An outlaw; a rebel.
By
and large, human beings tend to prefer to fit in to society by
following accepted rules of etiquette and being gentle, polite and
respectful. The irony is that this is also how most people imagine a
spiritual person should behave. When a so-called dharma practitioner
is seen to behave badly, we shake our heads over her audacity at
presenting herself as a follower of the Buddha. Yet such judgements
are better avoided, because to "fit in" is not what a
genuine dharma practitioner strives for. Think of Tilopa, for
example. He looked so outlandish that if he turned up on your
doorstep today, odds are you would refuse to let him in. And you
would have a point. He would most probably be almost completely
naked; if you were lucky, he might be sporting some kind of G-string;
his hair would never have been introduced to shampoo; and protruding
from his mouth would quiver the tail of a live fish. What would your
moral judgement be of such a being? "Him! A Buddhist? But he's
tormenting that poor creature by eating it alive!" This is how
our theistic, moralistic and judgemental minds work. In fact, they
work in a very similar way to those of the world's more puritanical
and destructive religions. Of course, there is nothing necessarily
wrong with morality, but the point of spiritual practice, according
to the vajrayana teachings, is to go beyond all our concepts,
including those of morality. (Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, Not for
Happiness)
this blog today after long time is a good
reminder for us to do not wanted to fit to much in our society.
When we look to our society, to be honest the
honest people work like hell to get a job or even a pay when the
dishonest people get full furnish flat by our joyous government, so
yes east or west or system is totally screw up not just for that, but
most of the time to be good with our society, we have to follow so
much the social norm that we loose or identity.
Rebel in our time are fashion and show picture
on Facebook what kind of rebel is that, Madona ?
Even worst Dharma become fashion, the Buddha
himself have predict that time and this time is here and now.
Last week Garchen Rinpoche have told us how
much is important to build Dharma centre and to practice in our
country where there's no Dharma, when we look to past master as
Tilopa we can see how he was totally out of tune compare to the
society .
On that we should think, ho yes we have to
sustain ourself with food and so on but there's many community in the
worlds who sustain themselves by themselves so our attachment to
society become viral, like this permanent need to speak on facebook
or drop news .
But ones again we can work also to transform
that into dharma, or society is good and bad in same time and we
cannot change it but we can change the way we act on it, in our time
we have to remind ourself that a dharma practitioner don't strive to
fit in the society but strive to fit enlightenment, Garchen Rinpoche
was a great example no sleeping only meditation and we still think
that impossible ?
So manual of the little urban yogi, don't look
on what think other carry on your practice 24 /7
