It’s funny, but it’s true.
If we bring fear into the path of Compassion and Letting-go
with the intention of dissolving it all away
we’ll get LESS then spectacular results.
BUT if we bring fear into the path of Buddha’s four yogas
with the intention of increasing our Mastery of Compassion and Letting-go
then not only will we experience what we desire
but as a fringe benefit well dissolve even MORE fear.
Be careful.
There’s a little fiend the sits on your shoulder,
whispering into your ear,
that if you were truly spiritual you’d never fear.
Not only does this little bastard increase your fear
but he also multiplies your guilt
while undermining your self esteem.
But wouldn’t it be cool
if everything he made us feel
could actually fuel our soothing, and healing journey upon
Buddha’s path of compassion and wisdom?
That’s what it means to:
• strategically,
• cunningly and
• ruthlessly
drag every experience
{often kicking and screaming}
into the path.
Many years ago, I sat across the restaurant table,
from a pretty girl that was busy breaking up with me.
Could you have ever had one of those moments of clarity
in a conversation, when it became evident that…
she who you were conversing with
had already made up her mind,
regardless of the facts,
and that the conversation was merely scripted
to easer her guilty conscious?
So I sat there, allowing myself to face the pain
with what my teachers’ called
“the vulnerability of naked awareness.”
As each wave of emotion manifested,
I sharpened my perception to crystal clarity,
and ruthlessly dragged it into the exercises
of Compassion and Letting-go.
It wasn’t my job to manipulate her into loving me.
It wasn’t my job to allow pain to bounce off my heart
the way that bullets bounce off of Superman’s chest.
It was simply my job, my privilege and my purpose
to practice Buddha’s mental yogas
of Devotion, Awareness, Compassion and Letting-go.
In being fully present to
either the bliss or the nightmare of the present moment,
life becomes workable,
and true happiness can become a reality;
even in the face of profound inconvenience.
That is how we can be subversive,
not to expectation,
not to society,
BUT to Samsara’s prison {or matrix}
of the tyranny of suffering.
Could you desire to be set free, Neo?
May you and yours be
happy and healthy!
Om Mani Padme Hum,
NON-sectarian Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika
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