Fragment Of The Dhammapada

This is only a fragment of one of Buddhas teachings. Updated into language we can understand. in todays terminology. Today we dive deep into the making of a spiritual life and how to one day become a Buddha or a Christ or a Newer form something un-named something new.

Transcript

Hello,

Welcome once again.

My name is Douglas Grumman.

It's nice to be here with you at this time in my life and in your lives.

Today I'm going to talk a little bit about Guatemala Buddha.

I'm reading one of his books,

The Dhammapada,

And I wanted to share some of the insights that I gained from this,

From myself and my understanding and how I've experienced things in my life.

So funny story,

I was carrying the book with me to lunch and I was working on a high-rise construction site wherein I would take my book and carry it down and I had to keep it on the construction site because it was too far to walk to get all the way back to the job site to lunch and everything.

It would just take too long.

Not to mention that it was probably almost 100 degrees outside with a heat index of like 110,

But anyway.

So anyway,

I was carrying my book with me to lunch and I took it back up to the job site and I set it down next to all my tools and stuff like that and I proceeded to work the rest of the day not thinking too much about it.

And then my back started hurting so I sat down on a pail and I opened the book up and I decided to do a little reading while I'm sitting there and resting my back up.

I set the book down and I put my phone on top of the book so I would not forget either one of them.

The chances of me leaving the book could be high,

But not leaving the book in the phone.

So anyway,

At the end of the day,

I was working in the closet all day long and my back was really sore and I got a phone call from my boss and I told my boss,

I'm sorry,

Look,

I finished this closet.

My back's really hurting.

I need to get out of here.

So if you don't mind,

I'm going to go ahead and leave and I did.

With the phone in my hand,

Of course,

I left the book in the other room on the pail,

Not thinking too much about it.

I packed up all my tools and split.

I thought I put the book in my pocket.

I had this thought that I did,

But your mind can deceive you at times.

The next day came,

The next morning came,

And I'm driving to work and I don't see my book anywhere.

And I'm like,

Oh no.

And I couldn't really go back to that job site because I'd finished everything that needed to be finished.

So I had to move on to the next job and I was on my way to that job.

But as luck would have it,

I was able to finish that job within a couple hours and I then drove back by the construction site where I left my book at.

And lo and behold,

It was right where on the pail,

Right where I left it.

So luckily I got it back.

I mean,

There's only been one other book I took to lunch one time on a military base and I set it down and forgot it.

I think I set it on top of a vending machine and forgot it.

And I so regretted that because I love the book.

I was deep into this thing and halfway through the book and I would have been severely upset,

I think,

If I would have lost this one.

I mean,

Life goes on,

Right?

Even if you lose a book,

It's not the end of the world.

You can always order another copy.

But it's the point of the thing that our minds do play tricks on us sometimes.

Because I swore I carried that book down,

But I did not carry that book down.

But anyway,

I'm picking back up.

I picked back up in the book where I left off and I started reading something so beautiful that I felt like it's time for me to make another recording on Insight Timer and share my insight that I gained,

The thoughts that I have as I read these books,

And the knowledge that I'd like to impart on you,

My listeners.

A little bit about Buddha.

One thing that is remarkable and indistinguishable about Buddha's teachings is that he's very scientific.

He's like a logician or almost like a technician,

Like myself,

Just a very technical-minded person.

He didn't use parables and stories to get his point across.

He said things that he meant and put a lot of thought into the things he said and shared things with awareness,

Using awareness and the words of awareness.

Here's a little bit part of the Dhammapada.

Buddha says to us,

The perfume of sandalwood,

Rose bay or jasmine cannot travel against the wind.

Now that's a simple statement.

It doesn't sound very spiritual,

But there's a deeper meaning to his thoughts on conveying the fragrances of something that's materialistic,

Material itself,

Something that you can touch,

Something that has an essence that has a grossness to it.

So there's the law of gravitation,

And the law of gravitation is a law of grossness,

It's a law of material things.

Then there's the law of grace,

The law of levitation.

There are certain things in this life,

When you start meditating,

When you start growing spiritually,

A part of you starts rising in this levitation and it starts growing.

The best way I can describe it is like you are a seed in a certain form.

Before you really start growing spiritually,

You're in the seed form.

Every man's potential is there,

But it's still in seed form.

I know that's a little hard to believe and a little hard to understand,

But we have the potential to have a soul.

Not everybody's born with a soul.

That's George Gurdjieff's teaching,

He's the one that came out and said that not everybody has a soul.

Interesting thoughts.

So Buddha says that with the law of gravitation,

As you get older and you die,

The weight pulls you down,

It pulls your soul down,

And then if you start meditating and you start growing spiritually and start becoming aware of your is-ness,

Then levitation starts to apply.

It goes against the law of gravity.

As things and energy start rising within you,

You become more aware,

You become more caring and more conscious and more understanding.

All these beautiful things start arising out of this levitation.

Then one day the seed breaks and starts making its journey up towards the soil.

This is the journey of everyone's soul,

Too.

Your soul rises and it may take several lifetimes.

You may be a seed over and over and over again until the time comes,

And your time will come.

I believe if you're listening to my tracks now and you follow some of the words I say that it may speed things up,

It may break the seed and make its journey towards the soil and up towards the sunlight.

This is the journey of a Buddha once the plant breaks open and pierces the ground and then becomes a real plant and you become a real soul.

But the journey's not over.

The journey's just beginning because there's so much to learn,

So much to understand,

So much to grow from.

We grow and grow and learn and we take in all that existence has to give us.

It's like this thirst,

This unquenchable that you,

Not just,

I wouldn't say the word desire,

But you want more and you want more and you want to grow more and you want to be bigger and you want to be taller and you want to understand more and you want to comprehend more.

So we grow and we grow.

This is a beautiful growth because you're now defying the laws of gravity and you're reaching towards the skies.

You're growing up like a tall tree towards the skies.

And eventually a point comes where you've grown so much that your vessel can no longer contain everything that you've taken in.

So your cup spills over.

The vessel tips over and at that point you become a flower and a flower has a fragrance to it.

So when you're giving back to existence and you're sharing,

Just as Buddha shared with us and like Osho shared with us and updated Buddha's thoughts into 20th century man,

I am now carrying on this torch,

Sharing this information with you.

And when the flower is alive,

It's the most potent.

The essence can be there from the fragrance,

But it's unlike the perfume of sandalwood or the rosemary or jasmine because a flower's essence can only go so far.

It can't go upwind.

It can't leave the flower for too long.

It's very limited because those apply to the laws of gravity that pull against the flower and the flower's fragrance.

It's just part of existence.

But that's why Buddha shares with us the next section of the Dhammapada.

He says,

But the fragrance of virtue travels even against the wind and as far as the ends of the world.

Buddha says that there is a flowering of your inner being,

Which is far more beautiful than sandalwood,

Rosemary or jasmine.

Its beauty is its absolute freedom,

Freedom to go anywhere,

Even to the end of the world.

And this freedom follows no commandments.

It has no restrictions.

The freedom is boundless.

In our societies,

We have an imaginary rope,

I guess you could call it,

And the rope only lets us go so far.

We can only venture so far before we get pulled on by society or society cuts you down and makes it so that you don't shine anymore.

They try to put the flower out.

And I guess that's the problem with a lot of flowers is that they are fragile.

A Buddha alive is fragile.

A Jesus alive is very fragile.

Even though his teachings can reach to the ends of the world.

And this is what I want to impart on you today in this teaching is that there's a personal growth and there's nothing more powerful than an alive Buddha,

An alive Jesus.

But we're scared to even come near these people when they are alive.

I suppose that it's even scary maybe to approach someone like myself.

I don't know.

I personally feel that it's imperative that there's always an alive flower on this world at all times,

Whether that is an Osho or Buddha or Jesus or a Bodhidharama or a Lao Tzu or a Cheng Tzu or one of these flowers that always existed at all times on this planet.

And my personal thoughts on that are quite astounding,

But I just feel that that person has like a,

It's not a job,

But it's basically the way light works,

The way energy works.

And I think that when souls pass from this life,

If you shared a common bond with that enlightened person,

That flower,

Or if you shared something in common or actually if you knew each other,

Then instantly when you die,

You're drawn to that essence,

To that alive flower.

Because it's through the flower that the secret of passing on,

I guess you'd call it,

Exists.

You pass through that flower.

Even Jesus said it in his teachings that you pass through me to get to the Father.

He literally meant through him.

You had to enter him,

But he didn't know that that teaching is only true while he's alive.

And then when he passes away,

It's the next flower that comes,

Now it's his turn.

So you're carrying the torch of existence,

You're carrying the essence of life,

The essence of Buddha's teachings,

Of Jesus' teachings,

Of Osho's teachings,

And all these masters that have ascended down.

But you can still feel the essence of Buddha in the air.

If you read on Buddha's scriptures,

They just don't have the flair,

The same as if somebody made a commentary on the paragraphs,

Like he says,

But the fragrance of virtue travels even against the wind as far as the ends of the world.

And we wonder,

What did Buddha mean by that?

What Buddha's saying is that these flowers,

These people that have gained so much and then gave back to existence.

And when you recognize the fact that someone might be a Buddha,

Someone might be a flowering,

You can tell by the quantity and quality of what that person gives back to existence.

What they share,

What they comprehend,

And what they want to entail on you and embed into your souls is that this law of gravity only applies to your physical body.

And I'll just take a second to talk to you.

There's a point in our spiritual growth that tilts or changes everything in us.

And we grow and we grow like a plant grows.

And we get to a point where you gain 51% of your energy up into the heart.

And you can call them chakras,

You can call them dimensions,

You can call a heart dimension,

Which is a spiritual dimension,

The fourth dimension.

And the third dimension is the intellectual,

And the second dimension is emotional,

And the first dimension is the physical.

And then of course there's the even grosser dimensions,

Like our vision allows us to see height,

Depth,

And breadth.

But all these dimensions,

All these chakra systems,

Or whatever you call them,

They're defying the laws of gravity.

And each chakra basically,

A chakra itself just means like a wheel,

A little turning wheel.

It's a key to open up a dimension.

The dimension of the physical is something you experience as a human being.

So we grow physically,

We grow emotionally,

We grow intellectually.

And then our spirit is the middle body,

It's the center chakra,

Three above,

Three below.

And I know this,

If you think about it,

That makes up 11 dimensions,

Given that there's three that exist outside of us.

And then Einstein said time was the fourth.

But anyway,

We'll get off subject here.

The thing is that you grow,

And you grow,

And you grow,

And when you get 51% of your energy up into your spiritual body,

Then the eggshell of the ego just snaps,

It breaks,

And you mature past it.

You get to a point where you don't need it anymore,

That you have grown so much that you can't absorb.

I mean,

Of course you can absorb more,

But you have to give back.

You have to release some of the fragrance.

And if you hoard fragrance,

Then it turns stale.

So this is something that can't be hoarded.

This has to be something that's shared.

So that's it.

That's the essence of what I wanted to share with you today was that with the laws of man,

The laws of gravity,

The grotesque laws,

The ones that weigh us down and make us become stressful and distort our reality in so many different ways,

They can't continue to weigh you down if you have a,

Or try to induce a spiritual way about yourself.

If you decide one day that you want to see what's out there,

The unknown,

And the unknown is very scary.

That's why a lot of people don't even start meditating,

Because it's scary,

Because you're embracing the abyss.

You're embracing the unknown.

While Buddha was alive,

Some 10,

000 people were enlightened just by getting close to him.

And when Jesus was alive,

He drew many followers and many people felt something from him.

And maybe they don't call it enlightenment,

But maybe they were all born again when they got close to Jesus's essence.

While Osho was alive,

Some 20,

000,

30,

000 people became enlightened underneath him.

Kind of hard to believe,

But this is reality.

This is what happens when the flower continues on.

And it continues on through all these masters,

And I try to continue on the tradition by sharing and giving back to you.

And I thank you so much for taking the time to sit down and listen to this talk,

And hope that you will raise the energy up through your chakra systems,

And be courageous enough to let the ego go,

And dive into all the teachings and all the knowledge that you can gain yourself,

And one day you'll explode yourselves,

And then you can share all this stuff.

But don't be a flower that hasn't bloomed,

And keep hoarding and keep hoarding and never bloom yourself.

This essence of a flower doesn't last long.

It's only on the planet for a very short time.

So take that in mind,

And listen to as much as my words and my talks that you can.

Listen to Osho,

Listen to Buddha,

Listen to Jesus,

Listen to Bodhidharma,

And Tamo,

And all the other great mystical artists out there that have made this journey from seed to flower.

But anyway,

Thank you for joining me.

It's been a pleasure talking with you,

And I hope you guys are taking care of yourselves.

I guess before I close out,

I'll share a little bit about what's going on in my life.

I did start my own little business selling clothes online,

And it's taking off.

It's not making me money yet,

But it's taking off because it's something I wanted to give back to the world,

Something I wanted to share,

The love.

Now I'm able to do that through this clothing line that I started,

But anyway,

That's what's going on with me right now.

I'm busy.

I call it my side hustle.

I got my little side hustle going on,

And I always try not to take too long between breaks making recordings on Insight Timer and sharing my thoughts and my feelings with everybody.

But anyway,

Yeah,

So life is good.

Still surfing.

Still having a good time.

Everything's fine in my world,

But that's it.

Y'all take care of yourselves.

Much love and aloha and namaste to all my spiritual friends and blue skies to all my skydiving friends.

Take care of yourselves.

Bye-bye.