It Looks Bleak and Dark When We Are Outraged!
Life Shapes Are Changing Constantly.
Constant change upsets us.
Why is that?
Because we want what we want when we want it to shape-up and give us what we want.
Our desires cause us to suffer when we do not get, have and keep what we want!
Our Disappointment Comes from NOT Getting What We Want.
When this disappointment erupts in the mind we believe we have been cheated out of something we wanted.
This phenomena is part of human nature. It happens over and over again.
We Must Be Willing to Release Our Desires.
It requires effort.
And the effort may surpise us when we first read it.
When we want something, anything, we are stuck in the ego. This message is a strong message. Most of us, the majority of us want something - that something can be anything. When we want something notice we want something for ourselves even when we wish something for someone else.
When we want nothing, know nothing and have nothing, we benefit spiritually. This is a tough teaching. It starts with not wanting.
The second desire that interferes is believing and think we know. This desire maybe one of the most difficult to relinquish. What makes this desire so difficult is that we see and believe God, the Divinity, Buddha to be a separate entity as in “I am me, here & the Divine, God, Buddha is separate out there.” This division leads to wanting something from God. We are encouraged to stop claiming knowledge of God and knowledge of God within ourselves. It requires that we recognize everything as God, not separate of anything. It requires a relinquishment of thinking we know.
The third desire is to have nothing. We make no claim or ownership on anything. For 21st century mankind, this is unimaginable. We can realize the emptiness of God, Divinity, Buddha by understanding where God is NOT. In other words, we do not claim God, but we enter a space of our previous eternal existence. We are not God, we are of God from a beginningless essence. We make no self claims of God. In essence we fool ourselves thinking we become something in the world of objects and self, when in actuality our true nature is everpresent, unborn, undying, immutable & uncreated.
This is our eternal existence. God and I are ONE and the ONE is eternal existance.
Buddhism, Christianity, Meister Eckhart
If this is too difficult, perhaps a short story may help.
A Buddhist Zen Master Outraged with the Cat!
Each one of us is subject to outrage: terrible, horrible, mean reaction to something or someone that disturbs our mind. If there are exceptions, they are few in number.
The headline points to a Buddhist, but not only any Buddhist, a Buddhist Master which suggests longstanding training and possibly wide range of teachings.
YEP! This Buddhist Zen Master is terrible, horrible, mean to his cat.
The outburst happens again and again in the early hours of every morning. The cat meows, scratches, paces, rubs along his master’s bed and even resorts to loud demanding cries.
It is a relentless effort from the cat to awaken the master so that the cat can eat. The cat is hungry, insistent and relentless in his need for food.
Anger, irritation and outrage builds up in the Master until the Master in his rage gets up in the early hours of the morning and feeds the cat. The cat is fed but then shifts to cleaning his paws and wanting comfort from the Master. Endless licking and grooming is next. The Master remains outraged with the cat.
The ANTIDOTE for RAGE
Cure: empty and desire less, cold and thin, simple and genuine. This is how to strike down and fold up the remaining habits of many lives. The habits that bind us to the world and self-centered interest.
When the stains from old habits are exhausted, the original light appears, blazing through your skull not admitting any other matters.
This requires practice.
Do Not Give in To Rage, Outrage or Irritation.
