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Tips on Meditation and the Spiritual path - idea #186
from your Buddhism expert
Could you recall rejoicing at the very sight of
nature? When I glimpsed the sky, this morning, on
the way to the laundry room, the sight of the sky
beautifully lit by the sun’s fiery orb, that had
yet to appear at the horizon, put a smile on my lips
and joy in my heart.
Could you have ever had a brainstorm that filled you
with the enthusiasm of creative energy? While loading
the washing machine today, communication strategies
to prevent energetic vampirism just seemed to come
to me. It was as fun as it was exciting.
Could you remember ever feeling like a million bucks?
No, I don’t mean green and wrinkled! What I meant to
ask is: Have you ever felt a song in your heart? This
morning I felt the urge to sing and dance to the
Beastie Boy’s “Three MCs and One DJ.”
If you’ve been reading these daily tips for any time
at all you could recall that I frequently teach that
neither sorrow, fear nor anger are foes that need to
be crushed, as much as energy that needs to be
harnessed. Like wise, joy too, is an energy to be
harnessed.
But shrewdly harnessing the energy of joy really isn’t
our knee-jerk reaction, is it? Sadly, each of us
instinctively tends to squander that energy through movement, speech or thought.
There is nothing wrong with dancing about, in fact one
of my teachers was quite a big fan of it. However it
can also be good to use that physical energy to help
your partner around the house of even bow to the
Buddha of Compassion, AKA:
• Avalokiteshvara,
• Kuan Yin or
• Chenrezig,
which can really generate a whole bunch of good karma.
This of course brings us to the “motor mouth”
syndrome. When some folks feel great joy they aren’t
sure what to do with themselves. They feel as if they
could burst into a million pieces, so they start
talking AT another, non-stop, until the feelings of
overwhelming joy abate. It is as if they have drunk
too much and are now vomiting. But instead of
purging the contents of their belly into a toilet,
they are vomiting their words upon another.
My friend, have you ever had someone talk AT you for
5, 10 or even 15 minuets straight? It’s exhausting
isn’t it. Whether someone is vomiting their joy or
their sorrow upon you, it is still no fun to be
treated like a human toilet, is it?
If you’re reading these essays with any regularity you
probably possess some spiritual ambition. You most
likely would rather be a great Bodhisattva than a
destructive energy vampire. So then how can we harness
the great energy of joy?
Easy! Make use of the contemplative exercise
“
Essential Giving.” It can be found on the 25th page
of “
Quick Path to Happy Peace;” which is available
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“…give great joy and it’s causes to all;”
empowered, of course, by the Six-syllable mantra:
Om Mani Padme Hum. If you have yet to master the
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Essential Giving” I
urge you to then let go by practicing the concise
mental yoga of the “
Essential Meditation;” which is
found on page 10 of the same text. After the proper
training, these two techniques could provide you with
the frame work to tread Buddha’s path of Love and
Letting-go.
Of course this type of mental training is only helped
by blissfully centering yourself, twice daily with the
“
Centering Questions.”
Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso Tibetan-Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika
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