BLIND DHARMA WITHIN SAMSARA

                                                                         

               "People of recent times take a lot lightly.

              They may enter communes, but they are lazy in pursuing intense inquiry. 

                    Even if they develop meditation they do not select a true master. 

           Through the mistakes of false teachers, like them 

                        they lose direction to the Ultimate.

                                                                                                        Fayan

                                               

"THEY HAVE NOT COMPREHENDED THE FACULTIES AND FIELDS OF SENSE,

 SO THEY HAVE FALSE UNDERSTANDINGS THAT LEAD THEM TO DELUDED 

       STATES, WHERE THEY LOSE THE TRUE BASIS COMPLETELY."

   

                    BLIND DHARMA SOLUTIONS IN THE SAMSARA WORLD

    THE PAGE THAT LEADS NOWHERE

      FOR THOSE WHO WANT EVERYTHING

LIFE IS DIFFICULT IN STAINED SAMSARA

           What is it that you want out of this life which is so precious and so short?                                                               

                                                       What are the options?

         Psychologists and society pressure say that you should develop self-esteem,

                         work within a set of social ethics and pursue happiness.

                    Somewhere somehow along the line something has gone wrong.

                            We really don't need self-esteem and happiness.

They are just false illusions that accompany suffering.

 画龙点睛

        This Chinese idiom means:

"to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes".

                 Its significance is:

                 "to add the finishing touch, the crucial point, that brings the truth to light."

                                        Sometimes perhaps it just requires a few words.

                So here in this section, in the spirit of Yunmen,

                with I hope ironic ego-damaging words, Dharma points may finally

                be taken to heart, and the true Dharma approached.

                           We will then paint the Dragon and dot in the Eyes.

                                                           So here we present:

            

           EIGHT BLIND DHARMA ANSWERS TO WORLDLY SUFFERING

                     

Although no-one can make a complete new start,

anyone can start now and make a brand new end

What exactly is a BLIND DHARMA solution? Well, it is a solution that, 

as far as Society is concerned, is correct and fits into its globalized system or suits the moral structure that has been built over centuries. They are much 

easier answers than Dharma, but of course, they are really blind to the

real qualities of the human creature and his or her potential.  

They are presented here and perhaps with a little introspection you can

see True Dharma lurking there behind the words. 

The Dragon

Drawing the dragon is easy enough, but it is the dotting of the eye that gives the dragon of Samsara life.

There is nothing evil or wrong about Samsara. It is simply a world of illusion

and the problem is that although the illusion is essential in dealing with the

world, the human creature never dots those eyes, so the Dragon of Samsara just wanders about falling into all sorts of traps while it is young until it finally meets good old George the Dragon killer, who doesn't kill the Dragon but gives it a social and acceptable Identity, globalized of course.

Poor old Dragon. Do you think it really likes wandering about shooting out 

flames...? No, that is damned uncomfortable. What it wants to do is eat a little... play a little... even work a little and then enjoy, in a dragon way,

life as it really is.

Poor old Dragon...