Dharma
Porn
For
those who don't practice or who practice too little, views and ideas
can turn into porn. Buddhists like to roll over in the thought of
emptiness. Emptiness this, emptiness that, emptiness, emptiness,
emptiness... people go on and on talking and thinking about
emptiness, as if they had fever. It is even more pleasurable when
one's favourite teacher or lama talks about emptiness. It is like our
fantasies becoming true. People associated with dzogchen, find
pleasure and delight in words such as rigpa and dzogchen. That's
their favourite thing, so they keep repeating these terms. Advaita
folks get goose bumps and shiver in pleasurable delight through all
those catchy phrases like I am That, I am That, I am That and oohh...
how it turns them on.
This
kind of thing is very common. People mistake the finger that points
to the moon, for the moon. Instead of practicing and finding the moon
of buddhahood within themselves, they start sniffing the finger and
develop a liking for it. It is OK for someone who is new but
sometimes you see people who have practiced for a long time who still
look at teachings very superficially like it was porn. Zen porn,
dzogchen porn, advaita porn, emptiness porn, lama porn, rigpa porn,
stream entry porn, kensho porn, guru porn, secular buddhist porn,
wearing robes porn, being a monastic porn, compassion porn,
enlightenment porn, purity of mind porn, nonduality porn, Dalai Lama
porn, Karmapa porn, my favourite lama porn, being a servant of all
beings porn, being awakened porn, taking refuge porn, getting a
dharma name porn and so on.
There
is a big difference between those who talk and those who walk. In my
view, most people associated with spirituality talk much more than
they walk. Some even want to remain as fans of dharma and never
become practitioners of it.
Getting
enchanted by ideas is a sign of immaturity. Getting enchanted by
ideas is samsara.
- Kim Katami
Open Heart Sangha,
