Others

 We live with others, and so we have to interact with them from time to time. Not everyone sees things in exactly the same way, and so it is easy to be drawn into conflict. We want to put them right, and they us. It can feel as if we are being assailed at every moment!

 If we ‘know’, then we remain confident and at peace. If we ‘KNOW’, then we remain arrogant and in conflict with others. To test whether we are confident or arrogant is to ask, “Is there an after taste?”

 Most of the time we want to feel good, and may even practise the Dharma in order to achieve this. Living with others may challenge this feeling. The more we recognise, the more our position changes in regard to others: we acknowledge responsibility. It’s easy to say the word “Compassion,” but it isn’t so easy to achieve that understanding, unless we genuinely rest in empty essence, cognisant nature and unconfined compassion.

 It is part of our nature to express, and the expression of this essence is where the six paramitas come into play: generosity, patience, discipline, perseverance, concentration and transcendent knowledge.

 We are all students (sentient beings), but there are times when we become the teacher (enlightened attitude). As such, we only do what is best for the the other person in front of us: we are not trying to out do them!

 They, like ourselves, are buddhas. We just don’t recognise this fact fully, and haven’t let go of all our karmic load yet.

 If we see this world as ‘This is all there is’, then it is a mundane reality. If we see it as full of celestial beings, then it is a supra-mundane reality.

In radiant emptiness we remain confident.
Empty essence encompasses every thing.
In compassion there is only other,
and that is oneness.

 Love cannot be 50-50…
it has to be 100%

 It’s a serious business is love! 😉