If you meet a Tibetan teaching and you go to the teachers saying, "Please give me a blessing and a protection cord", and the teacher gives you a protection cord and a kind of blessing and you are satisfied and go away, then you have had a nice occasion to meet the teacher, but you've had no capacity to ask for the teaching or receive the teaching for knowledge of the path so that you can become realized. You can't have realization through receiving a blessing. You can't have realization by receiving a cord, which you put around your neck. That is not the path. That is nothing. You are completely missing that capacity.
Also if you have no communication with the teacher, you are missing capacity. There may be a really good teacher, for example, but you don't know the language of the teacher, or the teacher doesn't know your language. You sit in front of the teacher and you feel a little vibration and you think you have received something. Many Westerners feel just a little vibration and think they are realizing something important. You can also feel a vibration when you go to a theater, for example.
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