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Fredrik1
2018-02-09 12:50

Remedy for Obstacles, Fear and Worry (t)

"A student was experiencing a lot of obstacles, as well as fear, unhappiness and worry. Rinpoche (Lama Zopa Rinpoche reds.anm)advised that while our difficulties appear real, they are merely labeled. Rinpoche also offered extensive advice on cherishing others and said that cherishing even one sentient being is a gateway to happiness. My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one, I heard about your difficulties. As you know, all these difficulties do not exist from their own side, even though they appear like that to our hallucinated mind. The difficulty appears to exist from its own side, to exist by itself. It appears real, using ordinary language. Basically, what you believe is difficult is just your mind thinking, your mind merely labelling, “This is difficult.” Your mind is merely labelling that it is difficult and that’s how it came into existence. When the difficulty appeared to you, even though it is merely imputed, it appears totally opposite, as though it never came from the mind and it was never merely labeled by the mind. That is totally a hallucination. For example, we are living our whole life in a hallucination, so like that, everything—including the I, form, sounds, smell, tangible objects; everything that appears to our senses, to our hallucinated mind—appears as real, as if something is existing from there. However, it doesn’t appear real unless our mind merely imputes it first. Everything that appears real is not true, it is a total hallucination. It is a totally hallucinated real I, a totally hallucinated real action and a totally hallucinated real object. While everything—I, action, object—is totally empty of existing from its own side, it exists in mere name. Everything—I, action, object—exists in mere name; it is merely labeled by the valid mind, on the valid base. What we think is difficult, in a complicated way, is all made up by our own concepts, and is to do with our own concepts. Let me say something, what the great bodhisattva Shantideva has advised: Whatever befalls me, I shall not disturb my mental joy; For having been made unhappy, I shall not accomplish what I wish, And my virtues will decline.   - [Bodhicaryavatara, Ch. 6, v. 9] There are so many problems in the West; also in the East, but especially in the West. If there is a way for the problem to be fixed or mended, what is there to dislike about it? If there is a method then do it, and if there is no method and no way to fix it, then why dislike it? If there is a way to fix the problem, then do it, and if there isn’t, then no need to be worried. It just makes us mentally sick and it also causes physical sickness. As it increases more, it brings more problems. Why be unhappy about something If it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something If it cannot be remedied?   - [Bodhicaryavatara, Ch. 6, v. 10] Please think about this. It is what Shantideva advised and this is my advice to you. When you think this way, it will bring happiness to your life. Generally, if our motivation is the self-cherishing thought, then of course, as it is mentioned by Shantideva in the Bodhicaryavatara: If I do not actually exchange my happiness For the sufferings of others, I shall not attain the state of buddhahood And even in cyclic existence shall have no joy.   - [Bodhicaryavatara, Ch. 8, v. 131] Enlightenment is the complete cessation of all the obscurations and total completion of all the realizations, however, if our motivation is the self-cherishing thought we cannot achieve this for sentient beings. Even while we are in Samsara there is no happiness or success, leave aside the happiness and success beyond this life. Even in this life, the works of this life cannot succeed. All our unhappiness and obstacles come from the self-cherishing thought, and by cherishing our mothers, this leads to happiness and is the door to receiving infinite qualities. Should even all the beings of the three realms without exception Become angry at me, humiliate, criticize, threaten, or even kill me, I seek your blessings not to be agitated, but to complete the perfection of patience That works for their benefit in response to their harm.   - [Guru Puja, v. 103]" Läs hela artikeln här: https://www.lamayeshe.com/advice/remedy-obstacles-fear-and-worry

 "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible"   H.H Dalai Lama

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