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Forwarding from Harsha

 

<<Gloria Lee: But seriously, now..is detachment the equivalent of

indifference?? Believe it or not, I think I did understand your original

point about making vows being redundant, but just the word indifferent

is a puzzle to me...even in relation to just chocolate (there is no such

thing as "just" chocolate..to a true aficionado)... are you going back

to your "don't care" one way or the other?? Are you saying that even

wanting all beings to be free of suffering is ALSO an attachment to some

preference of desire?? Or just that making vows would be unnecessary >>

 

Dear Gloria, you ask such deep and wise questions that I want to flee in

shame! But where to go? I must gather courage and answer all calls of

nature.

Some say the nature of mind is that of attachment. Therefore the practice of

detachment and indifference involves mental effort. As such it does not

reveal

the Truth. Knowing that it is the mind itself that creates the illusion of

bondage and that of liberation, one should be still. The secret Harsha

method

is as follows. If one is attached, it is all right. If one is detached, it

is

all right. If one has taken a Boddhisattva vow it is all right. If one

rejects

all vows it is all right. It is the nature of one who is on the spiritual

path

to have compassion for one self and others. When one is constipated and

takes

a laxative, one does not worry whether the laxative will leave the body or

not. Similarly, one who is cultivating compassion and love for others need

not

worry whether these are attachments that will stick or not. Indeed when one

is

full of love for all sentient beings and all life, that attitude itself

produces the needed deep relaxation which unties the knot of ignorance

leading

to Self-Realization .....Harsha