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Tips on Meditation and the Spiritual path - idea #163
from your Buddhism expert
Humility
If a humble man does
NOT offer unsolicited advice;
then he most certainly does
not manipulatively
force his uninvited guidance upon others. But this
is exactly what so many would-be healers do.
When a friend or relative is in crisis the are weak,
they are vulnerable. As loving men or woman, should
we exploit that weakness? Oh please don’t! Violating
another’s will, the way a rapist might violate his
victim’s body, can never benefit the object of our
attention.
But what are we to do, then? Can we make the offer?
Could we ask, “Would you like some in-put?” Yes,
that is a start, but let’s also give them the choice:
“…or would you just like a friendly ear?”
“But hey, Lama Jigme,” you could ask, “…isn’t
catharsis bad?” And the answer is, “Yes, yes it is.”
But folks, the choice to use catharsis or not, is
not ours, it is theirs. We must respect the will of
others. We must respect the autonomy of others. If
we violate their free will. If we dis-empower them
by being overbearing they might not recover.
So there we are, with a friend who is on the verge
of hysterics and is running off at the mouth,
espousing some very poor life-strategies:
• do we argue vehemently?
• Do we just nod our heads like mindless
“yes” men?
Or could there be a third option?
That third option would be to listen compassionately.
To listen while discretely performing the
metaphysical exercises that could actually dissolve
our friend’s suffering and it’s causes.
As we listen, we can subtly practice the silent
meditation “
Essential Taking” from page 17 of
“Quick
Path to Happy Peace” which you could down load for
FREE at:
http://www.lamajigme.com “Essential Taking” is part of a larger practice
called “Bringing Liberation into the path of
Compassion,” which is dependant on a certain amount
of comfort and familiarity with the Six-syllable
mantra: “
Om Mani Padme Hum.”
How familiar should we be with the mantra, also
nicknamed the “Mani?”
• We need to pronounce it correctly.
• We need to pronounce it easily.
• We need to pronounce it effortlessly.
• We need to pronounce it conversationally.
• We need to whisper it quietly.
• We need to recite it mentally and silently.
Yes, compassion begins with the desire to take away
the suffering of another. But as the
Dalai Lama’s late teacher Dilgo Khyentse taught; once we desire
to take away another’s suffering it is then imperative
that we then perform the actual deeds that take those
very sufferings away.
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