"Drive all blames into one."
- Jamgon Kongtrul
What if we stop trying to assign blame for the situations that plague our search for peace of mind?
“Transcendence restores humor. Spirit restores humor. Suddenly, smiling returns. Too many representatives of too many movements, even very good movements, such as feminism, environmentalism, meditation, spiritual studies, seem to lack humor altogether. In other words, they lack lightness, they lack a distance from themselves, a distance from the ego and it’s grim game of forcing others to conform to it’s contours.
There is self transcending humor, or there is the game of ego power…
(We) should all trade the pounds of ego for one ounce of laughter.”
-Ken Wilber (The essential Ken Wilber,1998,p.185)
In Jamgon Kongtrul’s The direct path to Enlightenment, a list of useful aphorisms, “Drive all blames into one” is followed by “Be grateful to everyone.”.
It’s good to stand up for things that we believe in, but, just maybe, not so beneficial to get lost in them.
This is because herein we risk creating more polarization and division, and defeat our goal of making things better.
Earthlings are known throughout the inner Solar System for two things; their creativity and their resourcefulness.
When some Earthling astronauts were scheduling their next mission, they decided that since some of them had already visited their moon, and they wanted to visit someplace that had not been visited before, they would go to the Sun.
Their engineers protested that this was impossible. It was too hot!
They replied “Don’t worry! We’ll go at night!”
Namaste, Daniel
Again,
"Namaste" translates as: “May the Light within me honor the Light within You!”
