elephant on the battlefield of life,
one should look up to the endurance
of the elephant as a testimony
of how it is possible to not be offended
by the harsh and arrow like words of others.
Though many are inconsiderate of the Buddha Nature,
those who are warriors of the Dharma
are not weakened by the defects that arise
from negative emotional states.
Trained for excellence in all domains
that requires mindfulness over mindlessness,
the elephant of one's will is what keeps the sadhaka
spiritually fit to take on the sufferings of countless confused minds.
Unlike other well trained beasts of burden
and animal like men of high or low reputation and social standing,
best is he who is mindful of having to be mindful at all costs.
What animals and men alike cannot do
in terms of helping one reach the point of liberated consciousness,
a deeply investigated mind can.
Sleeping too much while awake
and drowsy to Reality,
the downward tendencies of the mind
causes one to be re-born again and again
into the stifling conditions of habitual awareness.
No longer accustomed to an
unrestrained stream of illusory and non-illusory perceptions,
the elephant that is one's mind
pulls oneself out of the mud of laziness
by having confidence in a Buddha's compassionate strength.
Roaming in the forest as a king without a crown,
one's inward elephant makes way
for the pleasantness of the Buddha Nature
to walk through the forest unhampered
by the forces which dominate Samsaric existence.
Being the outward expression
of virtue, faith and joy,
the Dharma in its capacity to liberate consciousness
makes all who traverse one's path upon the battlefield of life
into Accomplished Ones by way of seeing the perfection
and mastery of a self realized control of the self luminous and empty mind.
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