So therefore as a Buddhist practitioner, from my understanding, is that solitude is necessary.
The solitude doesn’t mean that you have to go up in the mountain. I always say this to other people, unless you want to make a very good documentary. [haha] Ah you’re laughing finally, ah. If you want to show yourself with millions of views, yeah why not do that, you want to be impressive. If the spiritual journey meant being impressive to other people then a little bit here and there you may get excitement and little bit of positive qualities but eventually you will be going to plunge into suffering.
So therefore a little bit of practice in solitude is necessary. Solitude means 5, 10 minutes in the morning, 5,10 minutes in the evening, not too much. You don’t have to rush it.
Like an example in our Vajrayana context, we chant a lot of mantra. But if we chant a lot of mantra with no sense of awareness in the mind then there is no purpose, there is no meaning to that, there is no benefit to it. So the body, speech and mind, all has to intertwine in the one direction. If that is maintained with the sense of recognition towards the ordinary distraction and the subtle distraction then the result is there.
His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche in Riga, Latvia
How to understand and apply the Buddhist wisdom of emptiness in everyday life
Ganden Center – September 2024 (16′ 30”)
To be continued…
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