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Why, despite so many mind studies and spiritual practices,
Are we still there?
Those who have started studying the mind or have been studying it for a long time,
Anyone who believes or doubts that they have completed their study of the mind,
These are books that everyone must read at least once!
This is an era where studying the mind has become a commodity.
Even in the world of spirituality, there are bound to be cults, so fake spirituality experts and training centers are everywhere.
But the bigger problem is that the ego cleverly uses our thoughts, emotions, and senses to obstruct the path to true mind study.
Whether it's being satisfied with striving for enlightenment, thinking one has reached a higher level, or using mental practice as a means to help one live a stable life, the ego is so cunning that it deceives itself and leads one down the wrong path of mental practice.
This book uncovers the fundamental nature of mind study and the process of its practice by uncovering the traps created by the ego one by one.
It consists of 16 chapters, and each chapter contains 'Questions and Answers' to answer doubts and questions that those who study the mind may have had at least once.
Are we still there?
Those who have started studying the mind or have been studying it for a long time,
Anyone who believes or doubts that they have completed their study of the mind,
These are books that everyone must read at least once!
This is an era where studying the mind has become a commodity.
Even in the world of spirituality, there are bound to be cults, so fake spirituality experts and training centers are everywhere.
But the bigger problem is that the ego cleverly uses our thoughts, emotions, and senses to obstruct the path to true mind study.
Whether it's being satisfied with striving for enlightenment, thinking one has reached a higher level, or using mental practice as a means to help one live a stable life, the ego is so cunning that it deceives itself and leads one down the wrong path of mental practice.
This book uncovers the fundamental nature of mind study and the process of its practice by uncovering the traps created by the ego one by one.
It consists of 16 chapters, and each chapter contains 'Questions and Answers' to answer doubts and questions that those who study the mind may have had at least once.
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Entering
Spiritual materialism, a false enlightenment created by the ego
Become an empty vessel that can hold everything.
My Guru is 'Circumstances'
Traps to avoid when starting to study the mind
The ego is the attempt to not miss the experience of enlightenment.
The folly of practice filled with the expectation of gaining something
Studying a mind that is not fully open leads to a cycle of desire.
When you know that there is nothing special in the first place, you can see all the fakes in the world.
Five stages of ego creation
To escape the prison, you must embrace the wall.
Four Sacred Truths that Transcend the Ego
A state that happens naturally without effort, Paramita
A spell that makes you fear nothing in the world
Behold the Third Mercy, Merciless Mercy
Transform the ego and finally become one with Nirvana.
About Chogyal Trungpa
Translator's Note
Entering
Spiritual materialism, a false enlightenment created by the ego
Become an empty vessel that can hold everything.
My Guru is 'Circumstances'
Traps to avoid when starting to study the mind
The ego is the attempt to not miss the experience of enlightenment.
The folly of practice filled with the expectation of gaining something
Studying a mind that is not fully open leads to a cycle of desire.
When you know that there is nothing special in the first place, you can see all the fakes in the world.
Five stages of ego creation
To escape the prison, you must embrace the wall.
Four Sacred Truths that Transcend the Ego
A state that happens naturally without effort, Paramita
A spell that makes you fear nothing in the world
Behold the Third Mercy, Merciless Mercy
Transform the ego and finally become one with Nirvana.
About Chogyal Trungpa
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Properly cultivating the mind is a very subtle process.
It's not something you just jump into innocently.
There are countless side paths that lead us down distorted and twisted paths of self-centered study.
We can fool ourselves into thinking we have reached a high level by using some training methods, while ultimately cultivating self-centeredness.
---p.12
We treat spiritual teachings as something outside of ourselves, as some philosophy we must learn.
So, we don't really want to become one with the teaching and become the teaching itself.
When the teacher tells us to let go of our ego, we pretend to let go of our ego.
We act cool and make appropriate gestures, but we are not willing to sacrifice our lifestyle in the slightest.
---p.27
The gestures of surrender and openness signify connection and direct communication with the object of surrender.
We are not embarrassed or ashamed of our rough, tumble, beautiful, and pure nature.
We give everything to the subject who submits.
The act of submission does not involve worship of an external force.
Rather, it means working under inspiration, becoming an empty vessel into which knowledge can be poured.
---p.46
I think the word guru is overused here in the West.
Rather, it would be better to just call them 'spiritual friends'.
Because true teaching comes from the equal meeting of two minds.
It is a matter of equal intercourse rather than a master-servant relationship between highly advanced beings and lowly, inferior beings.
---p.57
We can define spirituality as something very stimulating and colorful.
I see it as exploring ourselves in exotic and different religious traditions.
Or perhaps you think spirituality is about changing the tone of your voice, your eating habits, or other common behaviors.
So, we try to make that behavior a habit.
But somehow they cannot become our nature.
---p.76
If we had continued to experience it, it would have seemed like a routine occurrence.
We can't accept that normalcy.
“Oh, if only I could have that amazing experience again!” you say, meaning you are busy remembering it instead of experiencing it now.
This is the game of self-deception.
---p.88
The way to truly put this message into practice is to cast aside all notions of peace and war and open yourself equally and completely to both the positive and negative aspects of the world.
It's like looking down on the world from the air.
There is light and there is darkness, and we embrace both.
At that time, you no longer try to oppose the darkness and defend the light.
---p.127
Since true meditation practice is a way out of the ego, the first tip is not to focus too much on a future enlightened state of mind.
A complete meditation practice must be based essentially on the here and now, on the means of coping with that situation, and on the present state of mind.
Any meditation practice that focuses on transcending the ego focuses on the present moment.
So that's what makes it a very effective lifestyle.
---p.190
If you see things as they are, there is no need to interpret or analyze them.
There is no need to try to understand them by superimposing some spiritual experience or philosophical idea on them.
As a famous Zen master once said, “When it’s time to eat, eat, and when it’s time to sleep, sleep.” Do what you’re doing now perfectly and fully.
To act in this way is to become an honest and upright person, an upright person who does not discriminate between this and that, a 'Rishi'.
---p.228
Compassion contains within itself a fundamental 'fearlessness'.
No hesitation, no fear.
This fearlessness is in contrast to the fearlessness that comes from extending one's power to others, in that it takes the form of endless tolerance.
This 'generous fearlessness' is the essence of compassion, transcending the animalistic nature of the ego.
---p.250
We need to break free from our routine, repetitive, and comfortable lifestyle.
The main purpose of our meditation practice is not to become honest or good people to maintain our own safety, as is seen from a conventional point of view.
We must become compassionate and wise people at a fundamental level, opening ourselves wide to the world as it is and living in it as it is.
---p.253
When you look at the stone in your palm with the clear, penetrating eyes of perception that remove the mask, you will not only feel the stone's hardness, but also grasp the meaning it holds within.
What I mean is that in it we see the solidity and majesty of the earth expressed.
When we can actually perceive it that way, we can grasp Mount Everest with our hands.
Because every little pebble placed in the palm of your hand reveals the solidity of a mountain.
It's not something you just jump into innocently.
There are countless side paths that lead us down distorted and twisted paths of self-centered study.
We can fool ourselves into thinking we have reached a high level by using some training methods, while ultimately cultivating self-centeredness.
---p.12
We treat spiritual teachings as something outside of ourselves, as some philosophy we must learn.
So, we don't really want to become one with the teaching and become the teaching itself.
When the teacher tells us to let go of our ego, we pretend to let go of our ego.
We act cool and make appropriate gestures, but we are not willing to sacrifice our lifestyle in the slightest.
---p.27
The gestures of surrender and openness signify connection and direct communication with the object of surrender.
We are not embarrassed or ashamed of our rough, tumble, beautiful, and pure nature.
We give everything to the subject who submits.
The act of submission does not involve worship of an external force.
Rather, it means working under inspiration, becoming an empty vessel into which knowledge can be poured.
---p.46
I think the word guru is overused here in the West.
Rather, it would be better to just call them 'spiritual friends'.
Because true teaching comes from the equal meeting of two minds.
It is a matter of equal intercourse rather than a master-servant relationship between highly advanced beings and lowly, inferior beings.
---p.57
We can define spirituality as something very stimulating and colorful.
I see it as exploring ourselves in exotic and different religious traditions.
Or perhaps you think spirituality is about changing the tone of your voice, your eating habits, or other common behaviors.
So, we try to make that behavior a habit.
But somehow they cannot become our nature.
---p.76
If we had continued to experience it, it would have seemed like a routine occurrence.
We can't accept that normalcy.
“Oh, if only I could have that amazing experience again!” you say, meaning you are busy remembering it instead of experiencing it now.
This is the game of self-deception.
---p.88
The way to truly put this message into practice is to cast aside all notions of peace and war and open yourself equally and completely to both the positive and negative aspects of the world.
It's like looking down on the world from the air.
There is light and there is darkness, and we embrace both.
At that time, you no longer try to oppose the darkness and defend the light.
---p.127
Since true meditation practice is a way out of the ego, the first tip is not to focus too much on a future enlightened state of mind.
A complete meditation practice must be based essentially on the here and now, on the means of coping with that situation, and on the present state of mind.
Any meditation practice that focuses on transcending the ego focuses on the present moment.
So that's what makes it a very effective lifestyle.
---p.190
If you see things as they are, there is no need to interpret or analyze them.
There is no need to try to understand them by superimposing some spiritual experience or philosophical idea on them.
As a famous Zen master once said, “When it’s time to eat, eat, and when it’s time to sleep, sleep.” Do what you’re doing now perfectly and fully.
To act in this way is to become an honest and upright person, an upright person who does not discriminate between this and that, a 'Rishi'.
---p.228
Compassion contains within itself a fundamental 'fearlessness'.
No hesitation, no fear.
This fearlessness is in contrast to the fearlessness that comes from extending one's power to others, in that it takes the form of endless tolerance.
This 'generous fearlessness' is the essence of compassion, transcending the animalistic nature of the ego.
---p.250
We need to break free from our routine, repetitive, and comfortable lifestyle.
The main purpose of our meditation practice is not to become honest or good people to maintain our own safety, as is seen from a conventional point of view.
We must become compassionate and wise people at a fundamental level, opening ourselves wide to the world as it is and living in it as it is.
---p.253
When you look at the stone in your palm with the clear, penetrating eyes of perception that remove the mask, you will not only feel the stone's hardness, but also grasp the meaning it holds within.
What I mean is that in it we see the solidity and majesty of the earth expressed.
When we can actually perceive it that way, we can grasp Mount Everest with our hands.
Because every little pebble placed in the palm of your hand reveals the solidity of a mountain.
---p.266
Publisher's Review
From the United States in 1970 to South Korea in 2021
A classic study of the mind passed down for over half a century
In 1970, a strange monk from the East arrived in the United States, a land that was enjoying unprecedented material abundance thanks to the dazzling economic growth of the previous 100 years.
Chogyam Trungpa from Tibet.
At that time, American society was in a very spiritually elevated state.
As we transitioned from a high-growth to a low-growth society, social and economic anxiety about the future began to grow, and more and more people were abandoning their old materialistic values and seeking new spiritual principles.
They sought a deeper meaning and perspective on life in the spiritual world of the East.
During this time, Chogyal Trungpa, who settled in the United States, preached to people what true spirituality was based on Buddhist teachings.
He sharply criticized the spiritual materialism of Americans, who seek to commercialize and consume even enlightenment, and emphasized that one can achieve spirituality directly through meditation.
This book is a collection of lectures given by Chögyam Trungpa at the Karma Dzong meditation center in Colorado, USA, from the fall of 1970 to the spring of the following year, and is a living classic for those seeking the right path in mind study and spirituality.
This is a sharp teaching in an age where materialism has become more severe over the past half century and spirituality has become a useful means of making money.
The greatest enemy that hinders the realization of spirituality is
The myth of 'I' created by the ego
"Why, despite countless mind studies and spiritual practices, are we still stuck in this place?" As the subtitle of this book suggests, before asking what spirituality is, we must first ask why it is so difficult to achieve.
Why? Trungpa says it's because the ego cleverly blocks the path to it.
Practice is the practice of revealing the awakened state of the mind.
The Buddhist view is that the state of being awake is 'enlightenment' and 'spirituality', and that it originally exists within us.
It's just that we can't see it because of the illusion created by the ego.
The ego's techniques that block our view of our inner spirituality are thoughts, emotions, and concepts.
Through these three things, the ego creates the myth of an independent and fixed 'I'.
It constantly whispers to us that there is a thinking me, a feeling me, and a perceiving me.
In this way, the ego separates me from what is not me, and by selecting and choosing between the good and bad among what is not me, it makes us look at life with a dichotomous attitude.
The idea of enlightenment, spirituality, and the world that are separate from me are also created in this way.
Furthermore, the ego uses even our mental studies to see the truth as tools to lead us into false spirituality.
There is enlightenment there and you have caught it, you have a special enlightenment and you are special!
How can we overcome the illusions created by the ego and reach the truth? In this book, Chögyal Trungpa provides the answer through rich anecdotes and sharp metaphors.
The illusion of specialness,
A trap that people studying the mind can easily fall into
One of the traps we easily fall into while studying the mind is the pursuit of 'specialness'.
Through the study of the mind, we aim to reach an amazing realm that is different from others and cannot be experienced in everyday life.
It starts with considering enlightenment as something special.
People don't want to believe that enlightenment or spirituality is something they already have in their nature.
It is impossible to accept ordinary enlightenment.
So, he sets out to find an enlightenment that has superhuman powers that will turn his life and the world upside down in an instant.
When a special realization arises, special actions and attempts to attain it follow.
It involves living a life detached from reality by secluding oneself in the deep mountains, practicing strict asceticism, or clinging to a specific religious dogma.
In doing so, he rationalizes his actions by saying that he is striving for special enlightenment, to reach a higher state of consciousness.
Another pitfall that can lead a student of the mind astray is the obsession with not letting go of enlightenment once it has come.
Those who have experienced enlightenment during meditation practice consider it a special experience and try to retain the feeling of that moment.
“Oh, amazing! I finally did it,” they say, appreciating their experience as something valuable and trying to cherish it forever.
But the moment you try to grasp it, the realization becomes a memory of the past rather than a vivid experience that lives in the present.
And from this point on, the game of self-deception begins.
We no longer experience it in our daily lives, but we just recall it as a good time, a memory, and talk about it over and over again.
True enlightenment is everyday.
Because being fully awake to the events of everyday life is true enlightenment.
This is why the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism and Zen Buddhism emphasize ‘ordinary wisdom’ and ‘true ordinariness.’
Mind study and mind training are the processes of experiencing what is happening now as it is.
It is about fully accepting the situation unfolding before your eyes and giving up hope for something better.
When we turn away from reality and focus our minds on things that are not rooted in the here and now, we distance ourselves from the inspiration that life offers.
Therefore, the study of the mind must always be done here, where you are standing now.
Right here, right now, at this very moment, is the best place and the shortest distance for us to encounter enlightenment.
I have to get something
The door opens only when you empty your ego of expectations.
In the process of studying the mind, the presence of a teacher is like a lamp that illuminates a dark path.
This is because it helps us develop the ability to find the right path among countless obstacles, and it gives us the courage and strength to overcome the difficulties we face during the training process.
We call such a teacher a Guru.
However, the relationship between teacher and student is not as easy as it sounds.
People expect to meet a great teacher and get answers to all their problems from him.
I regard my teacher as a being higher than me, so I believe his words even if he says that he can make soybean paste with red beans, and I try to become like him.
But just following the teacher is not enough.
We should not try to become copies of our master.
The relationship between a true teacher and his disciple is horizontal.
They are spiritual friends who walk the spiritual path together.
When a teacher and a student openly face each other without hiding anything, communication and the transmission of teachings can take place between them.
Therefore, it is not advisable to take someone as a guru just because he is famous or has many disciples.
Rather, you should first consider whether you can talk openly with that person about everything.
When we let go of all our vain expectations and hopes for our teacher and welcome him as someone with whom we can speak openly, the rich wisdom he possesses connects with our nature and begins to play a creative role.
Also, you should not blindly accept the teachings of a teacher.
You must put the teachings into practice and verify them yourself.
You must make the teacher's inspiration your own and experience it in your own life.
At that time, the teaching becomes alive.
Just as enlightenment and inspiration are, teachings are not something foreign and outside of us.
It is not something secret that is inherited from the master.
It simply means connecting directly with each other's nature in an open attitude.
A true teacher is one who communicates with the world with open eyes, so forming a relationship with such a teacher is like communicating with the world.
From one independent being, the entire universe expands into our Guru.
Openness and openness are about emptying the ego of its expectations of gaining something, becoming an empty vessel, and allowing the stories of life to be colorfully drawn in that empty space.
It is an attempt to embrace the whole picture of oneself and the world and see the truth in it all.
The beginning of enlightenment,
Cut off everything I want to protect!
The original title of this book is 'Cutting Through The Spiritual Materialism'.
The meaning of 'Cutting' is to cut off and sever everything I wanted to keep.
From such complete openness and perfect surrender, the path to enlightenment and spirituality begins.
You can only go forward by giving up all the desires expressed by the ego, all the dreams and hopes of attaining something transcendent through the study of the mind.
A life like that, unbound by anything, lets the world flow through me.
Then, we can build a fluid relationship with the world without unnecessary value assessments and judgments.
You can learn the true meaning of compassion and love and incorporate it into your life.
True compassion and love is about standing on one side and stopping the struggle to fight against the other.
A compassionate person does not try to be good, does not become unnecessarily solemn, and lives in the present moment.
I see all the games of behavior that take place around me in the name of spirituality as nothing more than trivial wordplay.
This attitude, which is the exact opposite of the ego's demands, may seem very violent and merciless to the ego, but if the reason we study the mind is to escape the ego's endless cravings, then this is the goal we should be pursuing.
It is for the same reason that it is said that the purpose of meditation practice is to become a wise and compassionate person.
When someone says they have reached a high state through meditation, what they mean is that they are fully aware of the present moment and their surroundings.
It is about living fully in the present moment without missing or ignoring anything.
For those who live in harmony, everyday life becomes an exciting source of inspiration.
Living solely in the present, without any preconceived notions about the past or future, every moment unfolds with infinite possibilities.
In Buddhism, a person who lives this kind of life is called a bodhisattva.
A bodhisattva is someone who courageously walks the path to enlightenment.
They see the strength of the earth in a small pebble and feel the energy of the universe in a single flower.
Because it is seamlessly connected to one's own nature, nature, and all circumstances of life.
They don't bother to plant seeds for tomorrow.
Always live in the present.
Like a Bodhisattva, those who study the mind must become fundamentally compassionate and wise people.
That is the key to entering into true spirituality, and it is all the spirituality and enlightenment we seek.
-Author's Note-
By carefully examining his own thoughts, feelings, concepts, and other mental processes, the Buddha discovered that we do not need to try to prove our existence.
You don't have to work hard to be free.
The absence of effort is freedom in itself.
A state of egolessness, that is the attainment of Buddhahood.
The process of changing the mind that has been expressing the desires of the ego through meditation practice and leading it to express its original bright enlightenment can be said to be the path of true study of the mind.
A classic study of the mind passed down for over half a century
In 1970, a strange monk from the East arrived in the United States, a land that was enjoying unprecedented material abundance thanks to the dazzling economic growth of the previous 100 years.
Chogyam Trungpa from Tibet.
At that time, American society was in a very spiritually elevated state.
As we transitioned from a high-growth to a low-growth society, social and economic anxiety about the future began to grow, and more and more people were abandoning their old materialistic values and seeking new spiritual principles.
They sought a deeper meaning and perspective on life in the spiritual world of the East.
During this time, Chogyal Trungpa, who settled in the United States, preached to people what true spirituality was based on Buddhist teachings.
He sharply criticized the spiritual materialism of Americans, who seek to commercialize and consume even enlightenment, and emphasized that one can achieve spirituality directly through meditation.
This book is a collection of lectures given by Chögyam Trungpa at the Karma Dzong meditation center in Colorado, USA, from the fall of 1970 to the spring of the following year, and is a living classic for those seeking the right path in mind study and spirituality.
This is a sharp teaching in an age where materialism has become more severe over the past half century and spirituality has become a useful means of making money.
The greatest enemy that hinders the realization of spirituality is
The myth of 'I' created by the ego
"Why, despite countless mind studies and spiritual practices, are we still stuck in this place?" As the subtitle of this book suggests, before asking what spirituality is, we must first ask why it is so difficult to achieve.
Why? Trungpa says it's because the ego cleverly blocks the path to it.
Practice is the practice of revealing the awakened state of the mind.
The Buddhist view is that the state of being awake is 'enlightenment' and 'spirituality', and that it originally exists within us.
It's just that we can't see it because of the illusion created by the ego.
The ego's techniques that block our view of our inner spirituality are thoughts, emotions, and concepts.
Through these three things, the ego creates the myth of an independent and fixed 'I'.
It constantly whispers to us that there is a thinking me, a feeling me, and a perceiving me.
In this way, the ego separates me from what is not me, and by selecting and choosing between the good and bad among what is not me, it makes us look at life with a dichotomous attitude.
The idea of enlightenment, spirituality, and the world that are separate from me are also created in this way.
Furthermore, the ego uses even our mental studies to see the truth as tools to lead us into false spirituality.
There is enlightenment there and you have caught it, you have a special enlightenment and you are special!
How can we overcome the illusions created by the ego and reach the truth? In this book, Chögyal Trungpa provides the answer through rich anecdotes and sharp metaphors.
The illusion of specialness,
A trap that people studying the mind can easily fall into
One of the traps we easily fall into while studying the mind is the pursuit of 'specialness'.
Through the study of the mind, we aim to reach an amazing realm that is different from others and cannot be experienced in everyday life.
It starts with considering enlightenment as something special.
People don't want to believe that enlightenment or spirituality is something they already have in their nature.
It is impossible to accept ordinary enlightenment.
So, he sets out to find an enlightenment that has superhuman powers that will turn his life and the world upside down in an instant.
When a special realization arises, special actions and attempts to attain it follow.
It involves living a life detached from reality by secluding oneself in the deep mountains, practicing strict asceticism, or clinging to a specific religious dogma.
In doing so, he rationalizes his actions by saying that he is striving for special enlightenment, to reach a higher state of consciousness.
Another pitfall that can lead a student of the mind astray is the obsession with not letting go of enlightenment once it has come.
Those who have experienced enlightenment during meditation practice consider it a special experience and try to retain the feeling of that moment.
“Oh, amazing! I finally did it,” they say, appreciating their experience as something valuable and trying to cherish it forever.
But the moment you try to grasp it, the realization becomes a memory of the past rather than a vivid experience that lives in the present.
And from this point on, the game of self-deception begins.
We no longer experience it in our daily lives, but we just recall it as a good time, a memory, and talk about it over and over again.
True enlightenment is everyday.
Because being fully awake to the events of everyday life is true enlightenment.
This is why the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism and Zen Buddhism emphasize ‘ordinary wisdom’ and ‘true ordinariness.’
Mind study and mind training are the processes of experiencing what is happening now as it is.
It is about fully accepting the situation unfolding before your eyes and giving up hope for something better.
When we turn away from reality and focus our minds on things that are not rooted in the here and now, we distance ourselves from the inspiration that life offers.
Therefore, the study of the mind must always be done here, where you are standing now.
Right here, right now, at this very moment, is the best place and the shortest distance for us to encounter enlightenment.
I have to get something
The door opens only when you empty your ego of expectations.
In the process of studying the mind, the presence of a teacher is like a lamp that illuminates a dark path.
This is because it helps us develop the ability to find the right path among countless obstacles, and it gives us the courage and strength to overcome the difficulties we face during the training process.
We call such a teacher a Guru.
However, the relationship between teacher and student is not as easy as it sounds.
People expect to meet a great teacher and get answers to all their problems from him.
I regard my teacher as a being higher than me, so I believe his words even if he says that he can make soybean paste with red beans, and I try to become like him.
But just following the teacher is not enough.
We should not try to become copies of our master.
The relationship between a true teacher and his disciple is horizontal.
They are spiritual friends who walk the spiritual path together.
When a teacher and a student openly face each other without hiding anything, communication and the transmission of teachings can take place between them.
Therefore, it is not advisable to take someone as a guru just because he is famous or has many disciples.
Rather, you should first consider whether you can talk openly with that person about everything.
When we let go of all our vain expectations and hopes for our teacher and welcome him as someone with whom we can speak openly, the rich wisdom he possesses connects with our nature and begins to play a creative role.
Also, you should not blindly accept the teachings of a teacher.
You must put the teachings into practice and verify them yourself.
You must make the teacher's inspiration your own and experience it in your own life.
At that time, the teaching becomes alive.
Just as enlightenment and inspiration are, teachings are not something foreign and outside of us.
It is not something secret that is inherited from the master.
It simply means connecting directly with each other's nature in an open attitude.
A true teacher is one who communicates with the world with open eyes, so forming a relationship with such a teacher is like communicating with the world.
From one independent being, the entire universe expands into our Guru.
Openness and openness are about emptying the ego of its expectations of gaining something, becoming an empty vessel, and allowing the stories of life to be colorfully drawn in that empty space.
It is an attempt to embrace the whole picture of oneself and the world and see the truth in it all.
The beginning of enlightenment,
Cut off everything I want to protect!
The original title of this book is 'Cutting Through The Spiritual Materialism'.
The meaning of 'Cutting' is to cut off and sever everything I wanted to keep.
From such complete openness and perfect surrender, the path to enlightenment and spirituality begins.
You can only go forward by giving up all the desires expressed by the ego, all the dreams and hopes of attaining something transcendent through the study of the mind.
A life like that, unbound by anything, lets the world flow through me.
Then, we can build a fluid relationship with the world without unnecessary value assessments and judgments.
You can learn the true meaning of compassion and love and incorporate it into your life.
True compassion and love is about standing on one side and stopping the struggle to fight against the other.
A compassionate person does not try to be good, does not become unnecessarily solemn, and lives in the present moment.
I see all the games of behavior that take place around me in the name of spirituality as nothing more than trivial wordplay.
This attitude, which is the exact opposite of the ego's demands, may seem very violent and merciless to the ego, but if the reason we study the mind is to escape the ego's endless cravings, then this is the goal we should be pursuing.
It is for the same reason that it is said that the purpose of meditation practice is to become a wise and compassionate person.
When someone says they have reached a high state through meditation, what they mean is that they are fully aware of the present moment and their surroundings.
It is about living fully in the present moment without missing or ignoring anything.
For those who live in harmony, everyday life becomes an exciting source of inspiration.
Living solely in the present, without any preconceived notions about the past or future, every moment unfolds with infinite possibilities.
In Buddhism, a person who lives this kind of life is called a bodhisattva.
A bodhisattva is someone who courageously walks the path to enlightenment.
They see the strength of the earth in a small pebble and feel the energy of the universe in a single flower.
Because it is seamlessly connected to one's own nature, nature, and all circumstances of life.
They don't bother to plant seeds for tomorrow.
Always live in the present.
Like a Bodhisattva, those who study the mind must become fundamentally compassionate and wise people.
That is the key to entering into true spirituality, and it is all the spirituality and enlightenment we seek.
-Author's Note-
By carefully examining his own thoughts, feelings, concepts, and other mental processes, the Buddha discovered that we do not need to try to prove our existence.
You don't have to work hard to be free.
The absence of effort is freedom in itself.
A state of egolessness, that is the attainment of Buddhahood.
The process of changing the mind that has been expressing the desires of the ego through meditation practice and leading it to express its original bright enlightenment can be said to be the path of true study of the mind.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: March 31, 2021
- Page count, weight, size: 296 pages | 362g | 152*210*20mm
- ISBN13: 9788974799151
- ISBN10: 8974799154
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