View and Conduct
“Padmasambhava
said: ‘Though the view should be as vast as the sky, keep your conduct
as fine as barley flour.’ Don’t confuse one with the other. When
training in the view, you can be as unbiased, as impartial, as vast,
immense, and unlimited as the sky. Your behaviour, on the other hand,
should be as careful as possible in discriminating what is beneficial or
harmful, what is good or evil. One can combine the view and conduct,
but don’t mix them or lose one in the other. That is very important.
‘View
like the sky’ means that nothing is held onto in any way whatsoever.
You are not stuck anywhere at all. In other words, there is no
discrimination as to what to accept and what to reject; no line is drawn
separating one thing from another. ‘Conduct as fine as barley flour’
means that there is good and evil, and one needs to differentiate
between the two. Give up negative deeds; practice the Dharma. In your
behaviour, in your conduct, it is necessary to accept and reject.”
~Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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