Listen your true nature

Let's talk a bit of myself yeah I will use this story of my life as example because in some point that a good parabola to show how to listen your true nature.


So my mother got what we call the sick child syndrome and badly that things have been falling in myself for years, so that have make me drop my notes in school when I was kid and so on and so on, recently I have break with my partner and for that time I have been lucky to have really important teaching from my Lamas and until day one I have been stick on it and as I'm retaking the college to go to the psychology I have also follow coaching and course on analyse the partner and both Dharma and Nlp and Psychology have help me to analyse that to finally come to the conclusion on first I was not enough listening myself because in the six years I have been to my partner my intuition my view was always write, second was the finally answer what the meaning of what have say Lama Teunsang on moving somewhere else don't solve the problem, yeah both me and my partner have both this heavy back ground and I realise that dharma have change my life a to z and I have even push to what make me chose this partner more than another and in the end was the bad pattern of the sick child from my mother the way that make you suffer.


On this since this things happening with my partner I have start to really listening my true nature, aware on everything coming in our society we usually don't believe in that but if we were more closer to our true nature just listen a bit of our intuition in steed to listen our ego we will get a better life, so what is about listening to our true nature ?




If we take that example of taking a decision, before ask any advice with someone, first listen to what is inside you, make silence to yourself and just see what come out of the shadow, must of the time is the true answer .


As our true nature is on some point our buddha nature so link to others buddha and connect to everything that make for sure google have less performance than you have, in this point the most we listen to ourself in part not of let the ego drive the game, more in the meditation point of let go of everything and aware on what is coming but the clarity of mind



Listening to our true nature that also make our mind at peace without that we cannot do that and be a bit more sensible in a good way open to that if we truly are aware of our true nature all kind of trouble can be avoid also if we got heavy background on some way we can understand one that karma and two our real nature isn't what other judge by the frame of ego or suffering.
To open our mind to our true nature we have also to stop labelling this and that, in our time we like labelling and doing that cut our true nature clearly because our true nature don't got label.



At the end our true nature is infinite and we are those who put the wall if we open our doors then we will find our true happiness at the end.

The hard choice

In our time it's really hard to follow the buddha path and all kind of spiritual path in general, why because soon we take the blue pill we start the world as is really and not like the Disney land we think the world is.


Be honest with you that blog was suppose to talk on karma but after reflection that have make more sense for me to talk about that.


So when we take the blue pill we think find the spiritual fix will help us to transform and do nothing but sadly take a spiritual path give pain a lot and lot of work on ourself and with others is constant work on body, speech and mind.


Nothing is easy in life and specially take a spiritual path and some of us quite in the way the think, yeah now I'm awake I start to know what is I can face Disney land, but one again is delusion it's like saying I was in coma and I like to come back to that.



That the reason in some way when we take a spiritual path we should take seriously and old habit will clearly not fit with the path and for that we should always think of the why we start this path and what was the motivation knowing that we start analyse what's wrong in our life and change destructive habit for positive one.

Rainstorm

There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to all things.

Hagakure

We all live rainstorms in life and most of this rainstorms we cannot escape due our karma, due our past actions.

So as we can change what's coming to us we can change our attitude, decide firmly to do not react like we react to do not fall in anger or negativity, as we are the creator of our own life, things good and bad are also part of us, past action will affect us but in the way when this arrive they can became our best training in the bodhisattva way.

Knowing the most we study ourself, the most the transformation work to re discover our true nature totally pure of stain, yes we need to struggle in life to discover real compassion if we will not struggle in life we will act with even more ego.

As our existence is condition all of this struggles make us understand on one part what we do wrong and also what we do write, on that we transform ourself in the good way.

So yes we can transform by this struggle as the light doesn’t exist if there's no darkness life is long tunnel with at the end light of enlightenment that up to us to go more faster or not.

Self control

Self-control

One day there was an earthquake that shook the entire Zen temple. Parts of it even collapsed. Many of the monks were terrified. When the earthquake stopped the teacher said, "Now you have had the opportunity to see how a Zen man behaves in a crisis situation. You may have noticed that I did not panic. I was quite aware of what was happening and what to do. I led you all to the kitchen, the strongest part of the temple. It was a good decision, because you see we have all survived without any injuries. However, despite my self-control and composure, I did feel a little bit tense - which you may have deduced from the fact that I drank a large glass of water, something I never do under ordinary circumstances."
One of the monks smiled, but didn't say anything.
"What are you laughing at?" asked the teacher.

"That wasn't water," the monk replied, "it was a large glass of soy sauce."

More self-control

During the civil wars in feudal Japan, an invading army would quickly sweep into a town and take control. In one particular village, everyone fled just before the army arrived - everyone except the Zen master.
Curious about this old fellow, the general went to the temple to see for himself what kind of man this master was. When he wasn't treated with the deference and submissiveness to which he was accustomed, the general burst into anger.
"You fool," he shouted as he reached for his sword, "don't you realize you are standing before a man who could run you through without blinking an eye!"

But despite the threat, the master seemed unmoved.
"And do you realize," the master replied calmly, "that you are standing before a man who can be run through without blinking an eye?"

Give yourself to the dark side !!!

So we are in this world who look for perfect purity, but in our world we can look nice the day have a corporate suite during the day and at night becoming someone else.


We are all judgemental in our society we will say, yeah he/she like this or like aah that not a good person, we have to be clear with ourself in all kind of way we surly not perfect, we can say ah he/she lie or he/she do this or do that but look to again we are not saint we are far from that and even great yogis of the past have being understand what there dark side and they don't have reject it, they have transform in pure compassion.


We all talk about the Buddha teaching or Jesus teaching or Krishna looking deep into the light but how can we see the light without darkness ?




Sometimes we got hardship and first things we do, we just give up say that it end, one against yogis in past have use hardship to realise greater compassion, even Drukpa Kunley have show us on what we call purity is just an idea.


Our dark side is here in the balance and we have to accept it and when we have this big ego pride coming up saying “he / she stupid or whatever” come back on what is the real truth what appear to you is only the pure reflection of yourself .


We look for the perfect person sometimes we so narcissist that we forgot sometimes, yeah Mike Shinoda show us well in that song “hands held high” “it's ironic at time like this you pray but a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday” yeah human we destroy all kind of light we can have to help us to understand what is wrong in us and accept not just in war time but all time in every conflict we got we our partner or work colleges or whatever we forget to turn the light on when we need so we blew our temple or mosque our church in all kind of conflicts.


Yeah at the end is better to accept yourself in all kind of way and be the happy yogi who do not care about who think what of him/her .

Our dark side is part of us so why reject it, why think we are so perfect when we not at all, yeah we talk about give confidence I deal my confidence with you when we don't have in ourself when don't even take the roots of all of this because our real purity that our mind have no stain that our wrong view who think there's something wrong but finally at the end we are all pure by nature. 

Who cannot see your real nature will never understand you

Be honest we work this society of biography on what do you have do in your past, what are you doing now and so on, we also living in this society of fake when friends can become foes in day in minute in second.


Now we are in 21^st and like the buddha say into the past samsara doesn't change, maybe we get more modern but that not really we can call our advantage.


In our time love is business, you give me this and I give you that, lot of things don't go the write way for sure we are not perfect and also for sure we won't be perfect, because the pure perfection is the imperfection.




We have forget our nature our what call Trumgpa Rinpoche our basic goodness, we become that nasty person who in second will forget many years and put it to trash and make full of anger choice that can even hurt more.


Yeah we also forget forgiveness so easily forgiveness have been becoming business, like hmm you want my friendship don't forget to give me your CV and biography, we forget those we judge have also wounds and like us, those we point our finger have suffer like we suffer so are we so perfect or so good to act like we act ?



Life still a battlefield and the less kindness we put in that life the less we will be happy and that not going dance on Friday night will change that our distractions will never bring back our kindness .

The right balance

If you look in internet or facebook or whatever, you will have many religious person told to be like this or like that, when we are practitioner we try to encourage others to be better but sometimes when situation show on we forget ourself to be like we preach.


As buddhist we should act compassionate and love to each other, I have a resent story from someone form what I can call my dharma family in India was telling me I love everybody but I hate this kind of people and I just say to him, so you lie to yourself you don't love everybody as this kind are beings and advice him to think that all beings have our mother no matter what we are now and we should take care of them with kindness.


In some others situation we will be kind in our work with all customers and colleague, kind to all kind of beings and come back home and totally be unkind with the partner we live in, that the same things of preaching good and practising bad.


We are not perfect and nobody is, we like to build barrier as nation, as race or religion but all of this just disappear when we finally realise we are all humans and when we drink water that water still come from the same earth, that us put the label of the region that come from where that come from but at the end this water still come from the earth.


In spiritual path soon we hit the tern anger and hate it's the time to ask ourself, do I have practice in the good way or do that is real or do that person isn't a living beings like me or are we really separate ?
After that is good to remind ourself that the good and bad come and go into our life that all karma, but we find karma excuse to be cruel to someone or to forget that we practice the way, in every situation there's a way to came out, unconditional love is ones again the part of this, recognise that the person we judge is same of us, have feeling like we have, have sensibility like we have.




Buddha say that when we have grief with someone or something the better way to heal, is dig a big hole to earth, drop the grief in it, put the earth on top and let the grass cover it and forgive, in our time we want always seek revenge of sometimes there's some miss understanding make this people think you are like this and because this people have another view he/she think like that and there's a conflict.


They was a psychologist have made a experience with his child one day for 6 month he try this experience, he pain a cube one face red one face green and every morning he show the red face to the child and say what you can see and the child say red and what I see and the child say red when the father was in front of the green face.


This story to explain since day one we train ourself to one view but sometimes hold this view can damage others, that the reason when we practice the spiritual path we change our view to have a kind view whatever is our path.


In our time sometimes we have to ask ourself do I apply what I preach, if not maybe we should follow our own advices and progress in our way, that good to help others but in same time we don't have to forget to help ourself.


We have to be always in the right balance

Offering

In a past life of the Great Dharma Patron, King Ashoka, he was just a small boy playing in the sand with other children. Pretending to be a king with the other children as his ministers, they built a sand castle which included a treasury. At this time, Buddha Shakyamuni passed the children playing in the sand on his alms round. Upon seeing the Buddha, the small child was very inspired. Immediately he bent over the sand castle and picked up the imaginary treasury room of the castle in his hands. He quickly walked over to the Buddha to place these imaginary riches within his begging bowl. At first Ananda moved to stop the boy, thinking with a loving heart that this sand would ruin the food within the Buddha's begging bowl. Yet the Buddha stopped Ananda from preventing this offering. The Buddha was so tall, so one of this disciples bent down in front of him and requested the small boy to stand on top of his back. Doing so, the boy joyfully placed the imaginary treasury within the Buddha's begging bowl. Following this event, Ananda asked the Buddha why he had allowed the boy to put sand in his begging bowl. Smiling, the Buddha said that two hundred years after his mahaparinirvana a universal king (Skt. Chakravartin) would arise in India, and that he would perform extensive activities in support of establishing and spreading the Buddhadharma throughout the region. The Buddha said that his name would be King Ashoka, and that this very boy would become that king due to the incredibly vast merits he developed by offering the Buddha a handful of sand with a genuinely loving heart.

As told by Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche

1 in 100

OK today this reflection come to me by walking in supermarket and look to everybody, so let's be honest are not each second living in survival mode, soon we are in school first things we hear it's forget your dream life is like this !


Later on pear around us always discourage us to be what we want to be at the end we finish like we are not happy sick and hateful for all kind of beings because we want keep the little we have been able to keep.


Even worst when we meet someone thinking differently and who him/her succeed in what he/she want to do first things we are suspicious looking for everything bad in that, we think that not “normal” to succeed .


When we look to the path in buddhism, whatever you do in life if we take all kind of examples like Marpa or Milarepa they have make the difference by the one in the one hundreds, in the 21^st century isn't just enough to be a practitioner you have to slam the norm and the life in some kind of way, we always say as buddhist yeah live your life how do you want live we are 24/7 in survival mode, we are told to do this or that living in pure shit brain drop by media of all kinds.


21^st bodhisattva have to be strong taking the stress but he have also to give both kindness and unconditional love be successful in his/her own well fare as well in the well fare of all beings a real bodhisattva will never be in survival mode and he will show his greatness to the world to inspire the world is the one in the one hundreds .



Yes or life is hard but, we accept to live the way we live because it's simple to live in dark isn't simple to live in light, we are powerful beyond measure that our light in frighting us not or darkness.

TWELVE LINKS OF DEPENDENT ORIGINATION

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Cyclic existence continues to evolve through the power of the unbroken relationship of the twelve links of dependent origination. What are these twelve? They are (1)ignorance, which afflicts wandering beings by keeping them from seeing true reality. In obscuring the perception of true reality, ignorance also functions as the source for the subsequent links, such as karmic formation, by grasping as if there were an “I” and “mine.” (2)Formation afflicts wandering beings by implanting the seeds of subsequent existence in the consciousness. In this way, when the root text states: “Wandering beings are afflicted due to…,” it should be understood to apply to all the remaining links as well, from consciousness on. Accordingly, (3) consciousness becomes infused with habitual tendencies and leads sentient beings to the place of their birth. (4) Name and form take hold of the body of one’s coming existence. (5) The six sense sourcesbring the state of name and form to completion. (6)Contact determines the experience of an object based on the coming together of three factors: object, faculty, and cognition. (7) Sensation experiences the various types of enjoyable and painful karmic ripening. (8) Cravingcreates the cohesion necessary for a future existence. (9)Grasping totally binds one to such an existence. (10)Becoming brings about the actual acquisition of this birth. (11) Birth serves as the support for the suffering of old age and so on. (12) Aging and death is the essence of suffering. 

Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya’s Madhyantavibhaga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham, pages 34-35.

Love is wisdom itself !!!

"I'm not the one to say that kind of stuff like that because the many mistakes I made in past and even today made me everything except a saint but I know one things that the light of love and compassion is more strong that all the anger and violence, I know that the wisdom is beyond walls and actions because the real wisdom is love itself, who talk about love and trust should think about the real love the one without attachment as we are all Buddha by nature, love isn't what we think, love isn't punishment to do this or that love forgive, love as no value of time love keep forever, we made the big mistakes to confuse love and envy, we want be satisfy but forget love is always satisfy us anyway, who are looking for satisfaction in way want satisfy is ego not the love, love have many tastes but cannot be catch by hands, love is powerful beyond measure but not able to grab by anything, love have no body and form is love yeah love made no sins because there's no mistakes, love is real when we make it real love isn't a money we exchange for good behaviour who think that have never know what is real love, yeah love is faith even in deep hell burning love will be always there"

I'm no one to saying that kind of things but I know one thing that real love isn't what we think and is always on your side !!!!