Today, through the kindness of Geshe La, I was able to listen to Modern Buddhism in the car. I have often reflected on the teaching that all living beings are our kind mothers and I try and hold on to this thought when I am with others. Today this teaching took on a whole new meaning to me, that happens often with Geshe Las teachings, you think you have got it but over time new profounder layers are revealed. My attention was caught by the concept that even after our mother dies we still consider her to be our mother, and we would still wish her every happiness. I realised that of course this is true and, as always, was filled with profound sadness at the thought of the time when my mother will die. I thought about how I would be praying with all my heart that she would go on to somewhere beautiful, and that wherever she went she would be met with kindness and her heart filled with happiness. Then I thought that in previous lives I must have wished and prayed for the same for my mother of that life. Suddenly the full meaning of rebirth hit me, that I was meeting over and over again my mother from previous lives, who, at the time of her death, I had desperately wished would be met with kindness and happiness in her next life. That I now have the opportunity to offer the kindness and happiness I would have wanted my mother to receive after her death to the living being she has become in this life:The old lady cycling past me in the rain, the puppy tugging at the lead, the man pushing the trollies, were once the very person that I would have longed to have kept with me and cherished. I have that opportunity now to cherish her, in everyone I see, to treat all my kind mothers in the way I would so desperately have hoped they would be treated in their next life. It feels like an overwhelming responsibility on one level but how wonderful that I have this precious opportunity to meet and cherish all my kind mothers once again. How kind Geshe La is to explain this to me
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:14:01 +0000
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