One-sidedness vs Free flow
Buddhism and the whole spiritual scene does suffer of one-sidedness. This is due to too simplistic interpretation about the psyche of man which leads to an oversimplified view of enlightenment which leads to an oversimplified view of anything and everything, including politics. How spirituality is sold to us is all peace, love and happiness but rarely about discrimination or wrath, even if these expressions are in the most basic teachings of buddhism, hinduism and christianity.
If you look at the lives and actions of the founders and great masters of these religions, and the deities and how they express the enlightened mind, you'll quickly realize that oh, the teaching is about peace and love but this peace and love is and can also be expressed through discrimination, defense and wrathful action, sometimes even offense. Look at Jesus raging around and turning over tables in the temple, look at Padmasambhava sending one of his disciples to assassinate the local lord who was killing buddhists and destroying places of practice. These men, or masters, if you will, had tremendous fire and strong sense what is wrong or right. They were not peaceful sissies or indifferent morons with fixated views. They weren't raging all the time either.
I am not making these examples this up. These stories are told in the Bible and it's many versions and in the traditional Tibetan accounts. If we look at the way how spirituality is taught and presented to us, in that one-sided "peace, love and happiness" way, we can see that there is something missing here. If we contemplate and meditate this carefully, we come to realize that if we look at all things in the relative world through the lense of unconditional love and acceptance, we actually distort the reality (dharma), and so we actually remove ourselves from reality.
Spiritual people need to understand that theoretically spirituality is the solution to all problems of the world but actually it isn't and never can be. Life on this planet is a vast ongoing process involving numberless amount of people who all exercise their free will and resources of power in the way they see best. Politicians and activists, as well as one-sided spiritualists, create and get fixated with their views, parties and missions but unavoidably end up with a limited views and solutions that cannot but make themselves impotent when it comes to finding universal solutions. It's shortsighted, sad and stoopid.
Only free flow works. Free flow means not having fixed views yet knowing all available possibilities.
Kim Rinpoche, 10.5.2022
