This exercise spans four pages.
The first two are the verbal exercises, the
second two guide one through the silent trainings.
Only the first page is mandatory, the
remaining three are optional.
If you are just going to do the 1 page, minimum practice then
it is IMPORTANT to use the neutral mudra {hand gesture}.
If you are going to actually count the exercises with
your middle finger upon your mala {buddhist rosary} then
it is imperative that you practice all four pages.
Why?
Because the power of bliss is like a double edged sword,
if properly applied it becomes a highly efficient object of
both peace’s concentration as well as
wisdom’s contemplation; but…
if it is mishandled it could increase our neuroses, like
a Jewish grandmother feeding her children…
“eat bubala eat!”
So how?
How are we to responsibly handle this
dynamic energy known as the “Heart-bliss of devotion”?
By using Buddha’s wisdom exercises to deconstruct it!
Yes, all religions teach devotion, but
in Buddhism once we experience it’s bliss, we
then harness it’s dynamic energy with
the exercises of Letting-go.
And this can open up another can of worms.
Our bodies change:
• every year,
• every month,
• every week,
• every day,
• every hour,
• every minuet.
There could be times when our bodies feel the
bliss more acutely, and there
could be other times when they won’t.
It is a mistake to equate the perception of bliss with
the accomplishment of the path…
it’s just a fun sensation that
has only the POTENIAL of being useful.
We’ve all seen the tragedy of fools who
self-righteously confuse some physical or emotional sensations with
true spiritual accomplishment and as such become
“puffed up” with:
• pride,
• self-satisfaction and
• contempt {for other “lesser” beings}.
And nobody wants that!
It is also a mistake to conclude that
a temporary inability to perceive bliss is
a spiritual indictment...
as such an error could only multiply our:
• neurosis,
• guilt,
• fear,
• anger and
• self-loathing.
Remember, remember, remember…
who we are is NOT determined by
what we feel,
BUT by what we do with what we feel.
Try this on for irony.
One could try to cultivate bliss.
One could fail.
One could feel very, very Sad about that.
One could then bring that sadness into the paths of:
• Gratitude,
• Awareness,
• Compassion and
• Letting-go and
consequently, rapidly accomplish full enlightenment.
Hey, I’m not gonna say that’s ironic, but
I think I can hear O’ Henry chuckling in the corner.
So here’s a simple rule of thumb: if
you’re over sensitive to bliss then
limit your number of recitations of
the Gratitude and Devotion generating exercises.
And conversely if
you’re under sensitive to bliss then
simply increase your repetitions of those exercises.
Who is working with you, every week, to
ensure you’ll accomplish full enlightenment in 2011 without abandoning
work, spouse, children, home or even pet?
May you and yours be
happy and healthy!
Om Mani Padme Hum,
NON-sectarian Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika
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