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Kunlong
By: Custodian Date: November 3, 2018, 9:59 am
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Kunlong, the Basis of Learning and Teaching
Kun Long
In Tibetan, the term for what is considered to be of the
greatest significance in determining the ethical value of a
given action is the individual's kun long. Translated literally,
the participle kun means "thoroughly" or "from the depths," and
long (wa) denotes the act of causing something to stand up, to
arise, or to awaken. But in the sense in which it's used here,
kun long is understood as that which drives or inspires our
actions--both those we intend directly and those which are in a
sense involuntary. It therefore denotes the individual's
overall state of heart and mind. When this is wholesome, it
follows that our actions themselves will be (ethically)
wholesome.
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Re: Kunlong is the monk of you
By: Timur2020 Date: November 9, 2018, 11:13 am
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Self possession is pretty essential to self sacrifice. Without
knowing who and what we are, we don't know what we give? We
really don't have the value of what we give up either, it only
registers as "more loss".
Thomas Merton (acceptable for credit studies) said "To be a monk
is to be fully human first" and he love saying "now&later"
things, but it is the surrender to the higher self that is part
of the surrender to God. We have to decide to Reclaim ourselves
from everything external, if even for a moment and only accept
that which is edifying, healing, helpful in our efforts to be
more "complete".
A monastic approach (monk=mono=you alone with God) to
spirituality or religious practice requires withdrawal from the
external, the secular, practically everything we've "made a deal
with" as part of reclaiming the self we leave to neglect. The
self we sacrifice and try to ignore in exchange for other
arrangements we have made.
So we decide what we can give up that is pretty useless and what
we can fill that time with that is use-ful. Gaining in some way
to us. First we call for a complete silence; we take a deep
relaxed breath or two and start listening for more of the song.
The song that is always calling us to a fuller, if not larger
destiny. There is always the desire for "more" cropping up, but
more in "glory" is not more in might and glory takes up an awful
lot of ourselves when we are engaged in it.
Monks are warriors! (Especially ours) but they have to be as
good at calling for total silence as they are conquest.
So then we must reclaim ourselves from what we were engaged in,
"reset", clean out, remove extra unwanted "apps" of our
attention and takers of our mental energy, to reconcile all that
past against what and why we are after a more peaceful, less
complicated and more contemplative future that is more
"effective" in providing us with what we really feel we seek in
our sense of self, purpose, destiny, identity - to really give
something we have to acknowledge who we are giving it to, even
if its ourselves. To receive anything, we have to turn down the
loudspeakers of the world and all that keeps us in a constant
state of stress a lot higher than it should be.
But we love life! We are wild! Even in the parameters of
civilization, we are "exuberant", loving to chase joy and
wonder.....and too often anything else that looks like "sport".
The monk has to think about that. Will he use his training to
accomplish monklike things or will he enter competative sports?
As soon as we super ourselves up, often our first thought is
"My! Aren't I strong?!" and the Gilgamesh or Samson rises in us
and it is the Samson/John the Baptist rise we want to go with.
Gilgamesh already had his day if we are over 25. We love our
vitality and strength! We look for places and ways to exercise
them. A monk just looks a little harder, not taking what just
comes up and is a little pickier about what his power and
strength are used to accomplish. A lost soul is a tragedy that
creates disaster, but a highly trained and experienced
intentional one...how much greater damage and wrath could he do?
Someone just schlepping along "reacts", but what can an eagle
eyed joy boy do, if he reacts passionately, like others often
do? He becomes too strong and capable to be mindless. The
empowered body requires the fortified mind to control and direct
it. Instincts like fight-or-flight have new meanings the monk
can not be blind to.
It is the mental reclamation that is every bit (almost) as
important as the spiritual one and legs strong enough for the
task, edified by more conscientious care of our self.
(To be continued - rounds)
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