There are some who wish to perfect themselves and who train themselves in this way: "One single self we shall tame, one single self we shall pacify, one single self we shall lead to final nirvana." But those with compassion should not train themselves in such a way. On the contrary, they should say this: "My own self I will place into Suchness, and so that all the world may be helped, I will place all beings into Suchness, and I will lead to nirvana the whole immeasurable world of beings."
-Diamond Sutra
-Diamond Sutra
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Re: Resons for training
Fri, July 6, 2007 - 10:29 AMaah. beautiful bodhisattva
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Re: Resons for training
Mon, July 23, 2007 - 10:43 PMWe are all in this together, thanks for the reminder of why I walk this path. -
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Re: Reasons for training
Mon, September 3, 2007 - 9:02 PMRecenly,I was attacked by a big Bum.....the perp(-ertrator)had bragged using such a self desciption, and carried on in a crowd being rude and intrusive around children and to women.This was out at the beach board walk and I was situated by some drummers.I confronted him nicely(really) and he called me out. I stepped into a clearspace as so not to discomfort or injure the crowd and smiled at him in a relaxed posture when he began his assalt by pushing my chest as hard as he could but since I was 'rooted' his force repulsed him backward away from me.I had no hate or ill will and I continued to smile(sincerely).I watched him channel his life angst and like a child in tantrum he rained down many blows and kicks.I countered every move so precisely that I never left my relaxed standing position.He was exausted after and welted from my boney blocks and reverted to empty threats and I thanked him and stepped aside.He didn't follow and moved on.The entire crowd thanked me as he'd been harrassing there all day! It took me 5 minutes to make good the atmosphere and I did it with a kind heart and years of practice for that to be just so....I don't train just for me.That would be selfish.I do train for myself ,but I honor my master with control,and the aggressor by holding back(I did edit hurtful techniques)as in a way we are all one.-----another reason for training
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Re: Resons for training
Mon, November 19, 2007 - 7:08 PM"What does it mean to say that the basic and ultimate reality of all things is emptiness, or freedom?"
From the Naked Liberation Through Naked Vision, Identifying Intelligence [Padma Sambhava]:
"To introduce the three point entrance to this itself--
Realize past mind as trackless, clear, and void,
Future mind as unproduced and new,
And present awareness as staying natural, uncontrived.
Thus knowing time in it's very ordinary way.
When you nakedly regard yourself,
Your looking is transparent, nothing to be seen.
This is naked, immediate, clear intelligence,
It is clear voidness with nothing established,
Purity of clarity-voidness nonduality:
Not permanent, free of any intrinsic status,
Not annihilated, bright and distinct,
Not a unity, multidiscerning clarity,
Without plurality, indivisible, one in taste,
Not derivative, self-aware, it is this very reality."
"It is accessible in principle because it is already the deepest reality of the present, the actual condition of even the most ordinary. You must look "nakedly" at yourself, reversing the aim of seeing back upon itself. You look for that fixed, independent, isolated self that feels like the kernel within you, out of which your drives and thoughts emerge. But when you turn 180 degrees to look within the looking, you find nothing has intrinsic status, nothing standing independent in it's own right."
--The Tibetan Book of the Dead as translated by Robert A.F. Thurman
My reason for training is to access the being//non-being natural state.. I train to become most fully myself.. to realize the face I have/had before my mother and father were born. I train to reinstate the reality of being ultimately and nakedly unfettered and free to make positive change in this world.. I train so that I create space around myself for others to realize themselves as well.
This is my reason for training.
