Let him suffer!
Over and over again, I would come to
Maezumi Roshi and say, "So and so is in such pain, what can we do?" He would
reply, "Let him suffer! Let him go through it!" And I thought, "How cruel!"
Yet what is a Bodhisattva but someone who allows others to go through what they
must go through? Everybody else is trying to stop the pain, patching him up and
patting him on the back and saying, "It's OK, dear, everything is going to be
all right." Everybody is conspiring to cover things
up.
When you rob a person of his pain and suffering, you rob him of his life, his freedom, his independence; you keep him dependent on you. . . Ironically, it is the ones we most cherish whom we most often rob of their independence, because we tend to shield and overprotect them.
Dennis Genpo Merzel, The Eye Never Sleeps
When you rob a person of his pain and suffering, you rob him of his life, his freedom, his independence; you keep him dependent on you. . . Ironically, it is the ones we most cherish whom we most often rob of their independence, because we tend to shield and overprotect them.
Dennis Genpo Merzel, The Eye Never Sleeps
Posted: Mon - October 25, 2004 at 08:03 PM
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In a museum most people spend less than twenty seconds looking at a work of art."
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In a museum most people spend less than twenty seconds looking at a work of art."
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