AmericanBuddhistLight: Eager Beaver

Eager Beaver


Hi all Brothers and Sisters,

I had an interesting exchange with one of my online meditation group members today. This lovely girl has reached out for help from me. She was getting bullied at her job and lost her position seven months ago. Her depression increases by the day. She learned that her habit of interjecting aid and opinion to others when not asked for was behavior that she used with quite a lot of gusto, and only increased her own suffering. This young lady sadly stated that she had actually gotten angry at others when they did not heed her suggestions for their own troubles.

So many times us healers, spiritual teachers, ministers and monks and nuns are so filled with fireworks going off when we receive a revelation or inspiration in meditation. We have all been there. We have advanced another step on our pathway towards Nibbana (Pali=Nirvana-Sanskrit). We want to charge down the streets and shout it, we get stunned and bubbly and our chakras are spinning at lightening speed. It's true right?

The Lord Buddha had some valuable teachings related to tonight's story that I would like to share with you:

Receiving a revelation in meditation should be one that we observe and not get attached to. It will integrate into us and reveal it's messages in its own time,. So we should remain composed and not get stuck on it. Just let it be. If we tried to grab it, it would probably slide out of our hands and back into the water, like a flounder. We need to be mindful, as meditation is the training of mindfulness. This will help us train the mind and follow the pathway to the center of the body: 2 finger widths up from the navel at the cross section of two perpendicular lines that go left to right and front to back. The Enlightened Center, can be visualized as a crystal ball the size of an egg yolk or any other meaningful object of meditation like the sun, the moon or a flower right there in the exact center of the body. It is where every human being's Enlightened Center exists.

The other lesson from the Buddha is a calamitous one in deed. Are your socks knocked off yet? Well they will be. Luke said to Yoda when he came out of the cave, "I'm not afraid." And Yoda's reply was, "Oh you will be."

The lesson is this:

The Buddha says that we should never plow our ideas and suggestions onto another. Do not push your way into his or her dilemma. If you persist in forcing someone into one course of action or another, then their negative kamma will surely become yours. My response to my lady friend was, that I was sorry for her troubles, could I put her name on my healing altar where she will be prayed for every day. I then mentioned the consequences to her according to the Buddha's teachings. In this case, our young lady asked me for help. As we are travelers of this overwhelming life path, the hardest one there is to choose, where we are already working on your own body, mind, emotions and spirit, while trying to stop doing bad kamma, continue performing good kamma and meditating and chanting, etc. Do we really want to inherit the bad karma of another person, or ten persons or from someone who has killed people. Do we really want their heavy burdens added to our own.

Always remember that H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama stated, "I can only liberate myself."