ZEDNBOB TONY AND ALL WHO ARE READY TO OPFN UP for GRACE

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ZENBOB

 

 

your LOVE your WISDOM your HEART

 

I S

 

G R A C E

 

what a long and difficult journey /journey s you must have gone

to being able to radiate this love a n d transmit in clearcut

nononsense no intellectual mindplaying (for not using the not so nice f

word) WISDOM

 

YOU ARE AUTHENTIC AND ALL THIS SHOWS WHO YOU ARE

 

PLEASE DEAR UNKNOWN FRIEND DEAR BOB

 

 

A C C E P T THIS

 

 

Dear warrior

 

what a Grace you experience by these messages of LOVE AND COMPASSION ZenBob

sends you

please do not harm yourself not opening up

help yourself by accepting yourself and loving yourself

 

 

in GD i trust

 

 

or even better said

 

in GD i am

 

 

michael

 

i did not snip the following because reading sharing and saving this words

of love and wisdom

 

i s GRACE

 

 

 

>zen2wrk

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>Re: Lama Surya Das.

>Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:04:15 EDT

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>In a message dated 9/6/2004 1:23:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

>aoclery writes:

>

>The Hevajra tantra says we are all Buddhas by nature but must,

>through our own spiritual work, awaken to ourselves.'

>

>This indicates to me that in the Dzogchen tradition, Sadhana is of

>the essence of awakening. Purification of the

>Buddhi........ONS..Tony.

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>THis is quite true. Like all great truths, aspects of it are also false

>and

>aspects are more true than others.

>

>How a Buddha who is not yet awakened (not yet a Buddha, but a potential

>Buddha, with a real Buddha nature) can ACT to awaken themseves depends on

>the

>path or Dharma of that individual Buddha in waiting. THere is not one

>solitary

>path of awakening. And Self realization may happen by stubbing a toe,

>seeing

>a sunset, drinking tea, or having Grace descend on them with a

>thunderclap.

>Dzogchen stresses that there are necessary burdens that the rough an

>unschooled in the Ways must take in order to prepare themselves to be

>worthy...and

>that their readiness depends solely on their own inner nature. Grace too

>cannot enter into one who has locked the doors so tightly that grace

>cannot

>enter. So too, the Buddha nature blossoms like a flower when the right

>combination of sun and water are given...the sun is like unto sacrifice

>and hard work,

>the water is like purifying rain, the grace of heaven, the laughter of a

>child that opens the hardened heart. Why do you think the Lotus is the

>very

>symbol of spiritual awakening in Buddhism?????

>

>Many sublime masters of Dzogchen have commented that they studied the

>books,

>said the prayers and even lectured for years, believeing that they were

>very

>close to achieving the supreme awakening. Then found, after some setback

>or

>disillusionment, that they had progressed in no way at all. Then, giving

>up

>this path, wandered as beggars or even took up arms as mercenary soldiers.

>In time, they were confronted with some choice, taks or event that totally

>surprised them, saved them when they should have been destroyed...allowed

>them

>to see the very soul of the divine when they least expected it, and

>instantly at that moment, forgot who they were and all that they had taken

>within

>themmselves to that moment in time. Suspended in space, floating on the

>calm

>tides of divine grace, they knew in that instant how and where they had

>erred...with pride, intellect, or even just habitual repetition that

>destroyed the

>vitality of the Living Divine Power that is the Universe.

>Everyone in Dzogchen sort of like the idea of achieving the "pure land"

>ideal and wants to think that if they just do enough of this or that, ,

>count

>enough beads and prayers, etc., spin enough wheels that they will get

>closer to

>this absolute state of non-thinking bliss.

>

>It's really a sort of hopeless long path toward a truly clear mind. A

>clear

>mind must always allow the blessings from love infuse the

>soul...otherwise,

>if a machine were the answer every computer would disappear into that

>perfect

>place of bliss.

>

>We are not machines, and we are made to feel feelings, not because they

>are

>illusions or hindrances, (althoug the attachment to the material thing

>that

>we mistake for true feeling can be!) but because they are the strings that

>connect us to the divine itself. If we cut those strings, Tony, we do not

>get

>closer to the Divine, we drift hopelessly adrift in a sea of cold,

>heartless

>things...and in that dark place, there is no easy way to find the light

>again.

>

>Well, that;s my two-bits worth for now...

>

>Chew some more on it Tony. Maybe as you walk in a park some squirrel will

>run out and bite you, you will get a serious infection, this will lead to

>days

>of terrible fever and delirium, and in your delirium, without really

>thinking about it, you will cry out, "Why God, Why me? Please, if you will

>only end

>my suffering...I will do thy bidding without question" And then Wham!

>Grace

>flies in through your open window and pecks you on the cheek...you cry,

>you

>blather like a child and your heart is filled with this unspeakable joy

>and

>pain at the same time...your nurse runs in, sees you are hysterical, in

>the

>midst of a catharsis, gives you a sedative, and by morning the next day,

>you are

>well rested, your fever has passed, and for an instant, you think maybe

>all

>of that was just a fever-dream ...except that you still have the scar from

>the squirrel bite and the peck on the cheek and this wordless joy, this

>sense

>of being at peace with the universe and you realize that you will never

>have

>doubt, fear or loneliness again, that whatever else happens in your life,

>it

>will not matter...that you have changed forever, and you will do good

>things,

>not for Karmic reward or out of fear, but because doing good things is

>what

>you do now, and you would never for a moment think of doing otherwise.

>

>Peace,

>

>Zenbob

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