I am thankful to all the Reiki friends that I have met online and than offine as well. I have and still learning so much from all of you and for that I thank International House of Reiki for bringing together so many kind and compassionate souls together globally. Thank you all !! This is what I call Sangha Sangha From “Heart of the Buddha”, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche pp.99-100 The sangha is the community of people who have the perfect right to cut through your trips and feed you with their wisdom, as well as the perfect right to demonstrate their own neurosis and be seen through by you. The companionship within the sangha is a kind of clean friendship – without expectation, without demand, but at the same time, fulfilling. The sangha are a source of learning as much as the spiritual friend or teacher. So there is a need for some trust in the sangha. But we have to make a very definite point here, we are speaking of the organized sangha, which is the sangha of practitioners who actually sit together, practice together, and also work on themselves. Without that sangha, we have no reference point, we are thrown back into the big samsaric soup, and we have no idea who or what we are. We are lost. So we no longer regard ourselves as lone wolves who have such a good thing going on the side that we don’t have to relate with anybody at all, whether the organization, the sitting practice, or the sangha at large. At the same time we must not simply go along with the crowd. Either extreme is too secure. The idea is one of constantly opening, giving up completely, there is a lot of need for giving up. …The sangha is made up of thousands of people who are alone together, working together with their own loneliness, their own aloneness. Together they make an orchestra, you are able to dance with its music, and that is a very personal experience. You begin to join that particular energy, which allows individuality and spontaneity as well as non-aggression.
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 08:18:31 +0000
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