Take to the Dharma,
for if one solely takes to the world,
the world and its murky shadow of a self
shall enter into one's mental abode.
Habitually forming and generating
positive merit through avoiding
the stinging influences of desire,
good habits follow those who follow good intentions.
Though not perfect, the sadhaka
throws away bucket loads
of unsatisfying and unnecessary
experiential phenomena just by taking
to heart the ever auspicious seeds of the Buddha's Wisdom.
Impermanently happy when planting
the seeds of their own destruction
by means of disregarding the injunctions
of the Accomplished Ones,
and permanently sad when reaping
the matured fruits of their own debased actions,
the residents of Samsara weep upon awakening
and continue to weep when going to sleep.
As there is no true rest
for the wicked at heart,
the rest that is given by peaceful meditation
upon Emptiness is all that is needed
by those who are for the world's gradual or immediate upliftment.
Whether in want of Samsara or Nirvana,
the result is the same for both parties of practitioners.
Practicing to be of a desirous nature,
the desirous accumulate one degraded tendency
after another just as a pot eventually fills up
with every drop of water that is added into it.
Practicing to be of a desireless nature,
the desireless only accumulate
what is meant to be accumulated while reaching
the Supreme Destination of a purified threefold vehicle of body, speech and mind.
As those who are fearful for their ongoing lives
do not drink or touch the poison
of impurified conceptions of existence,
so too does the sadhaka harm neither
his or her mental abode
through doing that which causes
perpetual suffering to the innocent of heart.
Those who respect with utmost sincerity
the purity of others will not become
mixed into the decaying pool
of rotten and worn out emotions,
but will only be bathed in the Clear Luminosity
of their own Empty Minds.
Being of the Buddha Nature,
no harm will come to such a sadhaka,
for that type of sadhaka belongs to the pure conception of Liberated Awareness.
Finding no adequate shelter from the ways of Samsara,
the unhappy try to hide in the most remote
of places, whether within or without,
but due to their self consuming appetites,
the shadow of desire and the shadow of death
follows them wherever they are.
By reversing one's tendencies
and by changing into something that is unchangeable,
the sadhaka can go anywhere
without having to see his or her projections,
for the mental abode of the sadhaka
is comparable to the Infinite and Far Reaching Sky.
Copyright - The Blue Cross And Shining Sunset Academy
Author: Julian Colgan
