Advice for Self Counseling
— whips of wild fire to eliminate the germs of my defects
In the phenomena of dazzling colors,
there are the bright, the dark path and the one in the middle.
One who is separated from the bright path,
puts himself in the dark side, teaching the eight ways of worldly dharmas.
In the phenomena of dazzling colors,
there are wise-men and foolish-men and others in-between,
who don’t know how to separate white from black,
being puzzled in the maze of eight worldly dharmas.
In the appearance of dazzling colors,
the one who mixes up the Buddha Dharma and worldly dharmas,
takes the eight worldly dharmas as the Buddha Dharma,
and pretends to be a sangha.
Who else could do it, but YOU!
In the vision of dazzling colors,
the one who waves the monk rope high in the wind,
throws away the ultimate wisdom in the air,
and collects only empty words.
Who else could he be, but YOU!
In the illusionary world of dazzling colors,
the one who thinks himself as a sangha,
but indulges himself in the worldly affairs –
a hypocrite with grandeur appearance but empty inside.
Who else could he be, but YOU!
In the phenomena of dazzling colors,
the one who claims himself of being occupied with benefiting the others,
but actually enslaves himself in the samsara,
and ends up with empty hands.
Who else could he be, but YOU!
In the appearance of dazzling colors,
the one who thinks that power and worldly pleasures are ready for him by his seat,
and poses himself majestically without any meaning,
such imprudent lightheaded.
Who else could be so, but YOU!
In the vision of dazzling colors,
being drunk from the wine of desire and anger,
he pretends to give others guidance,
such a deceptive dancer.
Who else could he be, but YOU!
In the illusionary world of dazzling colors,
the one doesn’t recognize his own arrogance,
associates with people with wealth and fame,
thinks just like a politician.
Who else could he be, but YOU!
In the phenomena of dazzling colors,
the one who is just like hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousand people,
driven by sweet talk and chase after profits like the unstable wind,
deceives himself.
Who else could he be, but YOU!
In the appearance of dazzling colors,
ever since a delusion takes place in his heart,
then he stays content with himself with his self-centered trickery,
and stubbornly holds on to his own opinions.
Who else could he be, but YOU!
In the visionary world of dazzling colors,
The destiny and duty of married couples,
to chase after the light and sound of vanity.
How could it be the purpose of a real Sangha?
(I) should not even put my eyes and ears on people who,
brag about benefiting the others all the time,
but keep wandering from places to places,
and love the superficial grandeur.
Not even for a second should I have the slightest thought of,
pretending to have only very few desires,
but actually wangting anything desirable for myself，
taking everything the others have to offer.
Neither should I ever become one of the people who,
think about profits, social position and political power,
even in their dreams,
just like a pile of stones decorated with a monk’s dress on the top.
Never should I take any steps on the road of,
making bad intellectualist arguments.
to keep the learners to my own teaching,
in the name of practicing Buddha Dharma.
May (I) never have any errors in meditation,
such as clinging to the most subtle form of assumption.
and never come out from the steal cage in which,
the pure cogitation of ultimate truth via meditation is constructed.
May (I) always stay on the perfect path of Buddha Dharma,
in all the circles of my rebirth,
May (I) never get confused,
and mistaken by the non-Buddha, non-Dharma actions.
Since my birth till now, more than half of my life time, I saw myself floating in the wind of meaningless eight worldly dharmas. And I wrote this note on the New Year Day of the Earth Pig Year of the 17th Rabjung, to remind myself that I should do my best to put each and every thought and step of mine on the right direction of Buddha Dharma practice for the remaining part of my life. In addition, I would also like to encourage my friends in the same ways, because I see it’s very important.
By Hungkar Dorje.
