Letter of Un-Awareness

There is a letter that some people, more and more are sharing and Lion’s Roar has published. I was not about to share and commented on some one’s share only. Now still more people are sharing it.

I will organize my comments and post them in this message. If you disagree with this, my  social media comments to a point where it causes negativity to raise. Please feel free to unfollow, unfrend or most effective, to block.

An image of Guru Rinpoche called “Looks like me”

1st comment about what it is, or what I, in my narrow view see it as:

An effort by western Buddhists to enforce christian values onto their own teachers of, Buddhism. On the same page mass teachings of Vajrayana in the West are like that: no one gets it. And then again if you establish a throne here (not in old Tibet) they will challenge you. The whole game of thrones and how tantalizing it it to so many people. Wish I had patience to get through ONE season, but all these machinations feel so useless. Moral of the story: you live like a king, expect to be challenged for the throne by self righteous ignorant masses armed with pitchforks.

Then some one who is much older and is a respected person came in and said: Is such and such part of the self righteous ignorannt masses?

My 2nd comment:
My personal and doubtlessly very ignorant comment is non person specific. It is very much geared towards this “in the open” face palm discussion. It also has to be considered as a whole post. I personally while believing that certain types of conduct are not to be openly displayed will never agree that they do not exist and are only good when sanctioned. This whole discussion about what is good and what is not according to others seems very pointless.

To finalize more:
In a nutshell so many people seem to get so deeply emotional about practice or conduct of others and not them selves. If they were so deeply emotional about giving rise to the mind of awakening taking these “others” as the path rather then this is good, this is bad, this is good and so on, who knows?

Then same person comes in and just puts the name in:
in a way: “But him?”

To that I answer:
“But him?” -substituting the name for the name of the Lama in person.
Because it is all, always to a point is subjective and depends on one’s point of view?

More comments from myself:
Five poisons / five wisdoms do manifest in this dream like reality. To deny this while attempting to study these is a special type of escapism.

And:
On a prosaic note. In Tibet’s history there was quite a bit of finger pointing and power struggle. If we read about it today in histories, it is all part of this life in samsara, as well. The most interesting thing here is idea of going beyond, of liberation. But often times it is easier to think in ethernalist-goodness framework of this life only somehow. Or even more simply fix samsara with samsara. Pretty foundational type of delusion that is very different from merit accumulation.

So, yet another bottom line is warranted:
Not a single nail in the foundation of any building in the center in France or anywhere in the world where they are at, for which these students now days are so confidently speaking for, nothing would be purchased or built without the blessing and accomplishment of the Lama. No one would even get an idea to do any of this.
All these students, ex students, senior students and the volunteers had a privilege to connect to the Buddhist teachings through participating in these centers on many levels. Now instead of discovering their inner Guru they made their mind up to push aside their outer Guru. And there is never any merit in that. Instead of feeling self righteous, they could have just left and concentrate into positivity, if they could, because this is the good thing to do. Not criticizing some one. But we all get to pick our interests and this just yet again proves that there are very few people interested in liberation from samsara.
May my comment provide some one who has merit to practice to see a possibility to do so. -Please know you are not alone in your attempts, despite the odds, especially if you are connected to this wonderful organization of awareness, that just seemingly has fallen into disharmony. The teachings are still there. May Lama live long and have his wishes fulfilled, exceedingly.