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Poem About Sickness
by Jigme
Lingpa
Sicknesses are the brooms sweeping your evil deeds.
Seeing the sicknesses as the teachers, pray to them.
Sicknesses are coming to you by the kindness of the masters and the
Three Jewels.
Sicknesses are your accomplishments, so worship them as the deities.
Sicknesses are the signs that your bad karmas are being exhausted.
Do not look at the face of your sickness, but at the one (the mind) who
is sick.
Do not place the sicknesses on your mind, but place your naked
intrinsic awareness upon your sickness.
This is the instruction on sickness arising as the Dharmakaya.
The body is inanimate and mind is emptiness.
What can cause pain to an inanimate thing or harm to the emptiness?
Search for where the sicknesses are coming from, where they go, and
where they dwell.
Sicknesses are mere sudden projections of your thoughts.
When those thoughts disappear, the sicknesses dissolve too.
There is not better fuel (than sicknesses) to burn off the bad karmas.
Don't get into entertaining a sad mind or negative views (over the
sicknesses),
But see them as the signs of the waning of your bad karmas, and rejoice
over them.
This poem
comes from Masters of
Meditation and Miracles, p. 126,
translated by Tulku Thondup |
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