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Discourse 11
The Very Nature of Things
The Very Nature of Things
26 December 1987 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
IS ENLIGHTENMENT BEYOND THE NATURE OF THINGS?
Milarepa, enlightenment is the very nature of things. But it has never
been said that way; on the contrary, people’s minds have been
corrupted by creating a goal against nature, giving it beautiful
names, ”supernature.” And man was caught in this because of a
very simple reason:
The nature of things is already where you are.
It is not an excitement and it is not a challenge and it does not call on
you to prove your ego. It is not a faraway star. Mind wants for its
nourishment something very difficult, something almost
impossible. Only if you can achieve the impossible can you feel you
are somebody special.
Enlightenment is not a talent. It is not like somebody being born a
painter or a poet or a scientist – those are talents. Enlightenment is
simply everybody’s very source of life. You have not even to go
out of your house to look for it. To go out of your house to look for it,
you have missed it, and nobody knows when you will be able to
come back home....
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
IS ENLIGHTENMENT BEYOND THE NATURE OF THINGS?
Milarepa, enlightenment is the very nature of things. But it has never
been said that way; on the contrary, people’s minds have been
corrupted by creating a goal against nature, giving it beautiful
names, ”supernature.” And man was caught in this because of a
very simple reason:
The nature of things is already where you are.
It is not an excitement and it is not a challenge and it does not call on
you to prove your ego. It is not a faraway star. Mind wants for its
nourishment something very difficult, something almost
impossible. Only if you can achieve the impossible can you feel you
are somebody special.
Enlightenment is not a talent. It is not like somebody being born a
painter or a poet or a scientist – those are talents. Enlightenment is
simply everybody’s very source of life. You have not even to go
out of your house to look for it. To go out of your house to look for it,
you have missed it, and nobody knows when you will be able to
come back home....
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