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Bodhisattvas Jellyfish & Nuns.
by sherab zangpo Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:35 am
From Chogyam Trungpa's publication The Lions Roar, an introduction to tantra.
"Patience is very interesting. Usually when we talk about patience,
we have in mind someone who doesn’t react to problems or does not even see the
problem, because he or she is above the problem. We think of an unperturbed
person who is above all the nitty-gritty and hassles, someone who is raised above
all that. We think of somebody like a nun or a jelly fish. If you had such a
person in your car, that person would sit beautifully and quietly in the back
seat or at the wheel, and if there was a traffic jam, he or she would still be
grinning with enjoyment, not noticing the traffic jam. Then when the cars started
to move again, he or she would go along happily.
This kind of approach is superficial. We have to think
twice, rather than go for a simple minded approach like that. The Bodhisattva
is highly aware of the air pollution or the traffic jam or other problems going
on in the world that could cause a mental freak out. But he regards these as facts
of life. He is not philosophical particularly, not just philosophizing the
whole thing. He or She does not shield themselves with a sense of humor, as if
to say the whole thing was a big joke. Everything for him or her is very direct
and human".
Sherab
"Patience is very interesting. Usually when we talk about patience,
we have in mind someone who doesn’t react to problems or does not even see the
problem, because he or she is above the problem. We think of an unperturbed
person who is above all the nitty-gritty and hassles, someone who is raised above
all that. We think of somebody like a nun or a jelly fish. If you had such a
person in your car, that person would sit beautifully and quietly in the back
seat or at the wheel, and if there was a traffic jam, he or she would still be
grinning with enjoyment, not noticing the traffic jam. Then when the cars started
to move again, he or she would go along happily.
This kind of approach is superficial. We have to think
twice, rather than go for a simple minded approach like that. The Bodhisattva
is highly aware of the air pollution or the traffic jam or other problems going
on in the world that could cause a mental freak out. But he regards these as facts
of life. He is not philosophical particularly, not just philosophizing the
whole thing. He or She does not shield themselves with a sense of humor, as if
to say the whole thing was a big joke. Everything for him or her is very direct
and human".
Sherab
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