Musing
Buddhism is not a religion but rather a philosophy. It is however a wisdom with an embedded agenda . The goal of Buddhist investigation, as I see it, is merely to awaken the individual to the phenomenon of living. This in turn reveals, naturally, the truth of being. To that end I offer the following recent experience:
While sitting at a favorite tea house, reading and people watching, I became cognizant of the enormous capacity of a child to be happy, totally aware, accepting, present, apparently conscious of all sensory input .... and, in comparison, unlike the surrounding adults. Assuming we all materialize in this world as infants, I can’t help but wonder when and where the change occurred? Each life story is unique but generally the process of ‘maturing’ strips us of our awe and builds, in it’s place, believes that define us.
Allowing for slight variations in time/space geography we all learn proper behavior, what books are acceptable, what to think, when to get married, when to get unmarried, have children, buy a home, how to feel, behave politely, civilized, adult.
This common journey casts each of us far from the given of extraordinary sensory capacity present within our earlier years. The wildly interesting, transmuting, magnetic, charismatic quintessence of life is distilled and experienced as common place. The product of all this is another adult going about his or her adult business, following and being followed by endless lines of similar looking, thinking adults.
I wonder if this needs to be?
I wonder if we as individuals, or as a group, can reclaim the amazement for life we all once possessed?
I wonder if redemption is available even for the most ‘mature’ among us?
-Richard Rudis
About Me
- Richard Rudis
- Richard Rudis, (Karma Sonam Dorje), have studied Eastern philosophy for over thirty years. As an American practitioner of the Vajrayana school of Tibetan Buddhism I am a long time pilgrim of sacred sites and teachings from across Asia. I was granted refuge in the Buddha from His Holiness Gyalwa Karmapa while in Tibet in the year 1996. I have been teaching Buddhist Dharma and conducting ‘Vibrational Sound Healing Workshops’, using traditional Himalayan instruments, since 1988. I am a published writer and lecturer on the subject of vibrational sound healing; as it is reflected within Tibetan Buddhism. As the owner of the ‘Illuminarium’, an internet based sacred art gallery, I represent museum quality Buddhist and Hindu artifacts from Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet, (returning most of the proceeds to the communities in which they were collected with honor). I hold advanced degrees in Fine Arts and English.
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