Full Moon According to
Commoner
In
the mind of ordinary people, life is understood in terms of black and white.
When money, success, praise come, the
ordinary will be happy. If debts, failure, insults coming, then they suffer.
Even nature is understood in a similar framework. The dark night is identified
as the threatening fear. The light is called peace. The consequence then, life
is full of wave. Sometimes happy, other times sad.
Full
moon in this context is also understood in the same spirit. The journey begins
with the dark night without moon which is identified as suffering. That's why,
some increasing people who are interested in deep spirituality, joining
spirituality because their life is full of suffering.
In such
framework, shocking life is
actually a sound (holy bell) that indicating where the Guru and the holy
teachings are. As well as a holy invitation to begin a long road of healing and
peace. This can happen in human life with sufficient spiritual blessing.
Suffering does not make them run to drugs, fights and divorce, but rather the
opening door of long journey toward enlightenment.
At
the level of spiritual grace like this, find a speck of light to read the holy
book, meet friends with similar spiritual interests, begin visiting holy Guru
is partly good signs. But with a careful note, be careful with mystical
experience. Mainly because mystical experience often tempting people to feel
greater or better than others. This ascending ego can lead one into a very
dangerous abyss.
For
seekers with sufficient spiritual grace, it is more advisable to enter
religious experience. If the mystical experience filled with a feeling of
better than anyone else, in religious experience there is a hunger to
always be humble,
thirst to always serve. Borrowing
Kabir's
religious experience: "I glimpsed into that light just a few seconds, but
it transformed me into a servant of life".
The
light only appears for few seconds, but it changed Kabir's life in to a servant
of others. For this reason, a number of young people who ask about spiritual
life, it is always advised: "to be
spiritual is to be kind at the same time to be humble". Kind-hearted at
the same time humble, that's religious measures that could make a human being
slowly leave the dark tunnel of suffering, and then begin to see the
light. This is the holy way of returning
back home.
Full Moon According to
the Enlightened
Without
any intention of saying that the dualistic mind is always wrong, because all of
us are growing, the enlightened beings do not start the journey from the dark
night. Mainly because life is seen as a mandala (the physical form resembling
the full moon, the sun or the earth in
the form of perfect circle),
where the starting point and end
point can not be known. Since mandala is a symbol of perfection, then the enlightened learn to "rest" in
whatever that happens at the moment.
For
those who worship God, everything is God. Pupils of the Buddha see that nothing
which is not Buddha, then take good care of all elements of life (including
deficiencies and misfortunes) with affection. Here's exactly how to "take
a deep rest". Resting in compassion.
In
the poetic message of Rumi, life is similar to staying in the hotel, guests
change every day. But whoever the guest, never tired to smile! That is why most
of the enlightened beings continue to be born to carry out the holy calling of
service. If all enlightened beings rested him/herself in the enlightened realm,
then who will dispel the darkness of suffering here in the suffering realm? As
materials of contemplation, the wealth of enlightened beings are not money or
seat of power, but the touching
service to others.
In the spiritual heritage of a teacher:
"compassion should be without ambition". Loving service is performed
without the shadow of desire. Including not being followed by the desire to be
called as holy.
This
could explain why the light of the enlightened beings remain here for a very
long time. Jalalludin Rumi died hundreds ago, but his poems still touch many
lives until now. Mahatma Gandhi had long passed away, but his teachings will
still remain here for hundreds of years. Mother Teresa also passed away already, but her autobiography titled
"Come Be My Light" will still illuminate a lot of life.
Not
all enlightened beings wearing holy cloth, Mahatma Gandhi even wore simple
cloth, but there is a similarity among all touching heart, they keep seeing
everything and everyone with the eyes of a mother to the only son, treating all
creatures as butterflies approaching the essence of flowers: soft, gentle, full
of love.
The
frame of mind is very simple: understanding, loving-kindness, compassion.
Understanding is the first step. Especially the deep understanding that there
is something in common between us that we equally want to be happy. With this
common view in the heart, then love blossoms hand in hand with kindness.
Finally there is only one thing left, wholehearted service to all.
When
the unenlightened beings treat service as a duty, accompanied by the fear of
hell, in the hands of the enlightened beings service is as simple as water
which is naturally wet. Water does not need to strive to be wet. The same thing
happens to the enlightened beings. The nature of the enlightened beings are
full of service. It is similar to full moon that does not need to fight in
order to glow.
Illuminated
by this inspiration, the darkness of duality as heaven-hell, holy-mundane
vanished into the light of enlightenment. Quiet different to the ordinary, the
enlightened beings have
body, mind and heart alike.
The
body is called discipline. Because of discipline then the enlightened beings
can be perfectly absence of harming. Mind of the awakened is as wide as space.
That's why the awakened mind is totally absence of judgment. The enlightened heart contains only the
intention to serve. This is what this
humble article called as resting in compassion.
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