Die
the great death,
and in the cool ashes of the
funeral pyre you will
meet what never
dies.
How is
this accomplished?
By letting go of thoughts,
sacrificing all sentiment,
abandoning emotion,
ignoring the
senses.
Solitary,
transcendent, unseeking,
absorbed in stillness and doing
non-doing, you will find that
the universe comes
to you.
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Milarepa,
the twelfth-century Tibetan
yogi who sang wonderful songs about
the proper way to meditate, said that the mind
has more projections than there are dust motes in a
sunbeam and that even hundreds of spears couldn’t put
an end to that. As meditators we might as well stop struggling
against our thoughts and realize that honesty and humor
are far more inspiring and helpful than any
kind of solemn religious striving
for or against
anything.
What is the
practice of repaying wrongs?
When receiving suffering, a practitioner
who cultivates the Path should think to himself:
“During countless ages past I have abandoned the root
and pursued the branches, flowing into the various states
of being, and giving rise to much rancor and hatred—the
transgression, the harm done, has been limitless.
Though I do not transgress now, this suffering
is a disaster left over from former lives —
the results of evil deeds have ripened.
This suffering is not something
given by gods or
humans.”
You should willingly
endure the suffering without anger
or complaint. The sutra says: “Encountering
suffering, one is not concerned. Why? Because one
is conscious of the basic root.” When this attitude toward
suffering is born, you are in accord with inner truth,
and even as you experience wrongs, you advance
on the Path. Thus it is called “the practice
of repaying wrongs”.
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Not all
spiritual paths lead to
the Harmonious Oneness.
Indeed, most are detours and
distractions, nothing
more.
Why not
trust the plainness and
simplicity of the Integral Way?
Living with unconditional sincerity,
eradicating all duality, celebrating the
equality of things, your every
moment will be
in truth.
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Through openness
and gentleness the correct
solution is reached.
Arriving
at the correct solution
to a difficult situation requires a
receptivity to inner truth. Unless we are
willing to put aside the strong emotions of
our egos and devote ourselves to discovering
what is right, there can be no hope of
progress at this time. Help only
comes when we invite it with
a sincere and innocent
attitude.
The
I Ching teaches
a simple but effective
method of influencing difficult
people and arduous situations. It advises
us first to lay aside our prejudices — our feelings
of being wounded, angry, or in the right —
and second to seek to understand the
positions of others and the lesson
that the Sage is teaching
us with the
situation.
Even
when another is
truly out of line, it is only by
accepting this and remaining balanced
that you make it possible for positive change
to occur. Gentleness and understanding
create in others an unconscious
willingness to
be led.
The
superior person
therefore avoids the use of anger
and force in trying times, knowing that they
only prolong conflict. It is far wiser to accept that
each experience we have is necessary for us to learn
something about ourselves and about the higher
laws of life. The greatest openings come when
we meet difficulty with acceptance,
gentleness, and a desire to
understand the lesson
underneath.
The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 61, Chung Fu / Inner Truth
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