So What is Behind Your Fits?

Khenpo Sonam is here giving teachings on Patrul Rinpoche’s Chod Jug Gom Rim, a step by step manual on practice for the Way of the Bodhisattva.

Tuesday evening Khenpo Sonam told us the story of a Tibetan logger and his son. It seems that every morning, Tashi use to go up in the local mountain and cut down some trees and bring them back home. Unfortunately, one day he carelessly got in the way of a falling tree. The tree hit him and he died up in the forest.

Tsering, his son, depended on his father and was very concerned when he failed to return that afternoon. He went up in the mountain to look for his father only to find him dead under a tree. Tsering was very sad, but he was also very angry. He became very very angry at the tree.

The anger grew to becoming angry at all the trees. So from then on, whenever and wherever, he saw a tree he would become very angry. You can imagine that he spend a large portion of his life being angry.

Like Tsering, we all have things that give rise to anger and negative thinking. Whether these things are people, situations, or trees; they are all just as ridiculous.

Many Dharma Blessings,

Geoff