The world around you constantly changes. There is little or nothing you can
do about it. Try! Change the world today to what you want or how you think
it should be. If you are able to do this, you will discover in a short while
that everything you have changed will change again into something different
and that you will be frustrated and disappointed by this.
This is not to suggest that you should be passive in your life. It is
important to have goals and to strive for the things in life that you
are naturally drawn to. The important point to understand is not to get
attached to what you want to have happen to yourself or others, or to the
events and outcomes that you wish to occur in this or any other incarnation.
Try your best to be your best. Meditate and quiet your mind. Then you will
always know what the dharma is-that which is spiritually correct for yourself.
By following the dharma, as opposed to your human desires and fears, you will
become happy and free.
Sometimes the dharma and your desires will be in agreement. Sometimes they
will not be. But you must fight always to do the right thing, whether it
brings you personal gain or loss. This is the true way of Vadrayana
Buddhism, the path of the awakened warrior.
The path of the awakened warrior is not an escape from reality. It is an
entrance into reality. If you seek to escape from day-to-day reality, you
will only increase your pain. The reality of enlightenment takes you above
mental and emotional pain while you actively live in the world; reality
cannot be separated from your physical life.
Samsara is nirvana: enlightenment and all of life are one. Suffering is
not caused by living in the material world and having experiences here.
True suffering is caused by losing touch with your inner light.
When you loose touch with your inner light you will descend into lower
samsaric states of consciousness. Here you will become attached to people,
places, and experiences in this and other worlds. This attachment will
cause you to suffer intensely.
It is your attachment to people, places, things, desires, and fears that
causes you to suffer. The daily practice of meditation will allow you to
live in the world, experience the ups and downs of life, but remain
unaffected by the pains and torments that attachments and aversion bring
to unenlightened beings.
The correct practice of meditation will keep you in an ocean of
enlightened mind that will allow you to pass freely through all of your
experiences in a state of bliss. Even the normal pains that come from
your physical body and mental emotions will be greatly reduced by the
constant experience of inner enlightenment you will derive from the correct
practice of meditation.
Learn to meditate well, practice, follow the advice of the true Tantric
Masters, and you too will pass beyond suffering and enter into eternal
happiness, bliss, ecstacy, and higher states of enlightenment-states
for which there are no words.
If Meditation interests you, I would recommend reading:
Surfing The Himalayas by Frederick Lenz
Snowboarding To Nirvana by Frederick Lenz
The Great Path of Awakening by Jamgon Konrtrul
Meditate...
Be absorbed in the clear light.
When there is nothing but light, then you will understand.
Until then, meditate.
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