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In today's teaching the 2nd part of "Parting from the Four Attachments" in the part about Boddhicitta it was said that one should develop Boddhicitta to be able to efficiently help others. But there already ARE beings who reached Enlightenment, who are omniscient, omnipresent, who ALREADY help all sentient beings in best ever possible way. So why me? What else could I give to the perfect help of the Buddhas who are already helping?

 

This appeared in my mind, when I was thinking of a horse whose leg is seriously sore and if the responsible person would let her to the veterinarians, the horse would be killed already. So I was thinking, ok, if I'd be a Buddha or at least a Boddhisattva right now, I'd be able to efficiently help to that horse. But then it came to me: there already ARE Buddhas who are helping in best possible way!!! So what else could I give more to the already existing perfect help of the Buddhas given to the horse?

The answer is: nothing. It is not the horse. Maybe the whole meaning is helping oneself to become free, to become a Buddha, to realize one own's true nature.

 

What do you think?

 

All the very best, Khestun

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The answer is: nothing. It is not the horse. Maybe the whole meaning is helping oneself to become free, to become a Buddha, to realize one own's true nature.

What do you think?

That indeed, at this point, you seem far from Mahayana motivation! And that without Bodhicitta, you won't reach Enlightenment, which is very sad.

 

A Buddha can help someone only if that someone has created the causes for being helped. Among the causes are the individual connections we have accumulated along lives with many people. It is possible that a Bodhisattva who has a certain karmic connection with a being will be able to help that being more efficiently than a nearby Buddha. Why, since the Bodhisattva has less Realization than the Buddha? Because of the specific karmic connections the Bodhisattva had with that person.

 

That way, we can say that if there is still so much suffering, despite the presence of many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, is because people haven't created the cause for benefiting from the help of these Realized Beings.

If you have a child, it is possible that no one else than you will one day be able to help him/her, because you will be the one having specific connection with him/her.

But "why you!"... May be your child will roam in lover realms for eons, in terrible pain and suffering because no one among the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas community has the karmic connection necessary to help who your child will have become. Same with all people you love dearly.

But "why you!". You will be in peace, away from any suffering for eons and eons, ignoring the cries of all those you could have helped if you wouldn't have been so selfish!

 

You still wonder why you are in such suffering, despite the presence of many Enlightened Beings?

First, because you don't have the right motivation to get Liberated from it, and not to reach Enlightement.

Second, because many persons you had connection with in the past didn't walk the Path to Enlightenement, as they were thinking "why me?"...

 

All the very best, Khestun

You don't truely wish "all the very best" to people, since you don't wish to help them. So, forget that expression for now.

At last, your name is "khetsun", not "khestun"...

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Rinpoche, please is this why we include realised beings, even arhats, in our Tonglen practice because they have not yet created all the causes for a Buddha to help them fully awaken? Is it because we are all - unrealised and realised beings - who are not fully enlightened Buddhas subject to the same laws of karma, are all related in some way karmically for aeons, all have the freewill to be or not to be compassionate and are all still together in duality, and therefore able to help each other?

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