Mon, 12 Oct 2009
Good Advice
Tonight I going to point at some good advice I found on other blogs. The first is advice from a Hindu Tantric. I liked his whole post, but especially this part. It's advice I very much need to take seriously.
The difference between successful sadhaks and those who are always griping about how "that didn't work" etc., is the the good sadhak takes things to heart and dives into them one hundred percent. Take a teaching like "turn the awareness around and investigate the nature of the "I"" This is a classic advaita meditation, but what do you do with it. One type says, "yes,yes, one looks for the "I" thought and it is not present...I've heard this before, what else you got". The other type turns the attention fully on this and will investigate (and not stop) until they rip apart the fabric of space/time itself. Take the teaching on unconditional love and compassion. One type will say, "yes, yes, we should all love unconditionally and have compassion, this is a very beautiful sentiment...you know I am very loving." The other type will meditate on it so much that they become love itself and shine like the sun. So while everybody is waiting around for that "secret" teaching or most powerful mantra, the true sadhaks are living the secrets by taking up fully what is already available.
The second is some advice from Khandro Rinpoche, quoted by my friend Luther, on the resposibilities of experienced practitioners.
Seeing the nature as is should allow you to become more free in embracing everything. Having a glimpse of shunyata (emptiness/fullness) mind and then forcing non-reaction to appearances doesn't sound correct. (having an understanding of) "All appearances are mind" should give more freedom to all appearances. This is a freedom to be involved, a flexibility with which you do not grasp to that moments' expression. Rather than force abiding in shunyata, (one should) always bring about a supple way of freeing everything from your grasping, since you realize there is nothing to discriminate. Non-conceptual compassion is about this. You know things are a projection of your mind, but you take a bug outside.
