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Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Teachings on Bodhicharyavatara
Chapter 8: Meditation
Session 22
Stanzas 83-88
In this session Rinpoche returns to V83, to reiterate a salient point, that if one millionth of the energy a person puts into chasing their desires were invested in a training on the path to enlightenment, that aim would have been easily achieved.
Instead, Shantideva now says, we turn greed and attachment like a poisonous weapon onto ourselves and like a fire it intensifies as it burns, bringing endless pain and suffering.
If we were take ourselves to a remote place in a natural environment amongst trees and wildlife that are away from the sources of our attachment to objects of defilement––as great masters of all traditions have done in the past, we would find that we have less temptation and thus fewer reasons to react badly: the conditions that cause negativity would not arise. This solitude naturally creates freedom from attachment, openness and a joyful mind.
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Beautiful how Rinpoche describes how we can find find peace, calmness and clarity in solitude, for instance in Nature, when we overcome attachement and aversion. Conclusion must be Rinpoche has been there, and/or is always there:) I wish him and all students, sentient beings that peace and freedom with Losar Metal Ox year. It is a long way to transform from ignorance, disturbing emotions and jugdements to complete acceptance and surrender:) Question is: Does the Buddha say or believe that all sentient beings (human beings?) can reach that complete serenity in solitude, survive in nature. Like the yogis of Tibet where able too? We are all so different…some are more courageous then others, more strong, more skillful to survive, no?