complexity

The Venerable Khandro Rinpoche in an interview with Helen Berliner

"The human attraction to complexity arises when we try to evade putting into action what we know to be important. As practitioners, we listen to a lot of teachings and generate a strong intention to put them into practice. But then we fall back into old habits, instead of putting into practice the teachings that our mind and awareness understand to be true. We try to evade that issue. We're entangled in various practices that we think we should do, but we avoid puttin them phsysically, verbally into practice. By not putting the true view into action, we allow a great deal of laziness and ignorance to arise, which create a great deal of complexity.

"It's very important for all practitioners to have a very simple view. A simple view is whatever you understand to be important and true. Whatever you take to be important and beneficial for yourself and others — take the simplicity of this view and put it into practice. If you are true to your practice, complexity will dissolve. Whether your practice is meditation, compassion, awareness, resting the mind, genuine peace — when the view and action come together, complexity dissolves by itself."