Monday, December 10, 2012

Stop Fighting. Be Patient



The force behind transcendental patience is not driven by premature impulse nor by anything else of that nature.  It is very slow and sure and continuous, like the walk of an elephant.  Patience also feels space.  It never fears new situations, because nothing can surprise the bodhisattva*--nothing.  Whatever comes--be it destructive, chaotic, creative, welcoming, or inviting--the bodhisattva is never disturbed, never shocked, because he is aware of the space between the situation and himself.  Once one is aware of the space between the situation and oneself, then anything can happen in that space.  Whatever occurs, does so in the midst of space.  Nothing takes place "here" or "there" in terms of relationship or battle.  Therfore transcendental patience means that we have a flowing relationship with the world, that we do not fight anything.  -Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

I read this last night and had a moment of A Ha!  I went to bed peacefully, without any reason to debate my thoughts against my thoughts.  Here is a quick visualization:  We are all sitting lively in our regal and comfortable chairs, whatever that may be for you, (mine is a lilac velvet), and we are experiencing our breath, experiencing the environment and all of the details including the changes in air and fragrance.   No matter what flutters in our vision we can see it for what it is and value it and then choose how we will partake in the fluttering of it's existence.  After choosing our part, we are still in our posture of queens and kings and we are not lost.  We are experiencing crazy and tranquil, like and dislike as the same, with just a pinch of a different flutter.


*Bodhisattva: Sanskrit term often associated with an ordinary person on the path to awakenment.  Or a someone that is on the path to awakenment to reality for the benefits of all beings and in Mahayana buddhist waits to become awake until all beings have as well.  "Bodhi" often translated as awakening.  "Sattva" often translated as existence or reality or purity.

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