Regarding yesterday's post, I have a couple of comments and clarifications.
The upgrading analogy refers to situations like on an airplane: You completely leave behind your coach seat and move up to first class. (You don't hold onto your old seat. Everything is better in first class - you have no interest in coach.) I wanted to clarify that, because I think sometimes when you upgrade software, the program may make use of some of your current version and then add stuff. We tend to do something like that when we're first learning how to self-generate.
Richard pointed out that Heruka is the Tantric Buddha of compassion, so you're imputing yourself on a completely pure being who's perfected exchanging self with others - he has only cherishing for others.
In Eight Steps to Happiness Geshe-la says "'Self' and 'other' are relative terms, rather like 'this mountain' and 'that mountain ... 'This' and 'that' therefore depend upon our point of reference. This is also true of self and other. By climbing down the mountain of self, it is possible to ascend the mountain of other, and thereby cherish others as much as we presently cherish ourself."
Sunday, January 29, 2012
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