Falling Down’s A Good Sign
We move ahead a few steps, then we go back a few steps…we find it hard to battle the ‘inner demons’ within ourselves fighting all the time…we find the secret struggles never end…it almost seems futile… we find transformation so difficult. Does it get any easier? It doesn’t get easier. The battle never stops. It gets worse and the struggles will bring us down. THAT IS GOOD. If there was no battle, then we know we are on the wrong path. The battle is actually our own efforts….efforts long overdue and weak at this point. Sometimes we fall because most of the time we were down, and now we are starting to get up, as we get up we fall. The fact that we fall, means we are getting up again and again. Remember Buddha under the Bodhi Tree in the last watch of the night, the maras attacked Him full force…even one so close to Buddhahood was attacked…so imagine for us? Never give up..because there is nothing to give up for….Tsem Rinpoche
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Indeed, I’m faced with this every day!
Observe how a baby/child learn. Exactly as describe by HE Tsem Tulku Rinpoche. That baby/child is you and me. Our spiritual learning will also use the same method. Never give up until the goal is reach.
Very beautiful. Indeed anything worth doing is not going to be easy. But because it is not easy is exactly why we should never give up!
Thank you for you words of wisdom beloved Rinpoche!
*Deep Bow*
Rafael
Whenever, we fall, we have not failed. We have only failed when we stay down. Every time we fall, we should take the opportunity improve. Because whether we learn to get up or not, in life, we will fall.
Thankyou Rinpoche,
It really helped me the part,as we get up we fall. Iv been falling a lot lately..more than usual,but i havent been running to booze and other stuff..(thats not a dig at people who drink..i had a major problem with booze etc..)it feels painful,but you make me see its been progress and im falling and not using the fall as an exuse to strengthen old negativities and indulge in my addictions.thanks.
Yes. Whenever I feel down and demoralised and succumbed to my own delusions on self-destructive mode, I must embrace myself not to give up, as how Lord Buddha has stood up against the full force from Mara at the eve of awakening.
I love this post very, very much. Dear Rinpoche, thank you for sharing with us this precious dharma. Thank you.
To say is very easy.But to put into action is hard. Like what Rinpoche say when you fall is good sign. We have to know the reason why we fall before we can pick ourselves and stand up and walk again. And thats where Dharma and Gurus play a major role in our lives to help us transform, contemplate and meditation and understanding Karma as the cause of our falling and the remedy to apply. Rinpoche’s life have been a series of sufferings all through his life. He started Kechara Paradise but never gave up. And today is the result of the Kechara House with 13 Departments which will lead to KWPC with the biggest Tsongkapa Statue of 118ft tall in the near future.
So very true. I always learn from mistakes and always remind myself not to repeat the same mistakes. Nobody is perfect, we must always fight our inner demons that always want us to fail. Should we give in, we’ll never succeed.
Moving a few steps ahead then fall back 1 step is better than not moving forward but keep falling behind. We can never stay stagnant at 1 place as time and tide waits for no one. We are either moving forward or falling backwards continuously.
We must put in the effort to become overcome ourselves!
i mean we must put in the effort to overcome ourselves!
Thank you Rinpoche for this post. It reassures me that my inner struggles are not in vain. I recognise now it is a long overdue effort to fix myself. Too much comfort in the past has spoiled me rotten. Now is pay back time. Knowing that I am on the right path gives me comfort and keeps me going.
Sometimes for a week I am on straight road, smooth and inspiring; next few days on uphill, up up hill, do not know where will be heading. Sometimes you thought there must be no more hills ahead after so many hills, and you are wrong. Seeing this message I want to say thank you, my Guru, I will tell myself not to give up, I really have nothing to give up.