{"id":3450,"date":"2018-04-17T02:35:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T02:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/project\/i-am-buddha\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T22:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:49:23","slug":"i-am-buddha","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/project\/i-am-buddha\/","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE DUA\u00a0BELAS: Aku adalah Buddha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aku tak ragu sedikitpun bahwa aku adalah Buddha. Keyakinan ini bukan hasil membaca teks, seperti Uttaratantra, yang mengatakan bahwa kekotoran batinku bersifat sementara dan bukanlah sifat sejatiku; Aku bukan termasuk orang yang pandai mengandalkan logika dan penalaran, aku terlalu curiga pada diriku yang melakukan pengandalan ini. Tidak, aku percaya aku adalah Buddha karena guru-guruku berulang kali mengatakan bahwa aku adalah Buddha. Aku ini salah satu makhluk malas yang menikmati afirmasi dari orang lain, terutama afirmasi dari guru-guruku. Namun perlu diingat bahwa guru-guruku juga mengatakan bahwa semua makhluk adalah Buddha.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-269\" src=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_1375-131x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_1375-131x300.jpg 131w, https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_1375.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sayangnya, meskipun aku seorang Buddha, Buddha yang satu ini masih terbungkus seperti ulat sutera. Kepompong sutraku tak kunjung habis, halus, dan berwarna-warni. Kepompong ini adalah batin. Dan aku terjebak dengan batin, sama seperti aku terjebak dengan telinga bengkok dan tahi lalat di bibir atasku. Aku kira untuk telinga yang bengkok dan tahi lalat di bibirku, aku bisa pergi ke Seoul untuk mengubahnya agar mendekati sempurna. Tetapi mengubah atau melenyapkan batin, itu lain cerita.<\/p>\n<p>Jika batin ini hanya diam dan membeku, situasinya akan berbeda, namun bukan begitu keadaannya. Batin terus menyadari dengan menyakitkan, memperhatikan dengan jengkelnya, merasakan dengan frustrasi, mengetahui dengan penuh penderitaan, menghakimi tanpa kendali, membenarkan tanpa harapan, dan berempati dengan menipu, terus menerus, tanpa henti. Batin juga berulang kali salah paham, dengan mudahnya membuat asumsi, keliru memahami secara membabi buta, dan selalu kehilangan \u201cBuddha\u201d dalam diri. Batin seperti monyet peliharaan yang mengetahui semua trik yang diajarkan tuannya\u2014menari dan melakukan jungkir balik\u2014tapi tak tahu cara melepas tali kekang yang mengikatnya. Bukankah lebih baik menjadi batu atau kayu? Jika kita punya pilihan. Aku bahkan tidak ingin menjadi android Philip K. Dick, karena mereka pun menderita karena sesuatu yang mirip empati.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-258 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/blade-runner-2049-rachel-vfx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/blade-runner-2049-rachel-vfx.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/blade-runner-2049-rachel-vfx-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/blade-runner-2049-rachel-vfx-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aku mungkin melukiskan batin sebagai sesuatu yang menipu dan tak membantu, bahkan jahat, namun tidak semuanya buruk. Batin bisa juga bermanfaat. Sebagaimana batin adalah kepompong, batin juga merupakan jalan menuju Buddha. Batinlah yang merindukan Buddha. Batinlah yang mengagumi Buddha. Ketika batin terpojok oleh penderitaan, batin mulai rindu untuk terbangun dan terbebas. Ketika batin berinteraksi dengan dunia, dari momen ia masuk hingga keluar, batin melakukannya melalui melihat, mencium, mengecap, mendengar, merasa, dan mengetahui, yang mengarah ke berbagai permainan, warna, bentuk, dan corak. Dan bagaikan seorang pembunuh yang meninggalkan noda darah, ketika batin merasuki dan menaklukkan dunia, batin selalu meninggalkan jejak.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-259 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0943-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0943-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0943.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Betapapun halusnya, ketika batin menari melalui kesadaran akan penciuman, batin mengukir jejak terdalam. Memang tidak terlihat nyata, namun meninggalkan kesan yang begitu kuat. Bahkan setelah puluhan tahun berlalu, setiap kali aku menggunakan sabun <em>Pears<\/em>, kenangan akan Lama Sonam Zangpo, ayah dari ibuku, hidup kembali. Aku tidak ingat seperti apa handuk kakekku, tetapi aroma <em>Pears<\/em> ini begitu jelas. Dan aroma bakaran juniper, daun hia, dan dupa mengingatkanku pada beliau ketika membuat persembahan setiap paginya. Aroma jali-jali mengingatkanku pada malam hari ketika beliau mempersembahkan <em>sur<\/em>. Diantara penerima persembahan ini ada makhluk yang disebut <em>terang<\/em>. Mereka diyakini sebagai hantu yang penderitaannya adalah kecanduan menyembunyikan barang orang lain sebagai bentuk lelucon. Mereka begitu terjebak dalam lelucon ini sehingga mereka lupa makan selama ribuan tahun dan selalu merasa lapar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-270\" src=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kakekku adalah seorang yogi. Beliau tak pernah memiliki rumah besar. Beliau terus berpindah-pindah. Aku ingat di salah satu rumah yang beliau tinggali, beliau tinggal di sebuah kamar yang sangat kecil sehingga tempat tidurnya hampir tidak muat di kamar itu. Di samping tempat tidurnya ada sebuah dinding dan dinding itu memiliki pintu kecil, yang memungkinkan beliau melihat ke ruangan sebelah, dimana banyak aktivitas terjadi.<\/p>\n<p>Orang-orang akan duduk di sana dan menerima ajaran dari Lama Sonam Zangpo melalui lubang ini. Jika beliau harus bertemu dengan pejabat atau pengunjung lain, beliau melakukannya dengan cara yang sama. Mereka hampir tidak bisa melihatnya melalui lubang itu.<\/p>\n<p>Dipercaya bahwa beliau tak pernah benar-benar berbaring tidur seperti manusia normal, yang tak dapat kupastikan karena aku selalu tertidur sebelum beliau. Pagi-pagi sekali ketika aku bangun, beliau sudah sedang duduk berdoa atau bermeditasi atau memesan lukisan atau lainnya. Semua ini terjadi dari tempat tidur beliau. Menjelang akhir hidupnya, beliau hampir tak pernah berjalan berkeliling. Pagi-pagi sekali ketika kami semua bangun, pelayannya Tsokola akan membawa ember besar berisi air hangat suam dan beliau mencuci muka tepat di tempat tidurnya menggunakan sabun Pears. Seingatku, itu satu-satunya sabun yang beliau gunakan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-264 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pears-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pears-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pears.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sekarang, setelah 50 tahun, bahkan ketika aku melihat sabun batangan coklat transparan Pears, aku bisa mengingat baunya dan aku langsung dibawa ke ruangan kecil di Hontsho, Thimphu, atau bahkan ke tempat sebelumnya bernama Kulikata. Bau sapi dan kotoran sapi juga selalu membawaku kembali ke masa kecilku karena keluarga kami memiliki beberapa ekor sapi. Begitu pula ketumbar, jahe dan cabai, mereka membawaku ke Dewathang dan kenangan ketika nenekku membuat salad cabai ala Bhutan.<\/p>\n<p>Tentu saja tak semua aroma membawa kenangan indah. Bahkan setelah bertahun-tahun, setiap kali truk India lewat, asap knalpot membawa kenangan tak menyenangkan yang kualami saat melakukan perjalanan dari Phuntsholing ke Thimphu di belakang truk. Aku melakukan perjalanan ini beberapa kali bertahun-tahun yang lalu dan itu memakan waktu tiga hari; sebuah perjalanan yang kini bisa ditempuh hanya dalam waktu empat jam. Tapi mungkin bau knalpot itu sangat meresahkan karena segera setelah aku diakui sebagai tulku ketika aku masih kecil, aku harus mengucapkan selamat tinggal kepada kakek-nenekku. Mereka berjalan bersamaku seharian ke jalan terdekat di mana sebuah truk bak terbuka telah menunggu. Menembus kepulan asap knalpot, kami melaju, sementara pemandangan nenekku yang sedang menangis di pinggir jalan semakin samar.<\/p>\n<p>Dipercaya bahwa semua guru besar mempunyai aroma yang khas. Kedisiplinan mereka untuk tidak menyakiti dan tekun membantu semua makhluk begitu kuat sehingga bermanifes dalam bentuk keharuman: Harumnya perbuatan\/tindakan benar. Aroma misterius ini terdeteksi di kamar Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Tentu saja, banyak aroma lain dari berbagai bahan memenuhi ruangan ini. Ritual dan inisiasi tanpa akhir yang dilakukan di sana memerlukan pembakaran dupa yang sangat banyak. Kyabje Rinpoche adalah salah satu penyebar terbesar dupa dari tradisi Mindroling.<\/p>\n<p>Beliau juga menggunakan berbagai jenis sabun dan pelembab. Selalu ada krim Nivea dalam kaleng biru dan tabung Boroline. Namun keharuman yang khas dan tak terlukiskan ini tidak berasal dari satupun bahan wewangian ini. Dimanapun beliau bermanifestasi, baik itu di taksi di Kathmandu atau di bangku stasiun kereta api India, aroma ini ada, setidaknya untuk sesaat. Aroma itu meresap ke dalam jubahnya. Bertahun-tahun setelah beliau meninggal, aku ingat masuk ke kamarnya di Biara Shechen di Boudanath lalu aku mencoba mengendus tempat tidurnya secara tidak mencolok.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-266 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/HH-Khyentse-Rinpoche.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/HH-Khyentse-Rinpoche.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/HH-Khyentse-Rinpoche-300x210.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Baru-baru ini, aku mengunjungi La Sonnnerie di Perancis, tempat Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche memberikan begitu banyak ajaran dan dimana tempat tidurnya masih disimpan seolah-olah beliau baru saja keluar sebentar. Aku memasuki kamar dan meletakkan kepalaku di tempat tidur dan seketika, hampir tiga puluh tahun kemudian, memori akan aroma itu muncul kembali. Mungkin itu hanya permainan pikiranku.<\/p>\n<p>Namun, memori akan aroma ini mengingatkanku kembali bahwa, tidak peduli bagaimanapun aku mengembara dalam khayalan ini, aku adalah Buddha. Aku adalah Buddha.<\/p>\n<p>Jika seseorang tahu cara menggunakan kepompong, bagaimana mengurai benangnya dan menggunakannya sebagai panduan, ini akan menuntun kita menuju pencerahan. Sebagaimana yang dilakukan Saraha yang agung, aku memberi penghormatan kepada batin yang seperti permata, seperti kepompong.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gambar Unggulan: Buddha TV oleh artis Korea Selatan Nam June Paik <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And like a murderer leaving a bloodstain, as mind pervades and conquers the world, the mind always leaves an imprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"I have not a single doubt that I am Buddha. This certainty is not a result of reading texts, such as the Uttaratantra, where it says that my defilements are temporary and not my true nature; I am not one of those people who has the wit to rely on logic and reasoning, I am too suspicious of this self who is doing the relying. No, I believe I am a Buddha because my masters have told me I am a Buddha, again and again. I am one of those lazy beings who enjoys affirmation from others, especially affirmation from my masters. But keep in mind that my masters also said all beings are Buddha.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-269\" src=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_1375-131x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"300\" \/>Alas, even though I am Buddha, this Buddha is cocooned like a silkworm. My silky cocoon is endless, delicate, and colorful. This cocoon is mind. And I am stuck with this mind, just as I am stuck with a bent ear and a mole on my upper lip. I suppose for the bent ear and the mole on my lip, I could go to Seoul to have them altered to near perfection. As for altering or removing mind, it's altogether a different matter.\r\n\r\nIf this mind stayed idle, frozen, it would be a different ballgame, but that's not the case. This mind keeps on painfully cognizing, irritatingly noticing, frustratingly feeling, agonizingly knowing, uncontrollably judging, hopelessly confirming, and deceptively empathizing, on and on, incessantly. This mind also keeps on leisurely misunderstanding, easily making misassumptions, blindly miscuing and simply missing the Buddha all the time. This mind is like a domesticated monkey who knows all the tricks his captor has taught\u2014to dance and to do somersaults\u2014but who doesn't seem to have a clue how to take off the leash that binds him. Wouldn't it be better to be a stone or a piece of wood? That is if we could choose. I don't even want to be a Philip K. Dick android, even they suffered from something akin to empathy.<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-258 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/blade-runner-2049-rachel-vfx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" \/>\r\n\r\nI may have painted a picture of the mind as something deluded and uncooperative, even malicious, but all is not lost. The mind can be useful. As much as the mind is a cocoon, the mind is also the path that will lead to the Buddha. It is the mind that does the longing for the Buddha. It is the mind that admires the Buddha. When the mind is cornered by suffering, the mind longs to be awakened and be free. When this mind interacts with the world, from the moment it enters until it exits, it does so through seeing, smelling, tasting, hearing, feeling, and knowing, leading to myriad games, colors, shapes, and hues. And like a murderer leaving a bloodstain, as mind pervades and conquers the world, the mind always leaves an imprint.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-259 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0943-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/>\r\n\r\nAs subtle as it may be, when the mind dances through the\u00a0cognizance of smell, it carves the deepest imprint. It's not tangible, yet leaves such a strong impression. Even after decades have passed, every time I use Pears soap, memories of Lama Sonam Zangpo, my mother's father, come alive. I can't remember what his towel looked like, but this scent of Pears is so vivid. And the smell of burning juniper, mugwort, and incense remind me of him making offerings every morning. The smell of barley reminds me of the evenings when he offered <em>sur<\/em>. Among the recipients of this offering are beings called <em>terang<\/em>. They are believed to be goblins whose suffering is an addiction to hiding people's belongings as a prank. They get so intertwined by this prank playing that they forget to eat for eons and they are always hungry.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-270\" src=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"213\" \/>My grandfather was a yogi. He never owned a big house. He moved around constantly. I remember in one of the homes he lived, he stayed in a room so small the bed barely fit inside. Next to his bed was a wall and the wall had a small portal from which he could look into the adjoining room where everything happened. People would sit there and receive teachings from Lama Sonam Zangpo through this hole. If he was to meet dignitaries or other visitors, he did so in the same way. They could barely see him through that hole.\r\n\r\nIt is believed that he never really lay down to sleep like a normal human being, which I cannot confirm because I was always asleep before him. Early in the morning when I woke up he would already be sitting doing prayers or meditating or commissioning a painting or whatever else. Everything happened from his bed. Toward the end of his life, he barely walked around. Early in the morning when we all woke up, his attendant Tsokola would bring a large pail filled with luke warm water and he would wash his face right on his bed using Pears soap. That's the only soap I remember him using.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-264 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pears-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/>Now, after 50 years, even when I see the brownish translucence of a bar of Pears soap, I can recall the smell and I am taken right into that tiny room in Hontsho, Thimphu, or even to an earlier place called Kulikata. Also the smell of cows and cow dung always takes me back to my childhood as our family owned a few cows.\u00a0And coriander, ginger and chili, take me to Dewathang and memories of my grandmother making Bhutanese chili salad.\r\n\r\nObviously not all smells bring good memories. Even after all these years, every time an Indian truck barrels by, the clouds of exhaust bring unpleasant memories I have of travelling from Phuntsholing to Thimphu in the back of the truck. I made this journey several times many years ago and it would take three days; a journey that can now be achieved in just four hours. But maybe that smell of exhaust is so unsettling because soon after I was recognized as a tulku when I was a young child, I had to bid farewell to my grandparents.\u00a0They walked with me for a day to the nearest road where a flatbed truck awaited. Through a cloud of exhaust, we drove off, as the image of my grandmother crying on the roadside receded.\r\n\r\nIt is believed that all the greatest masters have a distinctive scent. Their discipline of not harming and diligently always helping others is so strong that it manifests as a fragrance: the fragrance of right conduct. This mysterious scent could be detected in Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's room. Of course, many other scents from different substances filled the room. The endless rituals and initiations performed there required burning so much incense. Kyabje Rinpoche was one of the biggest propagators of the incense from the Mindroling tradition. He also used all different kinds of soaps and moisturizers. There was always Nivea cream in a blue tin and tubes of Boroline. But this distinctive, indescribable fragrance did not come from any of these olfactory substances. Wherever he manifested, be it a taxi in Kathmandu or on a bench in an Indian train station, this fragrance could be traced, at least for a short time. It permeated his robes. Years after he passed away, I remember going into his chambers at Shechen Monastery in Boudanath and I would try to inconspicuously sniff his bed.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-266 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mugwortborn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/HH-Khyentse-Rinpoche.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\" \/>\r\n\r\nRecently, I went to La Sonnnerie in France, where Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche had given so many teachings and where his bed is still kept as if he's just gone out for a short visit. I entered the room and placed my head on the bed and instantly, nearly thirty years later, the memory of the smell came back. Probably it was my mind playing tricks. Nevertheless, this memory of a smell was enough to bring back the reminder that, no matter how I roam in this delusion, I am the Buddha. I am the Buddha.\r\n\r\nIf one knows how to use the cocoon, to unravel the thread and use it as a guide, it can lead us to the awakened state. Emulating the great Saraha, I pay homage to the jewel-like mind, cocoon that it may be.\r\n\r\n<em>Featured Image: Buddha TV by South Korean artist Nam June Paik\u00a0<\/em>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[85],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3450","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\/3450","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=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/3450\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugwortborn.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}