Sixth & Love

5 Responses to Sixth & Love

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   martin on Oct 23, 2010 at 3:59 am

   Such beautiful words. Whilst i may not know its true meaning, i gather from those stanzas that we are to fall completely in love with the Dharma instead of being in the grasp of our love for life itself.

   Falling “in love” when we were young kids was a lot easier and intense and purer than as we grow up. As we mature, loving comes with so many “conditions” and being in-love takes so much of overcoming the past. There is so much fear and factors to consider.

   The poem helps me to recall that sensation of the first true love i ever experienced and how totally and intensely that love engulfed my life. How each moment is a longing to be with that love.

   How much easier it would be if we think of Dharma as our first true love. How exhilirating and liberating. And sufficient.

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   Anila on Oct 24, 2010 at 2:08 pm

   True love without conditions or motives are pure love and hard to find. Only Buddhas can do that. We are in Samsara. It is hard to find anyone to do things for you without a condition. Like when you work for an office you expect to be paid so as to sustain yourself and that is a condition. Even doing dharma work most people do because of the merits they can collect in their lives. I may be going put of point in trying to analyse and understand what the 6th Dalal Lama wrote in his poem. Sometimes I can see the point but its hard to express and comment in my limited English vocabulary. All I can say what the 6th Dalal Lama wrote in his poem is very deep and profound.

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   Uncle Eddie on Oct 27, 2010 at 5:16 pm

   At the initial stages, everyone has different levels of development of love – stronger for those closer to oneself and weaker for those who are not so closed. However, as one’s practice gradually developes one’s love can become equal in strength towards each and every being. Of course it is definitely not easy for such “equal-pervasive” love to be developed right away. It must come gradually and be cultivated with much time and patience properly. As in most experiences in the early stages of practice love, compassion and faith are usually mixed with a little of the afflictive immotions. It is neccesary first to remove all these afflictive predepositions in our own inner self. As practicioners, our real target or battle should be within ourselves. Through the practice of minimising or eradicating such counter productive qualities, we will at least be able to attain a more mental peace of mind and calmness at least, if not reaching buddhahood within this very life.

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   mima on Nov 1, 2010 at 5:15 pm

   so true!

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   Bonita on Dec 27, 2010 at 9:56 pm

   Is so true! Like Rinpoche always says ‘You’re in dharma but is dharma in you?’

   Things are easier said than done. If we don’t put in the extra extra extra effort, we will loose in the end as time and tide waits for no one!

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