Ultimately Perfect by Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa

Author:Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Conduct of Life, Dharma (Buddhism)
Publisher: Palpung Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal Publications
Published: 2010-04-28T03:00:00+00:00

Questions

Question: Something is bothering me that I wanted to share. A few years back we had an incident five hundred meters from where we are sitting today, where a man used to lure children.

Rinpoche: Yes, I saw that on television.

Same Student: A serial killer killed thirty children. A few days back somebody asked “Suppose this man needed a defence lawyer, would you work for him?” My first most spontaneous thought was “Of course I would do it.” I am convinced that he has done this, the evidence is against him. But my first thought was if he pays my fee I’ll do it, but when I said that my wife said “I think you need to move into a different bedroom,” and my children said “Dad, we will not talk to you again if you do this.” I didn’t have the case of course, I didn’t do it. The point is that I was still in that conversation when I made this request for you to teach this subject. So it has been very, very valuable for me listening to you here, and I just wanted to open up what really was occurring to me when I made this request for you to teach this subject. So thank you.

Rinpoche: I would like to say something about this. I would rather have you as his lawyer than someone else. Why? Because you know he has done it so you will make sure that it will be proven in court that he has done it. If you were his lawyer, be his lawyer with conscience, with principle, with responsibility, that instead of just blah, blah, blah, here a picture, there a picture, here a photo, there a photo, here complaints, there complaints. So prove it, that surely he has done what he has done. Therefore I would rather have you as his lawyer than somebody else who would try to prove that he hasn’t done it; then if the lawyer was good maybe he will get away.

Same Student: Quite possible.

Rinpoche: It’s possible. That way I would rather have you as his lawyer, but I’m not saying that you should take the job. And you shouldn’t think that you will do it because he will pay you, no. But you do it because he is wrong and you want to make sure that in court he will be proven wrong, point by point. Then all the people who lost their children will get justice, and all the children who have died, everybody will know how they died so they can pray for them. Because sometimes you might not know if they are dead or not—in a picture it says they are dead, but how can one be 100% sure? Somebody can have my picture and say I’m dead and after ten years I might show up. This I’m sure is not like that but somehow this world is a very strange world today. Because of everyone’s karma definitely, otherwise it would not be like this.

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