Leave the house

In a certain way, Nagarjuna succeeded, in the 13th century, the patriarchs through the back door: through a feeling of humility, …
and not by the display of the powerful powers that he had already acquired at the time of the meeting with Kamipola.

“Just decide to leave the house. Why start wondering about whether I am a wise man or whether I am not a wise man, he says to him, when he meets them and asks “who is this one comes like this to visit the wise person?” ?

Or, in order :

-“Who is the one who comes to visit the wise person like this”?
-“Just decide to leave the house. Why asking whether or not I am a wise man ?”

Thus revealed by Kamipala, Nagarjuna repented. It seems that it is this expression of a feeling of smallness that opens the way to true awakening.
This gives rise to an in-depth exchange between the two men and not to some grotesque rhetorical escalations, here pointed out as “external ways” in which the two protagonists excelled, without a doubt.
Then, an egoic deflation takes place, a heart to heart, real, simple. The one Kamipala calls to “leave the house”, The translator’s footnotes provide information on the meaning given to this injunction: “become a monk”.

Without moving away from this explanation, it is possible to propose other harmonics with more Christ-like tones:

-“Follow me”, “leave the house and follow me”,
“let go of everything, now, choose the path of simplicity that I offer you.”
“The occult practices, complicated methods, the austere or trending books, the armies of concepts in battle.Leave everything here, on the doorstep,The in between, where you stand,Choose the path of simplicity,
And follow me.”

(Inspired by a text shared by Pierre Turlur)

Franck – September 2023
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