TAKING A DUMP
In a sense everything is dreamlike and
illusionary, but even so, humorously you go on doing things. For example, if
you are walking, without unnecessary solemnity or self-consciousness,
lightheartedly walk toward the open space of truth. As you eat, feed your
negativities and illusions into the belly of emptiness, dissolving them into
all-pervading space. And when you go to the toilet, consider all your
obscurations and blockages are being cleansed and washed away.
Dudjom Rinpoche
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Why shirk at something as natural and universal as the
simple act of taking a dump? Isn’t it a judgment call to think the act of
elimination is beneath me (pun intended) when I am spending time on the toilet? I believe it
was either Kurt Vonnegut or Günter Grass that noted in one of their novels primitive societies (we spent a couple million years as hunter/gatherers)
people ate alone and dumped together. They were able to tell from their stools
who was healthy, who was ailing and so on. If this is true then it was so-called
civilization that gave us a prejudice against damned near every natural
function of our bodies from the neck down. Most societies world-wide condemned
our sexuality, and prohibitions against any form of it beyond the so-called missionary
position, body odors (good clean sweat) and even the feeding of an infant from
a mother’s breast became taboo… something to be done in private as though they
are functions of shame. Dudjom Rinpoche puts it in proper perspective when he
says that taking a dump is a function of elimination of toxins from our
physical bodies and a metaphor for a spiritual dumping. A healthy attitude
about my body, my spirit becomes part and parcel of my spiritual awareness when
I look at these objectively.
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