Gyalsey_Laglen_v2_24092014_e-book

༨༽ ཤིན་ཏུ་བཟོད་དཀའི་ངན་སོང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་རྣམས།།
སྡིག་པའི་ལས་ཀྱི་འབྲས་བུར་ཐུབ་པས་གསུངས།།
དེ་ཕྱིར་སྲོག་ལ་བབས་ཀྱང་སྡིག་པའི་ལས།།
ནམ་ཡང་མི་བྱེད་རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་ཡིན།།
(8)
Buddha has said that the grief past endurance
of creatures whose lives contain nothing but pain.
Is the unfortunate fruit of the wrongs they’ve committed against other beings
in lifetimes gone by not wishing to suffer from horrible torment,
not flinching if even our life is at stake,
turn from all actions that harm other beings -
the Sons of the Buddha all practise this way.
Once you start practising Dharma, you are taking refuge. Until then, if you
take the ceremonial refuge, you may start to think about it seriously but you
are not really committed until you practise. The practice of Buddhadharma has
many faces, but first we have to obey the law of karma, which is very strong and
interesting and is the key point to follow.
The Buddha says that “grief passes the endurance of creatures whose lives
contain nothing but pain.” The pain of suffering in samsara is created by our own
bad accumulations, and it is the fruit or result of bad karma.
Actually, we do not want to follow anyone: we want to be free. There is really
no one punishing you. No one wants to be punished or wants to be controlled,
not even by the Buddha or one’s master. We all want freedom. And the purpose of
practicing the Buddhadharma is to be free from everything - free from suffering,
egoism, defilements and so on so forth. Ultimately, we will be enlightened,
which is the state of total freedom. The target of spiritual practice is for us to free
ourselves. Unfortunately, we are governed by our karma and we must follow that.
The karmic rule is strong and vital, something essential for us to watch. We have
to make ourselves free from the karma that keeps us busy and keeps us suffering.
Therefore, in terms of Dharma practice, the first thing to follow is karma.
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