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junho 22, 2003
Apenas Lembre do Gerárd Godet
Apenas Lembre do Gerárd Godet
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When it comes to practice, then you are bringing your emotions. Emotions know no logic, although sometimes they pretend that they know logic. Just look at our emotions – at a certain point in time, we like things using a particular logic, and then after a few years, we do not like them, but this time using a different logic! There is no established solid logic. When we are talking about practice, as long as something goes against your ego’s wish, it becomes a practice. And for that, meditation is strongly stressed, because meditation, especially shamatha, isolates the ego from all its distractions. Isolation is the last thing that ego wants, because ego is fundamentally unhappy with its condition. Ego’s very nature is insecurity: insecurity about its own identity and its own existence.
Therefore, ego always wants to have all sorts of excuses and distractions in which it can somehow take refuge, and for a time forget its own insecurity. You should try sitting still somewhere for a minute! Your hand will move towards a newspaper or to a remote control to switch on the television. Ego needs to be occupied, but the more you let it occupy itself with something, the more it settles down and becomes strong. So, we need meditation, which isolates ego from all these distractions. However, studies like this can also become a distraction. So, you have a guru. And if he tells you that your meditation is to drink 38 coca-colas a day, then you should do that! And the less you fabricate the better. Beyond that, I do not know, as I am not your spiritual master. You need to ask your spiritual master, individually.
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If you had wrong views, then no matter how clever or sceptical you normally are, if somebody tells you something incredibly stupid, you will believe it. An example is Cat Stevens. You will also become very critical, always going around looking for faults. It becomes a habit. All journalists are born in this category.
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The Madhyamika is a vast study. Over 200 different authors have written commentaries on the Madhyamika in Tibet alone. But do not think it is hopeless. It is possible for you to learn all this. It is a matter of interest. You can do it, if a person like me has the energy and interest to read a complicated novel like Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, with all those names in Russian, all those happenings and goings back and forth. This is much easier!
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Posted by parada at junho 22, 2003 01:17 AM
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