Now, if you maintain with your right ethical Dharma practice, with the meditation, breathing exercise, yoga and so on and so forth, what happens is over the time the moment you have any sensation of discomfort, let alone anger, anger did not even emerge, the very sensation of discontent, because the very existence of the anger is discontented state of mind, the very discontented state of mind comes from lack of clarity, lack of awareness in oneself, right? So it is a little bit like a big country, we say we have to do lot things in other country but for their own country they don’t do much for their own people, right? So it’s bit like that, the more you function like that, it doesn’t work. You have to find that internal understanding first.
So therefore the moment you get the sensation of the discomfort and then due to the awareness of the mind, the very sensation of the discomfort, the anger, the very object of the anger, the very identity of the anger, the very emotion of the anger didn’t even exist. Just the sensation of the discomfort, you gaze at it, you see it, you dissolve it instantly, right? So the whole projection of the justification, why you should and should not and all the gossip in your mind didn’t even exist.
So that becomes a reality when you maintain with your practice. Does it make sense to you? But it is a long journey, that is the only problem [haha]. So that’s that.
Just basically the whole understanding of it, it goes from blaming you and me to understanding the very definition of the anger and then it goes from understanding of the emotion of the anger, to understanding the very origin of the anger, not just intellectual understanding but actually seeing it, seeing it. It is a little bit like when the room is very quiet, you can hear the needle drop, right? Your mind has to be that clear and that calm, that aware. If your mind is like so much sound going on, then of course the needle, thousand needles you cannot hear it, right?
So you have to train yourself to be really clear, calm and recognising the distractions. Then you become little bit happy, little bit happy, not so happy, little bit.
His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche in Riga, Latvia
How to understand and apply the Buddhist wisdom of emptiness in everyday life (Q&A 1)
Ganden Center – September 2024 (39′ 12”)
To be continued…
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