 Posted: Mon 11:46, 23 May 2011 Post subject: jordan 13 retro See You In Eternity |
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| So perhaps you’re not ready to devote the rest of your life to cultivating peaceful and kind virtues, to really love your neighbors (and how you really feel about your neighbors is a good indication w
A young Samurai warrior came across a monk sitting down and asked him, “Monk. Is there a heaven and a hell? If you know the answer, tell me. If you don’t, don’t waste my time!” Have you ever thought about eternity? That‘s longer than a month, a lot longer. If an angel flew up to the top of a solid granite mountain once every hundred years and softly brushed a silk veil across it’s top, the number of years required to wear that mountain down to the ground would be a drop in the bucket compared to eternity. But who would believe such things unless they could see them for themselves. So if you don’t have the time to actually shift your consciousness through the practice of meditation to the point of being able to see into non-material realms, don’t you have time to see the hells you create right here and now on earth? Therefore, the belief that this flash of lightening called life, where usually our only concern is what’s on TV tonight, will determine where we spend our eternity, is a bit scary. And life does go by fast. As a matter of fact, the older you get, the faster it goes. v class="clear"> The monk made eye contact and said, “Samurai! That is hell!” “With that stupid rusty blade? Said the monk. “You couldn’t cut a slice of bread with that!” Then the monk said, “Ah, and that is heaven.” And the samurai understood that the respect, understanding, and compassion he felt was what heaven was like. The monk looked up at him and said,“You’re too stupid to understand!” The samurai drew his sword, incensed by the insult of his immaculate blade, and squinting his eyes with rage he prepared to swing his sword. Yep jordan 13 retro, eternity is a serious prospect, yet we brush it off as not important. Why do we do that? I believe it is because we only trust the transient world of pleasure, simply because we have a direct contact with it. We can relate to the world, but we can’t get our arms around a concept like eternity. So we remain ignorant of it. In other words, we ignore it and figure that when the time comes, we will handle it. One of the most profound visions that come up for some advanced meditators is an actual tour of non-human realms, including the hell realms. That is usually enough for him or her to dedicate the rest of their lives to practice and forget about the very temporary world of pleasure, because they have seen up close and personal the consequences of a careless, self centered existence. The samurai then understood at that moment that the anger he felt was what hell was like. He was so moved that he dropped his sword and his eyes welled up and bowed to the monk saying, “Thank you monk.” The monk replied, “You. A samurai? Don’t be silly, you’re just a country bumpkin!” Oh yeah? I would call that the epitome of conceit, the grand misconception and delusion perpetuated by an entirely false sense of an inflated ego. Consider all the sand on all the beaches in all the worlds of all the universes, and if each grain represented one million years, all the sand of all the beaches in all the worlds in all the universes would not scratch the surface of eternity. The samurai said, “Stupid? I’m a samurai warrior!” “That’s twice you’ve insulted me monk!” Said the warrior as he rested his hand on his sword. “One more insult and I will cut your head off with this sword in half a second!” Do you think that you could go ten rounds with a trained, seasoned heavyweight boxer? Why not? Maybe because that situation is more readily imaginable, and you know your limitations. But you could spend an eternity in hell right? Because you can handle what comes up right? ---(Story from Ajahn Brahm) |
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