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 Posted: Thu 7:50, 29 Aug 2013 Post subject: The Dharma Princess Diaries |
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The Dharma Princess Diaries,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
I been trying to do this noble thing of reading a book about the Bodhisattva Vows. Sounds scary,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but really, it not. It quite beautiful actually - a set of vows that forms a kind of guideline for living a life that is entirely structured on not harming anyone and being of total benefit to the whole world around you. which is what a Bodhisattva does, of course.
There are 18 main vows,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which I just gone through, and 46 secondary ones. But okay, let deal with the 18 first - that a lot for a girl to get her head around. #4: I don think I be making up my own fallacious teachings any time soon and starting my own dark cult : safe.
Then, there the 18th Vow: Giving up the thought of altruism and giving up on Enlightenment. The one that states we have broken /transgressed the vow if "we think from the bottom of our heart that we will never help a certain being again,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], no matter what happens. We are truly determined never to do anything to help a certain being again."
You know what, the other 17 were do-able. Then you get this one. BAM! I put the book down and went for a drink.
Ooooooooh, this is gonna be a tough one,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], especially with all the people who have really be testing my patience of late. I mean, there are people whose cars you want to just bash up right? Break their legs (okay, maybe just a finger or two) when they not looking? Squeeze them into a corner of the room and bitch-cuss them for 3 hours,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the way the girls did to each other in boarding school. AND THEN,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in a dramatic last gesture, we declare,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "I want nothing to do with you ever again. You can damn well go to hell and STAY THERE!"
Enlightenment? "HUH!" We think, "See if I ever help you get out of that big stinking pit you creating for yourself. I save everyone on this planet except YOU. You can damn well stay down here and rot."
Except now, of course,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there this vow,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which tells me clearly that I really shouldn think like this. "Come now, Jamie, it not nice."
Anyway, logically it isn possible - you don become a Buddha, someone who has completely realised compassion for every sentient being EXCEPT ONE. Who ever heard of a Buddha with a grudge, right?
I huff and I puff, and then, eventually concede that, "Yar, okay okay, Asangha and Atisha and Shantideva and all those other Bodhisattva type people were right."
There a lot to this - it not just about holding back from scratching up that f#$*er car but about trying to develop a mind that will never give up on anyone, no matter how horrid they are. It about developing a thought that isn angry at the person who doing all this shit to you right now, but feeling great sadness for that nasty, painful situation they may well be creating for themselves later. It also about not allowing yourself to lose all your power and goodness to a moment of anger - it just isn worth it to stoop yourself to those levels just for a moment of retribution.
So I didn scratch up the b$ car. I just vented about him on Facebook - and heck, I didn even tag his name to the post. And I promise, I will cut my nails before I see him and not wear my stilettos, so there is nothing to stab him with. At most, I will corner him and have a bitchfest, but I won raise my voice, and it will last not more than half an hour.
I am well on my way to becoming a Bodhisattva. Yes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I am.
PS: I haven actually taken the vows yet, but we been advised that it is always something good to work towards; and one of the best ways to accomplish this is to start living as if we have already taken the vows. No more cussing then,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], really. Om.
You don have to help people reach nirvana - just don kill them, sleep with them (if they married), steal from them and so forth. If they want to burn in hell for eternity for a life of sin, you don have to feel pangs of compassionate guilt for them. Actually, you can smile and be happy over the fact that they are writhing in fiery pits for eternity, instead of you!
Plus you don have to sit in that really uncomfortable position in the middle of the pond. on a giant lily pad. hoping the durned thing doesn suddenly cave in at any moment, and cause you to drown - before you become a Bodhisattva!
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