning to dawn!
If you do not abandon attachment for food and clothing, you may imagine yourself as a siddha walled up in a cell, but this is nothing more than a vibrant display. It is difficult to attain the final goal of buddhahood!
If you do not abandon attachment for food and clothing, although you wander on pilgrimage to the holy places of all lands, you just keep killing the little worms of the earth beneath your feet. It is difficult to attain the siddhis of these sacred places!
If you do not abandon attachment for food and clothing, even if you dwell in the monastic schools of the vinaya, even if you presently observe your vows carefully, ultimately, genuine monastic discipline is difficult!
If you do not abandon attachment for food and clothing, although you are the nephew of an excellent lineage, you’re just enjoying your wealth and food. It is difficult to be of the excellent lineage of the Buddha!
If you do not abandon attachment for food and clothing, although you have received extensive teachings both short and long, you think only about wealth and feast. It will be difficult for the essential teachings to arise in your mind!
Drukpa Kunley
The Eight Worldly Dharmas and Songs of Renunciation
Drukpa Kunley's reply is clarifying that maintaining the self-confident idea of 'I am a practitioner.' regardless if you follow the path of an fully-ordained monk, nun, a non-celibate male or female ngakpa or naldjor, or even if you are a learned geshe, enthroned guru, rinpoche, incarnation, or a powerful siddha-like practitioner, is challenging.
Therefore, for becoming an authentic and perfect practitioner "the main thing is that you must abandon any interest in mundane life. For if you do not abandon all interest in this life, saying that you are a practitioner is nothing more than hypocrisy."
Moreover, as long as a practitioner is "not abandoning attachment for food and clothing" he or she cannot be regarded as an authentic and perfect practitioner.
Thus, the yogic practices of inner heat and pleasurable sensations, tummo (gtum mo), and extracting the essences, chülen (bcud len), are essential.
BY Meditations of a Yogi
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