The Echo In Empty Valley

"Turn your behind upon your fatherland,
Accept anothers homeland,
Live during a bottom of a hilly cliff,
Take wild animals as your companions,
Abandon concern for food, wardrobe or renown.

Root your thoughts in a Dharma,
Root your Dharma in humility,
Root your humility in a suspicion of death,
Root your genocide in an dull valley."I hold which quotation is attributed to Dromton Gyalwe Jungney, though usually theme to correction, since these days you am perplexing to forget everything you ever listened about Buddhism, in sequence to remember what you might already know.As it happens, you am camped during a bottom of a hilly cliff. If not wild, a rabbits around these parts have been during least rowdy. you do not have a total lot of choice where food, clothing, or reputation have been concerned. you do not know about humility -- you think if a single says, "Aha! you am humble," afterwards a single is no longer humble -- though you do know about death, since it whispers in my ear ever some-more loudly.
Oh, as well as a single some-more thing... this place is a unequivocally clarification of an dull valley.
Over a past multiform months, we've been publishing sketches of this place, as well as for a past multiform weeks we've been examining a history. Perhaps you will recall you referred to which a famous shaman used to live here, though it seems you never explicitly settled because he lived here.
Well, which slip is simple to rectify.
It was since of a acoustics.

The breeze has sculpted a hilly precipice over a past seventeen ! thousand years. At a right of a sketch rught divided above, you see a defect where a suggestion once lived. The land was underwater then, as well as this was a spirit's cave. In a sketch with which this post begins, you see a "cave" which a breeze subsequently formed, once a waters receded. Taken as a whole, these facilities of a precipice consolidate a remarkable "Earth Ear."
If you lay in a cliff's breeze cave, you can listen to during unequivocally good distances -- roughly magically so. A person station three hundred yards divided can spin his or her behind as well as whisper something, as well as you will listen to what they say as transparent as a bell."As for these benefaction appearances of stones as well as rocks, plateau as well as forests, trees as well as plants, as well as so forth, do not hold them to be anything during all, as well as do not explain them to be anything during all. Do not repudiate what appears, as well as do not explain them to be or not to be. Their coming is a healthy appearance, as well as their... void is a healthy emptiness. Like a temperament of space, let their temperament be of course empty, as well as let their coming be abandoned of a self-nature." -- PadmasambhavaSo, it seems easy to get carried divided with all this unsteadiness about cliffs, valleys, shamans, as well as acoustics, doesn't it? Particularly when you stop to recall which all you have been doing is watching a enchanting suit picture. You take a sketch below. Do you see, there in a center, where a ravens have incited to stone? Do you see where a "HUM" is becoming different in to a "BAM" in a clouds?
You can have up your thoughts to listen to anything you wish to hear. You can see anything you wish to see. You can remonstrate yourself of anything.

Every incident reserve a own instruction. At a unequivocally impulse it is posited, any question embodies a own answer. When you step divided from this place -- when you travel a short stretch in to a chaparral, divided from a bottom of a precipice -- when you spin behind as well as clap your hands, or whistle, or shout, you have been greeted with an echo.
An echo.
When you have been inside a ear a breeze carved from a cliff, you listen to things utterly clearly, as well as when you have been outside, you have been treated to a single of a eight, good similes of illusion?"As in an echo, things can be viewed though there is zero there, either outward or inside." --Patrul RinpochePatrul Rinpoche liked to allude to from Dromtonpa as many as you do. He once recounted a story where Dromtonpa asked Atisha, "what was a ultimate of all teachings." Atisha replied which a "ultimate is void of which caring is a unequivocally essence." Dromtonpa wondered why, if this were true, there have been so many people who explain to have realized emptiness, though have no less of attachment as well as hatred.
"Because their fulfilment is usually words," Atisha replied.

Many distinguished masters have stopped talking, as well as incited their backs upon which which is merely ordinary, in sequence to cultivate which which is definitely ordinary. In a generation which is right away roughly entirely gone -- save for a few diehards -- it was common to spend a good deal of time during a bottom of hilly cliffs. None of a teachers you have privately well known unsuccessful to take this step. None of a teachers proclaimed as good have unsuccessful to take this step. It seems roughly necessary, doesn't it? As an example -- you demea! nour dur ing these cinema of Chatral Rinpoche published here, as well as may be you will be inspired to think to yourself, "Well, if an aged guy similar to which can do it, afterwards because can't I?"

Oh, indeed. Once, many years ago, you was up a Eldorado County with my teacher, roving along a main road surrounded by magnificent plateau as well as forests. you think you were upon a approach behind from Nevada or something. As you looked out a window, you remarked, "You know, you regularly longed for to live in a place similar to this."
"Bullshit," my clergyman replied.
"I beg your pardon, Rinpoche? you was only observant which you regularly longed for to live in a place which looks similar to this."
"Bullshit," he said again. "If you unequivocally longed for to do it, you would have finished it already."
Emptiness of which caring is a unequivocally essence is a same issue. You can explain this as well as that, though still have a unequivocally tough heart. However, if you have been unequivocally utterly sincere about wanting to be of good to others, afterwards things will shift unequivocally quickly. Of this you can assure you. All you have to do is only do it. Just stop articulate about it, as well as go do it."It is no make make make make use of of of of taking all a vows, from those of refuge up to a tantric samayas, unless you spin your thoughts divided from a things of this world.It is no make make make make use of of of of constantly priesthood a Dharma to others unless you can pacify your own pride.It is no make make make make use of of of of creation swell if you banish a refuge precepts to a final place.It is no make make make make use of of of of putting ! in servi ce day as well as night unless you combine this with bodichitta."Patrul Rinpoche wrote that, quoting Geshe Kharak Gomchung. What this equates to is which you can go off tramping in a hills as well as wastelands, as well as park during a bottom of cliffs until a rabbits play banjos, though if you do not get a little softer any day, something is really, really, unequivocally wrong.
The many important aspect of this thing you have agreed to call "Buddhism" is to ensue from a fully-flowered wish to good others. Often as not, this wish flower arrangement from impassioned suffering. For example: perhaps a loved a single has died. You have been utterly bereft. Maybe you wish to go jump off a mountain in sequence to stick on them. So, you stand a mountain as well as wail to a sky, "I do not wish anybody else to go by this! All this life only ends in genocide as well as afterwards you cry! you wish to find a approach to save everybody else this misery! you do not caring what happens to me anymore!"
Such a thing is utterly spontaneous, as well as natural. Such a thing is regularly inherently benefaction in a tellurian heart; it is a approach a heart speaks to itself. One little impulse -- a single fraction of a micro-second -- of which healthy arising is enough to means an complete lifetime. Maybe it can means multiform lifetimes. We have been speaking of something which powerful.
This is what joins us, or connects us, or defines us, or expresses us as tellurian beings. Whatever difference you wish to use. This is where a erring notice you have of any alternative as somehow separate, apart, or unique breaks down completely. This is where you demeanour during a sky, as well as see ourselves. This is where you demeanour during any other, as well as see ourselves. This is where you demeanour during ourselves, as well as see others. This is where you demeanour during ourselves, as well as see a sky. This is where a judg! e, a cri tic, a commentator, as well as all a report comes to an abrupt halt.This is what you have been here to recognize.
The reason a single hangs around a cliff, listening to whispers, as well as hooting a peculiar echo, is to give one's self a possibility to base out a thing which will allow a single to love.
To become love, actually.

[If you'd similar to to read some-more from a work you quoted, consult Patrul Rinpoche, The Words of My Perfect Teacher. Shambala book (1998).]