Culture of Enlightenment
Thank
you Chris. It makes me happy to hear those words from someone like
you who I know has developed some clarity and knows what the
standards in the world of dharma are. I think like I have so many
times said, skillfully or unskillfully, that the standards in the
world of dharma are very poor. Shit, really.
My and our (!)
next goal, now that that method is tested and proven, is to make a
change in the culture of dharma. It is up to us to try to raise the
bar higher, than where it is. And it shouldn't be that difficult to
do if we all aim for it together.
It is not enough to leave
this world as buddhas. We need to make sure that the teaching is so
well grounded among our human brothers and sisters, that we needn't
worry that the teachings will get diluted or disappear in a long time
after we are gone. It is the teachings - the dharma - that has
transformed our lives. We come in touch with our sober minded reality
through these practices and it makes us truly discover who we are and
who we always wanted to be. To us it is needless to say that we would
have wanted to have these practices much earlier in life than we did
and it is needless to say that if the practices were more widely
spread, they'd make the world a much better place, the kind of place
where we would have wanted to grow up in perfectly sober and clear -
dharmic - environment.
The reason why my hair is on fire
about getting the message out there is because if I can help
alleviate the daily existential pain and suffering, it actually means
that someone like me and you, who grew up in deeply traumatised,
stressful and painful, needn't go through it like we did and then end
up practicing bad dharma for years on end that didn't work!
I
don't think there is anything more important in life than this.
-Kim, 14.10.2021
