{"id":2936,"date":"2014-03-19T16:29:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2014-08-16T18:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T17:59:07","slug":"2936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/2936\/","title":{"rendered":"JOURNEY INTO BUDDHISM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Journey into Buddhism<\/b><\/p>\n

In the years following Buddha Shakyamuni\u2019s demise Buddhism was propagated in all sorts of ways; mendicant monks travelling around the country spreading the word to name but one.\u00a0 Following the famous conversion by Emperor Ashoka, Buddhism became enmeshed into the political system of his ever expanding Empire and was soon adopted, perhaps not always willingly, by his subjects.\u00a0 Much proselytizing went on.\u00a0 However, fast forward to more contemporary times and we find most Buddhist traditions don\u2019t set out to make converts.\u00a0 Indeed, the Dalai Lama has been heard to suggest that \u201ceveryone should pursue the religion of their homeland to find happiness & fulfilment \u2026\u2026.\u201d\u00a0Many teachers have to be \u2018requested\u2019, some up to three times, to give teachings.\u00a0 In the West, one has to find Buddhism \u2013 it doesn\u2019t find you.\u00a0 So how then does an early middle-aged Englishman, professing no more than a rather woolly amalgam of atheism, humanism and agnosticism, and decidedly not searching for anything spiritual, end up involved in Buddhism?<\/p>\n

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My answer, nearly a quarter of a century ago, was \u201cby chance\u201d or \u201cI stumbled across it\u201d.\u00a0 But that of course was before I had much idea of the weird and wonderful ways of karma.<\/p>\n

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In the late eighties and early nineties I was employed by a chamber of commerce\u00a0to run government funded contracts promoting business and education links.\u00a0 This involved getting the local business community and the secondary and tertiary education establishments to work closely together so that school and university leavers were well suited to jobs within local industry and commerce.\u00a0 Although often stimulating, the task involved much small \u2018p\u2019 politicking, especially where the local authority was concerned.\u00a0 And trying to make progress with often conflicting agendas, both hidden and overt, made for a stressful job.<\/p>\n

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After a particularly tiresome day, I was thumbing through the local paper and spied an ad for a talk at the local library about the stress-relieving and health-giving benefits of Transcendental Meditation.\u00a0 (TM)\u00a0 It was a wet and windy evening and I was surprised to see the upstairs library room packed with soggy people eagerly awaiting the presentation.\u00a0 A rather shy young man introduced himself then showed a short but well produced and convincing video promoting the meditation technique, including many affirmations from users and medical practitioners as to its efficacy.\u00a0 He then requested questions.\u00a0 I asked one of the first, the answer to which must have lost him a large number of potential clients; how much does it cost?\u00a0 \u00a0He wasn\u2019t a salesman and, to his credit, he didn\u2019t beat about the bush but came straight out with \u00a3170, if I remember correctly.\u00a0 At which point, over a third of the audience got up and left.<\/p>\n

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Given my stressful work situation, I decided to pay up and do the course which, if my memory is accurate, consisted of a group session of about a dozen, learning the nuts and bolts of the technique, followed by an individual session with the teacher where he took each one of us through our first taste of actually \u2018doing it\u2019, then a number of optional follow-up group meditation sessions.\u00a0 To this day, I can still remember that individual session as being the most intense meditative experience I\u2019ve ever had.\u00a0 It was somewhat disturbing at the time.\u00a0 With hindsight, not surprising really, as it was the first time I\u2019d ever attempted anything like that.\u00a0 I was converted.\u00a0 The technique worked but, to my mind, it was purely secular, having no spiritual connotation.<\/p>\n

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So, life continued.\u00a0 I was always first in the office in the mornings and would grab twenty minutes to meditate in the peace and quiet before my colleagues arrived.\u00a0 Again in the evening I\u2019d put in a session after the cleaners had left and before going home.\u00a0 Work was just as manic, but didn\u2019t seem half as irksome as before; and people sometimes commented as to how cheerful I was.\u00a0 My one hundred and twenty quid was money well spent.\u00a0 I continued practicing twice a day for about eight or nine months then gradually lapsed until ceasing meditation completely.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t seem to need it any more.<\/p>\n

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About a year later, I received a phone call from an ex colleague who remembered my meditation days, and saying that she\u2019d seen meditation classes advertised at the local interfaith centre, wanted to attend, but not on her own and would I come with her.\u00a0 I agreed.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0As we sat waiting for the session to commence, listening to about fifteen others, we realised that this was a regular weekly event; part of a series of such events it seemed. \u00a0\u00a0The young woman teacher came in and sat at the front and introduced the subject of \u2018emptiness\u2019.\u00a0 \u201cEverything exists in dependence on other things\u201d and \u201cnothing exists inherently from its own side\u201d she said, and went on to explain quite well what she meant.\u00a0 This is when it dawned on me that the session was about Buddhism.\u00a0 Talk about being tipped in at the deep end!\u00a0 She finished the event by leading a meditation session; not at all like the meditation I\u2019d been taught at the TM class.<\/p>\n

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I pondered on the subject matter of the evening on the way home.\u00a0 I\u2019d never before thought about the nature of reality.\u00a0 Like most people I suspect, I had a pretty simple but fixed idea about what\u00a0 was real and unreal.\u00a0 Her ideas seemed simple but in one sense, quite profound.\u00a0\u00a0 I was interested enough to attend again the following week.\u00a0 My friend and ex colleague wasn\u2019t so impressed and went off to do acupuncture.\u00a0 With hindsight, I can see that these events all came together at just the right time.\u00a0 A few years earlier and I\u2019d have dismissed the whole thing out of hand.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s all away with the fairies\u201d I\u2019d have thought.\u00a0 As a late developer so to speak, I\u2019d reached a level of maturity and had enough of life\u2019s experiences to approach such ideas with an open mind.\u00a0 I continued to attend the weekly sessions and was introduced to the basics of karma, past and future lives, boddhichita , the Four Noble Truths and all the usual subjects that the readers will be familiar with.\u00a0 Within a few weeks, our teacher became ordained as a nun; we all contributed to her first set of robes. She\u2019s now a senior teacher within her tradition.<\/p>\n

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I served my Buddhist \u2018apprenticeship\u2019 with the NKT, in and around centres in West Yorkshire, with twice yearly visits to the Manjushri Centre at Connishead Priory near Ulverston in the Southern Lakes.\u00a0 I took refuge vows quite early on, Boddhisatva vows later and was granted a series of empowerments as time went by.\u00a0 It was customary then within the NKT to grant empowerments too frequently and to those, including me, with neither the knowledge nor the background appropriate for the practice.\u00a0 So, although I see my initial vows as genuine, the rest I\u2019ve now sort of \u2018written off\u2019 to experience.<\/p>\n

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Although I know that the NKT has some talented teachers and many sincere practitioners, most readers will be aware of the organisation\u2019s situation regarding certain Dharma Protector practices and its relationship with HH The Dalai Lama.\u00a0 For these reasons, and because of conversations I had with people in both Dharamsala and Bodhgaya, I decided to leave the NKT some years ago.<\/p>\n

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In 2007\/8 I visited Samye Ling for the Christmas\/New Year course and took refuge vows again with Lama Yeshe the following Easter.\u00a0 I\u2019ve attended each Christmas\/New Year course ever since.\u00a0 In April last year (2013) I relocated to the Centre, or to be precise, to Garwald, a mile and a half up the road from it.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been given permission from Lama Yeshe, Samye Ling\u2019s Abbot, to convert a derelict barn into a dwelling, and here is where I\u2019m planning to end my days.\u00a0 Having gone through the rather arduous Scottish planning and building regulations process, I\u2019ve been busy building walls, constructing a roof and digging trenches for installing utilities, all the while living in my motorhome on site.<\/p>\n

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Admittedly, I don\u2019t visit the Temple very often but, simply being part of the Samye Ling Community and living in such a beautiful area, for me are a great help to Buddhist practice.\u00a0\u00a0 Dealing with the abovementioned bureaucracy and all the attendant delays and supply problems of a self-build project are certainly a practice in patience.\u00a0 And a personal adaptation of the practice of Tong len helps with the rigors and sheer physicality of building work.<\/p>\n

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I do finally feel that I\u2019m at home.<\/p>\n

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