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

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Dan Lusthaus schreef:
> Instead of jeering Freud, it might help your practice to read up on what
> returning to the womb, infantality, oceanic feeling, nirvana-drive, etc.
> entails. Opium does the same thing.
>
> Lama Gendun may or may not have been an exceptional being -- but encouraging
> reverence for being comatose is not spiritual practice, no matter how purple
> or yellow the robes that encourage it. Nor is it Buddhism. Everything is NOT
> alright (all is duhkha), and there is plenty to be done, with effort and
> zeal, until one has done what needs to be done (and if you are a serious
> bodhisattva, only after that does the real hard work begin) -- fooling
> yourself into thinking you've already reached the finish line when you're
> dreaming about being nowhere is an arrogant hare's dream; sleeping on the
> side of the road while the tortoise goes by.
>
> (wake-up call from)
> the tortoise
>
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Do you want to talk about this, Dan? :-) Apparantly something is 
bothering you very much, here.
I used to know lama Gendun and he remember him as a very lovely, brave 
and compassionate person. I doubt if he is really the author, of this 
song however, it doens't sound like him. Maybe there are more lama 
Genduns around. The poem is however pretty much mainstream mahamudra, 
dzogchen or sahajiya poetry and it serves as an inspiration for 
practise. Reminds me of 'The wings of the white crane'. If anybody 
thinks that the poem is about being comatose, well if you drink enough 
bourbon or tequila, it should do the trick, but I garantee it won't 
bring you in the state that is described in this poem. To do that you 
have to be a very experienced meditator, just try it!

-- 


Erik

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