Wisdom is Bliss

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears, - Cesare Pavese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Pavese ========================================================================== My True Teacher was Suffering 🙏 In the beginning, prison to me was the worst of hell In the middle, after I met Khenpo Munsel Rinpoche, the hard labour which I had thought as painful and fruitless ever so slowly became my daily Dharma practice. At the end, due to the unrepayable kindness and profoundity of my master, prison became like a land of jewels, and the hatred and anger toward my enemies ended up being completely transformed. I did not return from the prison empty-handed. Suffering, the source of pain, became the catalyst. I was able to develop genuine altruistic aspiration under the quideance of Khenpo Munsel, and through that, to fulfill the purpose of my human birth in this lifetime. But I would also not hesitate to sav that the real Lama, the real teacher who gave me the most invaluable instructions was actually suffering. Suffering was my greatest teacher. Thus, my time in the prison turned out to be a treasure. And I realized from the very core of my being that when you can practice love for your enemies, that is actuallv the greatest love, and it can turn into Bodhicitta. HE Garchen Rinpoche Translation Ina Bieler =========================================================================== ….you may well worry that perhaps some can be happy and yet become worse people, being happy in spite of being egotistical and selfish, and even harming others. But this is precisely where we are wrongly educated and need the Buddha’s super-education. Actually, a happy person is not just someone who shouts out how happy they are. A really happy person is one who feels real streamings of bliss and satisfaction in their body and mind, automatically wants to share that with others, automatically feels it unnecessary for others to be so miserable, and naturally has the skilful gesture that lifts others around them into relative good cheer, even just by their presence. - Wisdom is Bliss – Robert Thurman ============================================================================ I'm tired of grasping after all these thoughts and feelings And being a slave to all that is appealing! If you wish to travel light. Take off all unforgiveness, and take flight! Your selfishness and your fears will only drag you down! Your power is not dependent upon your ability to get over things Your power's rooted in the joy of sacred sound! My prison turned out to be treasure, And Love was the catalyst! I've tasted the pain and the pleasure, And I know Wisdom is Bliss!