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*******Dharma Quote of the Day*******"Tara has the power to help us. However, this power is effective only if we trust it. For Tara to help, we must pray to her and call upon her from the bottom of our hearts without reserve or doubting her intervention. The deity’s response depends on the strength of our mind, there is a small probability that Tara’s blessing and protection will come to us, whereas a trust without reserve and a complete conviction, will insure that they will certainly come.
In reality, all worldly appearances are a manifestation of our mind. Fear, apprehension, and danger are also a manifestation of our mind, just like in a bad dream the mind creates both the threat and the one who feels it.
The creative faculty of our mind is very strong. It is this strength that exerts itself in the fervent prayer addressed to Tara. Together with Tara’s immense will to help beings, this strength makes possible the protection. The help that we receive is the fruit of the meeting of these two factors, the force of our devotion and Tara’s compassion.
We must understand that if phenomena had reality in themselves, no change would be possible. By the fact that they are empty in nature, they are only expression of the deep conditioning of our mind that can be changed. This explains the efficiency of our prayer and Tara’s answer.
It is also why, when the nature of the mind is realized, all fear disappears."
- Excerpt taken from Tara - the Feminine Divine by H.E. Bokar Rinpoche
*H.E. Bokar Rinpoche (1940 - 2004) was recognized by His Holiness the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa as the reincarnation of the previous Bokar Rinpoche. He was a holder of the Karma Kagyü and Shangpa Kagyü lineages.
