“I’m not sure if I’m reading the answer correctly,” she confessed,
was the key to her reluctance to practice
the techniques that would allow her to Dialog
with the Buddha of compassion.
Come back stage with me,
as we take a look at the reason,
BEHIND the reason.
“I’m doing this correctly.”
“I’m reading this accurately.”
“I’m getting the right answer.”
Could you sense the rigidity in these statements?
Could you further open the door to your perception
and sense the fear behind these statements,
that the rigidity is striving to compensate for?
Friends, trying to believe your way out of fear
is like trying to fu%k in the name of virginity.
Belief is a rigidity that strives to overcome fear.
But it is a rigidity that strives and fails.
Let us NOT run away from fear,
and hide coweringly behind the paper lion of our beliefs.
I don’t want bad things
or even inconvenient things
to happen
but sometimes they do anyway.
If we rigidly strive to prevent
every unpleasant potentiality from occurring
how are we going to develop the habit
of elegantly rolling with the punches?
What is the opposite of rigidity?
Could it be flexibility?
Let’s bring flexibility into the arena
of Dialoging with the Buddha of Compassion.
Do we know, if we are actually
conversing with the Buddha of Compassion?
Nope.
But would we like to?
Yeah, sure, you bet’cha!
Do we know, if we are actually getting
the exact answer we need in the specific moment?
Of course not.
But would we like that answer?
Yes!
Come let us stare our worst nightmares right in the face.
Let us NOT foolishly try to push them away with contrived belief.
As a weapon against fear,
faith is as flaccid as a wet noodle.
Throw that weapon aside and pick up another one.
How about flexible desire?
Yes, I’d like to dialog with Chenrezig.
No, I don’t know if these techniques will work,
so let’s use them and see what results we get.
Yes, I’d like to receive the exact guidance I require for the specific moment.
No, I don’t know if these techniques will work.
So let’s apply them with the enthusiasm of desire
and use the flexibility of curiosity
to notice what results they give us in both the short term and long term.
Look!
Look at our lives.
Look at all the sufferings we have endured,
despite our hope and efforts to the contrary.
Look!
Look at all the decisions we made,
that despite seeming or feeling sound,
brought us even MORE suffering.
Our logic and intuition did NOT give us the results we desired.
Our beliefs failed to shelter us from suffering.
Have you grown weary of this pattern?
Then try something new.
You’d be hard pressed to find someone more fearful and neurotic
then I used to be.
But applying the techniques of Dialoging with Kuan Yin
with a flexible desire
absolutely catapulted my journey forward upon the path to enlightenment.
There is only one way to see if they’ll work for you as well.
The test of these teachings,
is not whether they satisfy your reason or feelings.
Remember where logic and intuition have already taken you.
According to Buddha, the ONLY valid test of these teachings
is the results they give you when they are properly applied.
#1 Do your twice daily homework to strengthen
your karmic connection to Avalokiteshvara.
#2 Receive and practice the precise techniques of dialoging.
#3 Cultivate your Bodhisattva’s longing to accomplish both
the conventional and ultimate welfare of all beings.
Our lives are NOT about the avoidance of personal pain,
BUT about universal enlightenment.
• Treasure this mindset,
• apply the teachings,
• surf the results.
The Thursday series of weekly webinars starts THIS week!
May you and yours be
happy and healthy!
Om Mani Padme Hum,
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