I agree,...these three are great treasures,...for those who can comprehend them.
What is simple in thought? Is it being simple in ego perception, or beyond egoic think? What is the authentic patience that accords with the way things are? Buddha realized enlightenment through understanding that suffering is a consequence of the desire for things to be other than they are.
And compassion. So very few on this planet today have an understanding of what real compassion is. Chögyam Trungpa said, “Compassion is not so much feeling sorry for somebody, feeling that you are in a better place and somebody is in a worse place. Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things. That reflection is an automatic and natural process, an organic process. As light has no hesitation, no inhibition about reflecting on things, it does not discriminate whether to reflect on a pile of shit or on a pile of rock or on a pile of diamonds. It reflects on everything it faces.”
Yet who today walks in the light that can shine itself upon the shit of religion, belief, and the moderates and appeasers who advocate the co-existence of insanity?
Anyone who supports interfaith initiatives is anti-compassion,...for their light is so dim, and obscured by beliefs, that hardly a shadow can be seen.
In today's world, the three treasures above are hidden treasures,...and they will remain hidden, for people rather cling to delusions for their identity.
One of my bumper-stickers reads:
REAL COMPASSION
is intolerant of all religion
(people are not their beliefs)
JV Marco