A theme lately: loving individuals versus loving the world (meaning here: reality, things-as-it-is, the dharmadhatu).
At the end of class, the yoga teacher massages my temples. I realize he cannot do this if he sees the students through the eye of preference and personality. He has to love the universe as each person. Otherwise, rather than giving a gift, he's handling sweaty women sprawled supine in a dark room.
It's easy to get confused, though. You find yourself attracted to someone because they remind you how beautiful the world is. Focus shifts onto the messenger. And messengers are fallible.
You can be estranged from individuals. But you cannot be estranged from the world, no matter how much it hurts. Hurting is part of loving something you cannot control.
This Dharma Teaching from Anam Thubten Tulku has held a lot of meaning for me.
Also, his face makes me cry. In a good way; encouraging, not painful.
Real freedom is freedom from our own conceptions, from the psychological veil that is distorting the way things are. When we are free from our own unenlightened mind, that internal veil, we see that even our problems are divine. Everything is a manifestation of Vajrayogini. That means that everything is divine. We have to love everything including the dark side of the world. We have to love whatever life presents to us. Are we ready to let go of all of our resistance and see all of life as divine, as a manifestation of Vajrayogini? This is a practical discipline.
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