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True meaning of Exodus

"Samsara is described with many different analogies, such as a prison, a swamp and a nightmare.
But for me, it is a slaughterhouse in which none will be spared. All enter, none come out.

We correctly decry the Nazi death camps, but we don’t think twice about the much larger genocide taking place all around us. All who are born must die, and they will be tormented by suffering the whole way.
Death holds total dominion over us all. His reign goes unquestioned and unchallenged by all but the few brave souls, such as Jesus and Buddha, who stood their ground and defeated death itself. Because we doubt it can be done, we don’t even try. But it can be done, and we have been given the methods for how to do so.If we succeed, and success is guaranteed if we never give up trying, we will not only conquer death ourselves but we will gain the ability to help all others do the same. We will stand at the door of death where we will lovingly greet all and guide them to permanent freedom. We admire the soldiers who free people from captivity, we worship Moses who freed the Jewish people from Egyptian bondage, but no real freedom is ever found in samsara.

The true meaning of Exodus is from samsara, from uncontrolled death itself.

The Buddhas have come for us. Our time is now. We are invited to bring along all those we love. The freedom of all is assured if we but follow.
Material poverty is tragic, but it pales in comparison with spiritual poverty. We could be the richest person on earth, but spiritually poor, and our life would have no meaning. We could be the poorest person on earth, but spiritually rich, and we would lack for nothing. The only reason we lack anything is because we ignorantly grasp at ourselves as somehow being separate from all things.

When we realize the wisdom of non-dual emptiness, we not only will lack nothing we will become everything.

What else can promise such things?"


Kadampa Ryan