Sixth & Love
Oct 22, 2010 | Views: 423
“If one’s thoughts towards spirituality
were of the same intensity as those towards love,
one would become a Buddha
in this very body, in this very life.”
-From the Love Poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama
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Meaningful poems by the 6th Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso . Tsangyang Gyatso was the 6th Dalai Lama. He was an unconventional Dalai Lama that preferred the lifestyle of a crazy wisdom yogi to that of an ordained monk. The 6th Dalai Lama is also well known for his poems and songs that continue till to these days. Its still popular among Tibetan communities in Nepal, India and all across China. If committed and focused, on a simple practice and learning Dharma with that of love and compassion all the way nor matter what happen along the way. Let our thoughts and actions always be spiritual.
Thank you Rinpoche for this sharing.
This is so true and nice quote. It is also meaningful too.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post.
This simple yet profound quote by the 6th Dalai Lama reminds me of a recent teaching Rinpoche gave just a week ago about how we should move the “sofa” so we can get our focus right on what is priority at the moment. Yes, let’s admit it, we’re all very attached. Whatever it may be, whether it is a relationship, money, career, fun, sleep, being right, we all have our attachments. If we could only pursue the Dharma with that same kind of drive, energy focus and effort on our attachments, why can we not just turn the focus around a have the same energy, drive and passion for Dharma? It is all a matter of a change in our perspective.
The sofa represents our attachments and it is always in the way…day in day out we see it in the middle of the living room, so why not move it out of the way, in to some corner of the room which is not in your face and replace that empty area, once used to be the sofa with Manjushri, Tsongkhapa, Tara etc. We did not get rid of the sofa but once our strength is firmer and we’re stronger we can deal with the “sofa” and probably have enough strength to throw it out once and for all!
Is so true! Like Rinpoche always says ‘You’re in dharma but is dharma in you?’
Things are easier said than done. If we don’t put in the extra extra extra effort, we will loose in the end as time and tide waits for no one!
so true!
At the initial stages, everyone has different levels of development of love – stronger for those closer to oneself and weaker for those who are not so closed. However, as one’s practice gradually developes one’s love can become equal in strength towards each and every being. Of course it is definitely not easy for such “equal-pervasive” love to be developed right away. It must come gradually and be cultivated with much time and patience properly. As in most experiences in the early stages of practice love, compassion and faith are usually mixed with a little of the afflictive immotions. It is neccesary first to remove all these afflictive predepositions in our own inner self. As practicioners, our real target or battle should be within ourselves. Through the practice of minimising or eradicating such counter productive qualities, we will at least be able to attain a more mental peace of mind and calmness at least, if not reaching buddhahood within this very life.
True love without conditions or motives are pure love and hard to find. Only Buddhas can do that. We are in Samsara. It is hard to find anyone to do things for you without a condition. Like when you work for an office you expect to be paid so as to sustain yourself and that is a condition. Even doing dharma work most people do because of the merits they can collect in their lives. I may be going put of point in trying to analyse and understand what the 6th Dalal Lama wrote in his poem. Sometimes I can see the point but its hard to express and comment in my limited English vocabulary. All I can say what the 6th Dalal Lama wrote in his poem is very deep and profound.
Such beautiful words. Whilst i may not know its true meaning, i gather from those stanzas that we are to fall completely in love with the Dharma instead of being in the grasp of our love for life itself.
Falling “in love” when we were young kids was a lot easier and intense and purer than as we grow up. As we mature, loving comes with so many “conditions” and being in-love takes so much of overcoming the past. There is so much fear and factors to consider.
The poem helps me to recall that sensation of the first true love i ever experienced and how totally and intensely that love engulfed my life. How each moment is a longing to be with that love.
How much easier it would be if we think of Dharma as our first true love. How exhilirating and liberating. And sufficient.