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Jika Buddha Sakyamuni masih hidup saat ini, beliau mungkin tidak suka melihat kita, para pengikutnya, terpecah belah menjadi beberapa kelompok, yang kemudian mengarah pada sektarianisme dan konflik. Di negara tempatku dilahirkan, aku penasaran apakah orang-orang menganggap ajaran Buddha Thailand sebagai Buddhadharma yang otentik. Aku yakin mereka menganggap Buddhisme Thailand lebih rendah, sedangkan Buddhisme mereka adalah yang tertinggi. Di negara tempatku dilahirkan, aku rasa orang tidak tahu bahwa Cina punya silsilah agama Buddha terpanjang kedua, setelah India. Cina menjadi wadah dan pelindung Buddhisme selama berabad-abad, namun di negara tempatku dilahirkan, Cina identik dengan Mao Tse-tung.<\/p>\n
Aku lahir di negara ini dalam kelompok yang kuat. Ayahku berasal dari kelompok Nyingmapa dan ibuku berasal dari kelompok Kagyupa. Tapi kebetulan karma punya rencana lain untukku. Aku sudah lama merasa bahwa aku adalah orang Khon, yang merupakan kelompok yang lain lagi, keluarga Sakya.<\/p>\n
Sebagian orang mungkin berpikir bahwa aku terhubung erat dengan kelompok Sakya karena aku dianggap salah satu tulku dari biara Dzongsar, yang akhirnya menjadi biara Sakya. Tapi tidak demikian. Aku tertarik karena keturunan Khon ini. Selain itu, aku suka kata “Khon.” Sangat atraktif bagiku, terutama karena kata Khon punya konotasi “dendam”. Konon dikisahkan keluarga Khon muncul dari medan pertempuran setelah perang antara makhluk surgawi dan setan raksasa. Tutor yang menemaniku dalam kunjungan pertamaku ke keluarga Khon memuji mereka, mengatakan bahwa mereka adalah makhluk surgawi yang tersesat. Sebagian keluarga Khon, tidak pernah menutup mata ketika mereka tidur, yang ternyata adalah efek turunan silsilah surgawi ini.<\/p>\n
Keluarga Khon mempunyai ciri khas lain\u2014warna kulit, postur tubuh khas, cara mereka memakai anting-anting dan membelah rambut di tengah, terkadang mengepangnya dengan tali warna-warni dan melilitkannya di sekitar ubun-ubun kepala. Ini sangat klasik. Aku ragu ada perubahan dalam perilaku dan perwujudan keturunan ini sejak zaman Raja Trisong Deutsen.<\/p>\n
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Kenangan pertamaku tentang Kyabje Sakya Trizin ke-41 terjadi di Dehradun ketika aku berusia sekitar sembilan atau sepuluh tahun dan harusnya saat itu beliau berusia dua puluhan. Kyabje Sakya Trizin, seperti yang kuceritakan di episode sebelumnya, adalah orang yang mengenaliku sebagai seorang tulku. Di kemudian hari aku belajar di Sakya College, yang beliau dirikan di tahun 1972, dan aku beruntung menerima banyak inisiasi tantra dari beliau. Pertama kali kami bertemu, Kyabje Sakya Trizin sedang duduk di kuil (yang sebenarnya hanya sebuah tenda terpal) dengan lampu redup di Center Sakya, satu-satunya yang berpakaian putih di antara semua jubah merah marun. Aku tidak bisa memastikan apakah sosok di atas takhta itu laki-laki atau perempuan. Aku memiliki semacam penerimaan yang murni dan polos bahwa beliau bisa menjadi keduanya. Aku berharap aku masih bisa memiliki kepolosan itu. Sayangnya, aku telah tumbuh meninggalkan masa kanak-kanakku dan hanya dapat melihatnya sebagai seorang lelaki, meskipun aku beraspirasi untuk melihatnya lebih dari itu. Beliau duduk di singgasana dan memberikan inisiasi dan aku terpesona dengan cara khas beliau memainkan damaru dengan sedikit putaran. Belakangan aku mencoba meniru cara elegan ini.<\/p>\n
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Ketertarikan dan kekagumanku terhadap penampilan Khon dan keseluruhan fenomena ngakpa[1] tidak surut. Terlahir di keluarga yogi, penampilan seorang yogi bukanlah hal baru bagiku. Namun kehadiran Kyabje Sakya Trizin yang tak bernoda, sempurna, agung, anggun, dan juga Minling Trichen ke-11, kentara sekali di antara semua yogi lain yang tumbuh dewasa bersamaku. Ini mungkin karena Sakya Trizin dan Minling Trichen adalah dua ngakpa yogi terakhir, yang DNA-nya dapat ditelusuri kembali hingga ke zaman Guru Rinpoche. Ketika aku membaca kisah tentang Guru Rinpoche dan Raja Trisong Deutsen bersama rombongan yoginya dan membayangkan mereka di Biara Samye, aku dapat menggunakan Sakya Trizin dan Minling Trichen sebagai referensi. Lalu saya tidak punya masalah dalam membayangkan seperti apa sosok para yogi di masa itu.<\/p>\n
Kyabje Sakya Trizin bukan hanya seorang guru yang hebat, beliau juga tuan rumah yang ramah dan bersahabat yang selalu membuat tamu merasa seperti di rumah sendiri. Ketika aku beranjak dewasa, aku menghabiskan banyak waktu di rumah Kyabje Sakya Trizin. Beliau akan mendesak agar kami makan siang dan makan malam bersama dan beliau duduk di kursi, atau terkadang di singgasana kecil, dengan anggota keluarga duduk di sekelilingnya. Para pelayan akan membawakan makanan satu per satu. Sebagian pelayan berasal dari Tsang dan memiliki aura elegan. Mereka santun, sopan, halus, dan sangat jeli, seperti kepala pelayan keluarga kerajaan. Beliau punya salah satu juru masak terbaik, dengan masakan andalan momo dan roti amdo yang berongga. Aku berusaha belajar dari orang ini, dan dari dialah aku mengenal fenomena baking powder.<\/p>\n
Aku punya jasa kebajikan untuk bertemu dengan bibi Kyabje Sakya Trizin, yang memberiku rasa memiliki. Di antara praktik harianku, aku banyak berdoa ala\u00a0 Nyingmapa, dan setiap kali aku menghabiskan waktu bersama kelompok Sakyapa, aku merasa canggung. Tetapi ketika aku mendengar bibi Beliau melakukan doa Nyingmapa yang serupa meskipun dia seorang Khon, seorang Sakya, hal itu membuatku merasa lebih baik. Dia memberiku semacam pengukuhan dan dorongan, dan doa-doanya menunjukkan bahwa generasi terdahulu tidaklah terlalu terpengaruh oleh kelompok atau aliran.<\/p>\n
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Salah satu kenangan terindah tentang Kyabje Sakya Trizin adalah ketika beliau berjalan-jalan denganku dan pelayan lainnya menyusuri jalan utama Dehradun, Astley Hall, dan beliau memesan teh dari sebuah kedai teh. Tampaknya sangat biasa. Beliau selalu penasaran untuk mengetahui segala macam hal. Bahkan hingga sekarang ketika kami berbincang-bincang, obrolan kami selalu mencakup semua hal, beliau sungguh sangat ingin tahu. Dari sekian banyak guru besar yang kukenal\u2014seperti Karmapa ke-16 dan Dudjom Rinpoche\u2014Kyabje Sakya Trizin adalah salah satu yang selalu mengikuti perkembangan zaman, membaca koran dan majalah. Aku ingat lama sekali, setiap minggu majalah Newsweek dikirim ke rumahnya, beliau berlangganan ketika konsep langganan belum dikenal.<\/p>\n
Meski begitu penasaran dengan dunia biasa, beliau juga memiliki kualitas dunia lain. Kita hidup di jaman di mana pemikiran rasional dan logika dijunjung tinggi, namun bukankah kita hanya berpura-pura kalau kita ingin semua menjadi logis? Karena ketika sesuatu yang ajaib terjadi, ada bagian dari diri kita yang bahagia.<\/p>\n
Logika belum tentu merupakan cara berada yang alami; kita harus belajar bersikap skeptis terhadap cara ajaib. Namun, kita bangga bersikap skeptis. Karena skeptisisme tersebut, keajaiban dan kekuatan berkah tidak dapat dipahami oleh pikiran rasional kita yang sempit. Bagi mereka yang sangat beruntung dan mencoba melampaui batasan rasional, Kyabje Sakya Trizin mewujudkan keajaiban dan berkah tersebut. Oleh karena itu, keberadaan Beliau sangat penting. Jika Anda terlalu logis, Anda akan terjebak dalam zona yang berputar-putar seperti kucing dengan daging diikat di ekornya. Pikiran logis adalah tali kekang yang membuat Anda tetap berada di zona itu, tidak mampu keluar.<\/p>\n
Aku mengenal Kyabje Sakya Trizin ketika Beliau masih muda dan belum menikah, dan itupun tidak ada keraguan bahwa Beliau adalah sosok istimewa. Ada begitu banyak harapan baginya untuk meneruskan garis silsilah, dan harapan baginya untuk menjadi memiliki anak-anak. Aku mengenal calon istrinya, Dangmo Gyalung Chenmo, sebelum mereka bertemu dan menikah. Ia berasal dari keluarga Hochotsang, putri seorang dokter bangsawan yang sangat dihormati, dianggap sebagai salah satu yang terbaik di Derge. Hocho Anjam juga seorang ahli kaligrafi yang hebat. Ia, seperti seluruh keluarga Hochotsang, sangat berbakti pada Khyentse Ch\u00f6kyi Lodr\u00f6, dan aku yakin alasan dia memutuskan untuk tinggal di pengasingan di Sikkim adalah karena Khyentse Ch\u00f6kyi Lodr\u00f6 telah pindah ke Gangtok.<\/p>\n
Gyalung Chenmo sering datang ke Gangtok Khyentse Labrang, tempatku tinggal, untuk memanggang jali-jali dan melakukan pekerjaan rumah lainnya. Kami memperlakukannya seperti orang biasa lainnya. Tahun-tahun berlalu dan ia menjadi pasangan Kyabje Sakya Trizin, lalu Ratna Vajra Rinpoche lahir, kemudian Gyana Vajra lahir, dan kini mereka berdua memiliki anak masing-masing, cucu Kyabje Sakya Trizin.<\/p>\n
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Kyabje Sakya Trizin bersama saudara perempuannya, Jetsun Kushokla, kedua putranya, Yang Mulia Sakya Trizin Ratna Vajra Rinpoche ke-42 dan Dungse Gyana Vajra Rinpoche, serta cucunya Jetsunma.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n Baru-baru ini Beliau melakukan sesuatu yang begitu revolusioner dan visioner dengan menyerahkan tahta Sakya kepada generasi berikutnya, kepada putranya dan salah satu pewaris silsilah Sakya, Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, Sakya Trizin ke-42.<\/p>\n Ketika aku memikirkan kehidupanku sebagai seorang manusia, telah hidup selama setengah abad di masa yang tiada tandingannya\u2014ketika terdapat lebih dari 1.800 senjata nuklir dalam keadaan siaga tinggi, ketika es di laut Arktik mencair, dan begitu banyak orang yang kelaparan dan berperang\u2014dan ketika aku berpikir bahwa aku telah berbagi waktu di dunia ini dengan makhluk seperti Kyabje Sakya Trizin, tidak hanya satu atau dua momen saja, namun mengenalnya melalui berbagai tahapan kehidupannya, aku menganggap diriku sangat beruntung.<\/p>\n [1] Seorang praktisi awam, seorang yogi.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″ width=”100%”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] Jika Buddha Sakyamuni masih hidup saat ini, beliau mungkin tidak suka melihat kita, para pengikutnya, terpecah belah menjadi beberapa kelompok, yang kemudian mengarah pada sektarianisme dan konflik. Di negara tempatku […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"If Shakya Buddha were still alive today, he probably wouldn't be too impressed that we, his followers, have vigorously divided into cliques, which has lead to sectarianism and conflicts. In the country where I was born, I wonder if the people even consider what Thai Buddhists teach as authentic Buddhadharma. For sure they consider Thai Buddhism to be\u00a0a lower Buddhism, whereas their Buddhism is the highest. In the country where I was born, I don't think people know that China has the second longest lineage of Buddhism, after India. China has been a vessel and patron of Buddhism for centuries, but in the country where I was born, China is synonymous with Mao Tse-tung.\r\n\r\nI was born in that country into a strong clique. My father comes from the Nyingmapa clique and my mother comes from the Kagyupa clique. But it so happens that karma had something else in store for me. I have long had the feeling that I am the subject of the Khon,<\/em> which is another clique altogether, the family of the Sakyas.\r\n\r\nSome might think that I have this affinity with the Sakyas because I'm supposedly one of the tulkus of Dzongsar monastery, which eventually became a Sakya monastery. But it is not. It's because of this breed of Khon. Also, I just like the word \"Khon.\" It's very attractive to me, not least because it has the connotation of \"grudge.\" The Khon family is said to have emerged from the battleground after a war between heavenly beings and the rakshasa demons. The tutor who accompanied me on my first visit\u00a0to the Khon family\u00a0raved about them, saying that they were heavenly beings who had gone astray. Some of the Khon family, when they sleep, never close their eyes, which is a residue of this heavenly pedigree.\r\n\r\nThe Khons have other distinguishing features\u2014the color of their skin, their particular posture, the way they wear earrings and part their hair down the middle, sometimes braiding it with colorful strings and wrapping it around the crown of their head. It's so classic. I doubt that anything has changed about the way this breed has behaved and manifested since the time of King Trisong Deutsen.\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/365.jpg\")
<\/p>\n\r\n\r\nMy first memory of the 41st Kyabje Sakya Trizin was in Dehradun when I was about nine or ten years old and he must have been in his twenties. Kyabje Sakya Trizin, as I mentioned in a previous episode<\/a>, was the one who recognized me as a tulku. Later I studied at Sakya College, which he established in 1972, and I have been fortunate to receive many tantric initiations from him. The first time we met, Kyabje Sakya Trizin was sitting in Sakya Center's dimly lit temple of (which was actually just a tarpaulin tent), the only white-clad being among all those maroon robes. I couldn't make out whether this figure on the throne was male or female. I had a pure, innocent acceptance that he could be both. I wish I could still have that innocence. Alas, I have grown out of my childhood and can only perceive him as a man, although I aspire\u00a0to see him beyond that. He sat on the throne and gave initiations and I was mesmerized by the distinct way he beat the damaru with a slight rotation. Later I tried to imitate his elegant ways.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMy fascination and admiration for the Khon look and the whole ngakpa[1]<\/a> phenomenon has not subsided. Being born in a yogi family myself, the sight of a yogi was nothing new to me. But the stainless, immaculate, majestic, elegant presence of Kyabje Sakya Trizin, and also of the 11th Minling Trichen, stands out from all the other yogis I had grown up with. This could be because Sakya Trizin and Minling Trichen are two of the last remaining yogi ngakpas, whose DNA can be traced back to Guru Rinpoche\u2019s time. When I read the stories of Guru Rinpoche and King Trisong Deutsen with their entourage of yogis and imagine them in Samye Monastery, I can use Sakya Trizin and Minling Trichen as a reference. Then I have no problem visualizing what those guys must have been like.\r\n\r\nKyabje Sakya Trizin is not only a great master, he is a welcoming and gracious host who always creates a sense of home. When I was growing up, I spent a lot of time in Kyabje Sakya Trizin's household. He would insist that we have lunch and dinner together and would sit on a chair, or sometimes on a small throne, with the rest of the family sitting around him. The attendants would bring the food in one by one. Some of his attendants were originally from Tsang and had an air of elegance. They were courteous, polite, and subtle, and very observant, like the butlers of a royal family. He had one of the best cooks, whose specialties were puffy momos and amdo bread. I tried to learn from this man, and it was from him I was introduced to the phenomenon of baking powder.\r\n\r\nI had the merit to meet Kyabje Sakya Trizin's auntie, who gave me a sense of belonging. Among my daily practices I have many Nyingmapa prayers, and whenever I spent time with the Sakyapas, I felt awkward. But when I heard his auntie doing similar Nyingmapa prayers even though she was a Khon, a Sakya, it made me feel better. She gave me a sense of confirmation and encouragement, and her prayers showed that the older generation wasn't so influenced by cliques.\r\n\r\nOne of my fondest memories of Kyabje Sakya Trizin is when he took a walk with me and the other attendants down Dehradun's main road, Astley Hall, and he ordered tea from a tea stall. It was seemingly so ordinary. He was always curious to know about all kinds of things. Even today when we speak, the conversation is so all inclusive, he\u2019s very inquisitive. Of the many great masters I have been acquainted with\u2014such as the 16th Karmapa and Dudjom Rinpoche\u2014Kyabje Sakya Trizin is one of the few who keeps up with the times, reading newspapers and magazines. I remember that long ago, he had Newsweek <\/em>magazine delivered to his home every week, when the concept of a subscription was practically unheard of.\r\n\r\nEven though he is so curious about the mundane world, he also has an otherworldly quality. We live in a time in which rational thinking and logic are cherished, but aren't we only pretending that we want things to be so logical? Because when something magical happens, there is part of us that is happy.\r\n\r\nLogic is not necessarily the natural way of being; we have to learn to be skeptical about the way of magic. Nevertheless, we are proud of being skeptical. Because of that skepticism, the magic and the power of the blessings cannot be conceived by our narrow rational minds. For those who are so fortunate as to even try to transcend rational limitations, Kyabje Sakya Trizin embodies that magic and those blessings. His presence is of utmost importance because of that. If you are too logical, you become stuck in a zone going around and around like a cat with meat tied to its tail. Reason is a leash that keeps you in that zone, unable to break out.\r\n\r\nI knew Kyabje Sakya Trizin when he was young and not yet married, and even then there was no doubt that he was special. There was so much hope for him to take on the lineage, and expectation for him to father children. I knew his future wife, Dangmo Gyalung Chenmo, before they met and married. She is from the Hochotsang family, the daughter of a highly respected aristocratic physician, considered one of the best in Derge. Hocho Anjam was also a great calligrapher. He, like the entire Hochotsang family, was devoted to Khyentse Ch\u00f6kyi Lodr\u00f6, and I believe the reason he decided to live in exile in Sikkim was because Khyentse Ch\u00f6kyi Lodr\u00f6 had moved to Gangtok.\r\n\r\nGyalung Chenmo often came to the Gangtok Khyentse Labrang, where I was living, to roast barley and do other chores. We treated her as any other ordinary person. Years passed and she became the consort of Kyabje Sakya Trizin and eventually Ratna Vajra Rinpoche arrived, then Gyana Vajra arrived, and now they both have their own children, Kyabje Sakya Trizin's grandchildren.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_202\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"887\"] Kyabje Sakya Trizin with his sister, Jetsun Kushokla, his two sons, His Holiness the 42nd Sakya Trizin Ratna Vajra Rinpoche and Dungse Gyana Vajra Rinpoche, and his granddaughter Jetsunma.<\/em>[\/caption]\r\n\r\nRecently he did something so revolutionary and visionary by abdicating the throne of Sakya to the next generation, to his son and one of the heirs of the Sakya lineage, Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, the 42nd Sakya Trizin.\r\n\r\nWhen I think about my life as a human being, having lived for half a century in a time without parallel\u2014when there are more than 1,800 nuclear weapons on high alert, when the arctic sea ice is melting, and countless people are hungry and countless people are fighting\u2014and when I think that I've shared this time on earth with beings like Kyabje Sakya Trizin, not just one or two moments, but knowing him through various stages of his life, I consider myself very fortunate.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[1]<\/a> A lay practitioner, a yogi.","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[85],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3389","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-episodes-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}