MAITREYA THE FUTURE BUDDHA
Gain and loss, happiness and unhappiness,
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Advice on Abandoning the Eight Worldly Concerns
OCTOBER 19 2013
OCTOBER 19 2013
by Nyala Pema
Dündul
A ho! Listen
well, all you fortunate, supreme disciples of
excellent karma!
excellent karma!
Gain and loss, happiness and unhappiness,
Fame and insignificance, praise and blame—
These are what we call “the eight worldly concerns.”
These are what we call “the eight worldly concerns.”
Those who cling
to the duality of good and bad, and
pleasure and frustration,
Can not even be called practitioners of non-dual self-liberation!
They are bound by the chains of attachment to the
eight worldly concerns.
pleasure and frustration,
Can not even be called practitioners of non-dual self-liberation!
They are bound by the chains of attachment to the
eight worldly concerns.
Whatever
happens, whether it appears good or bad,
pleasurable or painful,
Recognize it to be just like the ten similes of illusion!
And, in a state of perfection, transcending the ordinary mind,
and beyond words, thought and description,
Rest in the expanse of the view, beyond the limitations of
hope and fear!
pleasurable or painful,
Recognize it to be just like the ten similes of illusion!
And, in a state of perfection, transcending the ordinary mind,
and beyond words, thought and description,
Rest in the expanse of the view, beyond the limitations of
hope and fear!
This advice on
abandoning the eight worldly concerns,
Was put together by the old beggar called Padma,
For a group of students who had requested it repeatedly.
Was put together by the old beggar called Padma,
For a group of students who had requested it repeatedly.
Through this,
may my followers, yogis intent upon enlightenment,
Be free from even so much as a single thought
That is deceived by the mara of the eight worldly concerns!
Translated by Gyurme Avertin and Adam Pearcey,
Rigpa Translations, 2013Be free from even so much as a single thought
That is deceived by the mara of the eight worldly concerns!
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I, Kyungpo Naljor,
Feel deep and intense fear
Toward life’s unbearable sufferings
Such an endless wheel of life
Entails immeasurable suffering in life and death
And inconceivable anguish in the miserable realms
I’m not afraid of death
I’m afraid of rebirth !
Khyungpo Naljor (990-1139) Tibet
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His Guru Preceptor: Indian Female Buddha NIGUMA
"When the ocean of
samsara is turned over, when all attachment and ego-clinging are totally
uprooted, then every place and every thing is covered with gold, forming a
golden field of non-attachment. The actual nature of samsara, this phenomenal
world, is like a play of dreams and illusion. When you have realized
experientially that the play of the phenomenal world is nothing but a dream, or
is like the illusion created by some magician, then you have gone beyond the
ocean of samsara."
