You cannot collect the milk of a snow lioness in an ordinary bucket. The milk of a snow lioness is really extraordinary because she is a very special kind of mythical and powerful magical being that doesn’t really exist totally in our world and yet sometimes occur here. The milk of a snow lioness is very, very sacred. But, even if you could get to a snow lioness, get to her milk, you couldn’t keep it in an ordinary bucket. It defies the molecular structure of an ordinary bucket and it would seep right through the metal. So, they say if you want to collect the milk of a snow lioness, you have to have a bucket made of jewels. Then you can collect that kind of precious essence. Its the same with the dharma. If you want to collect the precious essence of the dharma, which can open for you the essence of your own mind and cause the conditions that can benefit you and others, then you really have to come with a pure heart. Not just for yourself but for everyone. And expand your mind and expand your heart in as great a way as you can to collect the milk, that you can taste of it and others can taste of it.
