Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

This latter is the "Vajrayana" of bad lamas who eat and
drink heedlessly, marry for pleasure, and who have little
idea of the meaning of what they teach, let alone any
idea of practicing it. They should learn from the
example of our Lord Buddha, who preached and
practiced all three vehicles in his life. If the first two
vehicles are not important (as some "tantric" teachers
suggest) then why did the Buddha teach them? Why did
he not directly preach the Vajrayana without the other
two? Out of all the thousand Buddhas in this
"auspicious aeon (Bhadra-kalpa)," only two preach the
Vajrayana. One of these was Sakyamuni and the other
will be the Buddha to come after Maitreya (to be called
Simhanada and now taking Bodhisattva birth as the
Guru Karmapa). Only two out of a thousand Buddhas
care to give the Vajrayana teachings to the world; the
others regard it as too difficult for people to understand
and liable to mislead the foolish.
But there is no contradiction between these yanas, as
some suppose, the truth being that each one helps the
next; therefore, not one of them can be left out from our
practice. Je Tsong-khapa, to whom we have paid our
homage, knew well enough the importance of
purification, an emphasis which many tantric teachers
ignore.
Then, Mr. Chen said very earnestly:
If one wants to realize the Vajrayana, then one must
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