Three ways of pleasing or serving the teacher 承侍上師的三種方式

The three ways of pleasing or serving the teacher (Tib. མཉེས་པ་གསུམ་, Wyl. mnyes pa gsum) are:

1. offering our practice (best way)
2. offering service with body and speech (middling way)
3. material offerings (lowest way)

Jokyab Rinpoche writes: "The [latter two] perfect the accumulation of merit and the [first] the accumulation of wisdom."

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

• Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, 6-7 August 2011

Further Reading

• Patrul Rinpoche, The Words of My Perfect Teacher (Boston: Shambhala, Revised edition, 1998), page 145
• Tsongkhapa, The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Lamrim Chenmo, Vol.1. Snow Lion Publications, ISBN 1-55939-152-9, pages 85-87.