So many people, so many of us, have gone through a very rough life, lot of trauma, lot of abuse, lot of confusion, and then we always blame other people also. We blame ourself also, we blame other people also. No matter how many times you blame other or no matter how many times you blame yourself, really doesn’t make it better.
Unhappy person, you can win an argument, so many times, and you can still be a miserable person.
So, from my understanding, like right now I’m sitting on the throne, it looks like I never argue a day in my life, it looks like that but it is not. There is so many “behind the scenes”. I’m sitting on the throne, right now it looks like a figure who never had to argue, never had to have any stress, never had to go through suffering and so on. Because I wear my clothes, it looks clean. It looks like that but it is not.
Because I spend a lot of time also thinking about “Oh, this person did this to me, that person did this to me and that person did that to me and me and me” and then also “I made a mistake because of that and I made a mistake because of this” and then you kind of go into this kind of a rabbit hole, never ending rabbit hole.
Then, at the end you have to come to a conclusion, of course nowadays with all this different psychiatric and therapeutic world and they have so many names for it, but at the end it is all suffering. Whether you recognise by thousand names whether you recognise by one hundred names, it is still suffering. It is not a different kind of suffering, it is just a mental suffering. The only way to overcome the mental suffering is acknowledgment of the fixation and illusion from it. The sooner you go through that, the faster you will be happy.
There is a lot of names that we put upon ourself. But at the end, the sooner we come to an acceptance the existence of the fixation in oneself, the sooner we can dissolve the illusion of the fixation. So then sooner we can dissolve the illusion from the fixation as well. Yeah, you understand?
So that’s that.
Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche – Illusory Body and Mind
Morning session – August 11, 2024 (45’ 06’’)
Paldenshangpa La Boulaye
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