Walk in my shoes

We have a buddhist sangha, I am part of that sangha and we share common wisdom. Although we share common wisdom and believes everyone is individual and everyone has his own perspective and his own background. Some might come into a sangha with christian background, some have hindu background, others followed no other religion before. You really recognize this whenever you touch a topic within the sangha that belongs to another religion. Whenever that happens I invite people to walk in my shoes. They can walk the first 100 meters, some might even walk 200 meters in my shoes but chances are very low that somebody can walk a mile in my shoes. This is because my engagement with all of the topics along the path to walk in my shoes was rich and meaningful. To fully understand it somebody has to meditate about the topics, do a lot of reading of all different kinds of scriptures and books and find his own conclusion regarding religions, mindset, models of consciousness and how to see the crucifixion of Jesus for example. I already met people who said after 200 meters in my shoes they cannot follow and I fully understand it. I had the same problems and it needs time, it also always is a personal experience that is equally important to the scriptures. In addition not all of my experience is necessarily important for you.

Guru Yoga adds to the views of the scriptures the personal relationship to a guru. The sangha shares the common guru yoga practices with deep engagement too.

A guru wants you to stay focused on the path because it is more effective to drill down to the deep understanding on one place than to surf over all different kinds of scriptures and options provided from all the richness on this earth. We can clearly see this richness in our WhatsApp groups and on Facebook. So every time I contribute to a topic my contribution will be with my rich background and equally important with the view that every individual has his own individual truth. We have an absolute truth and at the same time we have an individual truth and many perspectives that ultimately point to the moon. If we follow light consciousness we all point to the moon but every finger is different. From an integral consciousness I know that the post-modern approach to have all the perspectives at once shows the big picture but when you want to achieve a goal having too many perspectives causes us to stay where we are and we won’t get further in our efforts, we are blocked in our experience. Therefore we deliberately reduce the perspectives to those that are helpful to achieve the goal. As long as you do not follow a certain guru with guru yoga your choice of perspectives is different. In our sangha we share at least one common perspective of the lama while some might have additional perspectives that stay with them along the way.

We already learned about the importance of devotion. Although I have a rich background I feel that it is absolutely right to show devotion to the content of the e-book of sihing Marco because that focuses the choice of perspectives to get us going. So walking in my shoes means to recognize that my finger always points towards the e-book of sihing Marco. I already pointed to many different books that show the richness of my background and what I have learned along my way but I think the right approach is to increase the focus on the scripture of that e-book. It will be more focus, less confusion and the devotion for success along the path of karma yoga in the sign of the lion. May this devotion result in success and healing to all of us. May we all find the path to satchitananda or already be there.

My personal practice nevertheless will stay on the path of guru yoga with lama Ole Nydahl. The karma yoga with sihing Marco enriches the experience with altruistic deeds which is the path that lama Ole Nydahl wants us to follow.