Fundamental of Vajrayana

Generally speaking we follow Buddhism for many years, involve with the dharma for many years, still we don’t have a very vast knowledge of the Buddha’s teachings. That is the main fault of not having a vast knowledge about the teachings. It is not that we know a lot sutra tradition and we know a little about vajrayana tradition – not that; but we lack of knowledge about dharma, the meaning of dharma, that is the biggest problem, I think so.

The other big problem we have is that even though we know a little of the meaning of the Buddha’s teachings, the difficult part is to put it into action, put the knowledge into action, and so we always make mistakes in our actions even though we understand the meaning of the teachings that is the second biggest problem and is a very common problem.

Why do we not know the Dharma very well? It’s because we have a lack of many things: the environment is not so good, the system, the lifestyle, the time, and the desire we have in our minds, everything, is not perfect for us to learn the Dharma, therefore our knowledge is not very good when it comes to Dharma, and the other thing is that we have such strong habitual tendencies, so too difficult for us to change our style, we always like to be this way, to be not Dharma way. Dharma way is too difficult for me because of the habit, so those are the basic things we need to understand and to be aware of. Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche