The Reality of Vajrayana Buddhist Behavior
The other day I was quoted, taking phrases out of context, by demagnetized intellectuals from the Ivanov-Petrov community. If you're reading, gentlemen, then don't be so petty. Either the truth, or mean big)).
Buddhists absolutely do not need your ideas about Buddhists)). Neither right nor wrong.
I want to give some thoughts to bring out of blissful ignorance. Once, after a long separation, the Teacher met one person with the words: "I heard that your actions do not always agree with your views." The student openly admitted that this was indeed the case. "Don't think too much about it," Master said. “It is important that there is understanding. Let action come naturally from understanding.”
It is useless and even harmful to hit yourself on the head for everything you think you did "wrong" and pat yourself on the back for everything you think you did "right". These are two sides of the same neurosis, which has nothing to do with practice. People of this kind are always in a false relationship with themselves and, accordingly, with others. They cling to the last image of reality "how everything should happen" and try to impose it, if possible, on everyone they meet. And suddenly bam - in the face! Everything, you lose the title of Buddhist and should subject you to public censure. Or criminal punishment. In general, what will happen.
I want to warn you right away - I don’t fucking need the title of Buddhist, but I will try to follow my understanding. Things exist and work differently than we imagine. You can, being in a war, shoot people and think that this is happening according to the law. You can terrorize elderly veterans in the press, exercising your right to free speech. You have the right, but you don't have the right.
There is a difference between intellectual and experiential understanding. If your understanding is only intellectual, it becomes a hindrance. If you stick to the rules for the sake of keeping the rules, or out of fear of the consequences, or fear of making a mistake, then you are living a completely made-up life.
Once Vasily Petrovich Repka (there was such a Russian realized yogi) was riding in a bus, where the majority were Buryats. And as you know, they all consider themselves born Buddhists)). So one of them, being drunk, strongly "acted", the rest silently endured. Petrovich pulled the peasant with force, to which one "elder" suddenly remarked: "What are you Russians doing? Didn't your Christ tell you that you should endure and turn the other cheek?!" And Petrovich said to him: "That's the way it is with Christians, but with us Buddhists, if you hit me on one cheek, I'll break your whole jaw." They can say: "Ai-yay-yay! How bad he is!" However, he was indeed a recognized realized teacher. And if you don’t understand why and why he answered that way, then you are just a fool and there is nothing to climb into something that is not of your mind. If every fool begins to exercise his "freedom of speech", the universal mess will come.
Petrovich once worked as a stoker in a village school. Sitting, then on the shift, throws up a piece of coal. And then one malicious peasant comes in and begins to wind up his nerves, what are you supposedly doing, and why are you rubbing yourself in the stokers. And the times were deaf, Soviet, Russian Buddhists were "under supervision." Petrovich said to him: "If you rub and sniff around here, I'll take you and push you into the oven." And points to the open door of the blazing furnace. The word of truth, it can be of such power that it frightens a fool beyond measure. This man believed that Petrovich would burn him in the oven. And so I remembered for the rest of my life)).
One day a student asked his Master: "What is the meaning of all this activity?" I meant Buddhist. And the Teacher, without raising his eyes, to him: "There is no point."
"Well, if there is no point, then what should I cultivate?"
Teacher (without raising his head): "Spontaneous correct action."
"And it's all? "
"That's all ".
"Is it the end?"
"That's if you want to label it, say something about it."
"So I'm cultivating in spontaneous right action?"
Teacher (sharply): "You are so smart, you could have realized long ago that you already know the answer, and not pester me with questions."
"Master! If I already knew the answer, I wouldn't have asked the question!"
"Boy! Every question delivers its own answer when it comes into being!"
I may be wrong, but I don't believe that bodhisattvas should think what they should or shouldn't do based on hopes and fears. Being compassionate in a given situation seems effortless. Because kids don't come up to you and say, "Hi, I'm an innocent little kid." They just are the way they are. Likewise, the eight great cemeteries are simply that and are not necessarily limited to one particular geographic area. This is what a Vajrayana practitioner told me.
You can spend your whole life learning what you already know.
Coming to manifest some signs of true realization for the benefit of all sentient beings within one lifetime, in this body, is not for the faint of heart. And access to Vajrayana training is too easy these days. But most white people are ill-adjusted to the Vajrayana. Maybe you should chant the sutras and avoid trouble?
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