[Buddha-l] "Free and Easy" Vajra song

[jkirk]

Well--under such circumsranes, what good would a desciption of one's
condition do for one or for anybody else? 

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I find advice like this poem offensive and dangerous.

Imagine you are in a comatose, vegetative state, hooked up to all sort of
tubes, feeding machines, machines that pump your blood for you, where the
difference between what you imagine and what is actually going on the room
(much less elsewhere) is hard to discern. Now, would you like a description
of your condition? Well, nothing to do. just lie there -- Here it is:

> > FREE AND EASY
> >
> > A Vajra Song
> >
> > by
> >
> > Ven. Lama Gendun Rinpoche
> >
> > Happiness cannot be found
> > through great effort and willpower
> > but is already present, in relaxation
> >          and letting go.
> >
> > Don't strain yourself;
> > there is nothing to do.
> > Whatever arises in the mind
> > has no real importance at all,
> > because it has no reality whatsoever.
> > Don't become attached to it;
> > don't identify with it
> >          and pass judgment upon it.
> >
> > Let the entire game happen on its own, springing up and falling back 
> > like waves -- without changing or manipulating anything -- and 
> > everything vanishes and reappears, magically,
> >          without end.
> >
> > Only our searching for happiness
> > prevents us from seeing it.
> > It's like a rainbow which you pursue
> >          without ever catching.
> >
> > Although it does not exist,
> > It has always been there
> >          and accompanies you every instant.
> >
> > Don't believe in the reality
> > of good and bad experiences.
> > They are like rainbows in the sky.
> >
> > Wanting to grasp the ungraspable
> > you exhaust yourself in vain.
> > As soon as you open and relax this grasping, space is there -- open, 
> > inviting, and comfortable.
> >
> > Don't search any further.
> > Don't go into the tangled jungle
> > looking for the great elephant
> > who's already quietly at home.
> >
> > Nothing to do,
> > Nothing to force.
> > Nothing to want --
> >          and everything happens by itself.

disgustedly,
Dan

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