Being spiritual means that you need to know about yourself, so you will know everything, including the whole universe. The secret is that "not knowing is the entire knowing", this is the so-called Universal Understanding. Otherwise how can a person understand whole universe at the same time while being just one human being, which is logically impossible, but it is actually possible, because there is a secret. This is the highlighted quality of a Buddha, which means the Great Enlightenment. This is what I have been learning from my gurus' teachings and this is what keeps me up surviving in this world and the world of next life and lives to come. In this sense, I have become immortal because of this understanding.
You guys will know what I am talking about if you have a little understanding. I usually do not like to take photos with any of my gurus, because I don't know what to do with the photos after that. If I put them on the shrine, with myself being there in the photos, I feel very awkward to see myself on my own shrine, and prostrate to myself. If I put them in the bed or side table, it is not respecting my gurus. More importantly, I feel very awkward because my gurus are there. I don't want them to be staring at me while I am sleeping and snoring and what not. Sometimes, I am very tempted to cut myself out of these photos and separate myself from the gurus, but I don't like that idea either, because we have a very strong wish and also have been praying that gurus should not be separated from us forever. And here I am cutting out myself, I feel this is again very awkward and uncomfortable. My conservative concept of photos printed on papers, as we did in those old days, has made me quite fanatic about this sort of things. I even forgot that there is such thing called "Digital Camera" where photos do not need to be printed out. This is the digital world, so now I can share with you in the digital world, and this is fantastic for the environment, because less trees are being cut and less garbages are created. Up until today, I was very fanatic about photos being printed on papers, now I can change my concept tonight since I realise that I don't have to print out the photos and worry about putting them up on the shrine or down on the floor, or in or out of my bedrooms. This is digital Dzogpa Chenpo. Isn't this great?
By the way, this photo was taken just recently after I returned from Pad Yatra. My GURU was so interested in my journey. The minute I entered into his room, the first thing he said, "How was your walking? How high did you go? Did you have any difficulties? Did you have any device to check the altitude? What did you practise during the walking? Did you chant the mantras with melodies or did you just recite them? What was the purpose of this journey? We should take photo together." From that, we talked about many things. Therefore I am sharing this special and fresh holy moment that I value very much.
