Life is ‘Manure’
From a relative point of view
life is
sometimes beautiful
and sometimes shit.
From an absolute point of view
life is
beautiful shit.
From a relative point of view, the statement that life is sometimes beautiful and sometimes shit means that we are caught up in desire and aversion.
From an absolute point of view, the statement that life is beautiful shit means seeing the unity of the two truths.
Life – our confused state – is manure. It’s our path, and what we have to work: this can bring forth fruit, which is enlightenment. That’s if we work in an intelligent way! This means having the correct view, and not a mistaken view.
To think that Life and the Earth are beautiful is to give rise to attachments.
If that is our goal, we merely become stuck,
trying to make perfect that which can never be perfect.
This is the vicious cycle of existence.
To realise that Life and the Earth is beautiful because we recognise attachment
is to give rise to detachment.
If that is our goal, then Enlightenment must certainly follow.
This is the end of the vicious cycle of existence.
Shit is our confused, disturbing emotions – our attachments, our beautiful adornments. It is a by- product of an attachment to an “I”….“I” do this, “I” do that”.
We need to wash off this stench, by recognising that we are attached to something that doesn’t actually exist. We have forgotten our true nature and created a smelly identity, of which we are proud, because it is our creation.
Wisdom is not being attached to any opposites – beauty or shit, good or evil – as these are merely conceptual labels. In the precise present moment, there are no labels. These comes with the “I” in the next moment, when we forget the present moment!
The more we recognise the shit,
the deeper we go.
The more the manure matures,
the sweeter it becomes.
It’s a healing process.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
Out of a ball of shit comes God’s creation of life…just ask the DungBeatle to explain how it works, ask it about water lilies and lotus’s too. From what appears to be death, comes new birth/life .
How do we allow the manure to mature? How does it become sweet and workable, and able to heal?
Thanks
Daisy
Hello Daisy,
By our ultimate nature accepting our relative nature. That relative nature is our path..our confusion, which merely has to dissolve by not reacting. We know that the relative is not permanent, it is just a collection of karmic imprints in the mind.
If we try and change that, we merely add to our karma. So we need only to recognise our holding on to our ‘bitter-sweetness’.
Once we recognise that we automatically do not react, peace arises. That is the proof we need to gain confidence and joy. That acceptance is a relief…and it’s pretty sweet!
No more struggling.
Tony