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Drala and The Little Prince - Shambhala Teaching
This Shambhala Teaching is recommended healing for your soul:
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"The Little Prince" By Antoine de Saint Exupery is another wonderful example of literature that evokes the sense of ordinary, or elemental magic. At one point in this story, the little prince meets a fox. The prince is very lonely and wants the fox to play with him, but the fox says that he cannot play unless he is tamed. The little prince asks the meaning of the word "tame". The fox explains that it means "to establish ties" in such a way that the fox will become unique to the little prince, and the prince unique to the fox. Later, after the fox as been tamed and the little prince must leave him, the fox also tells the prince what he calls "my secret, a very siimple secret," which is, "it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Saint Exupery has a different vocabulary here for describing the discovery of magic, or drala, but the experience is basically the same. Discovering drala is indeed to establish ties to your world, so that each perception becomes unique. It is to see with the heart, so that what is invisible to the eye becomes visible as the living magic of reality. There may be thousands or billions of perceptions, but there are still one. If you see one candle, you know exactly what all the candles in the whole world look like. They are all made out of fire, flame. Seeing one drop of water can be seeing all the water.
Drala could almost be called an entity. It is not quite on the level of a god or gods, but is an individual strenth that does exist. Therefore, we not only speak of drala principle, but we speak of meeting "dralas". The dralas are the elements of reality -- water of water, fire of fire, earth of earth -- anything that connects you with the elemental quality of reality, anything that reminds you of the depths of perception. There are dralas in the rocks or the trees or the mountains or a snowflake or a clod of dirt. Whatever is there, whatever you come across in your life, there are the dralas of reality. When you make that connection with the elemental quality of the world, you are meeting dralas on the spot: at that point, you are meeting them. That is the basic existence of which all human beings are capable. We always have possibilitites of disovering magic. Whether it is medieval times or the twentieth century (and beyond) - the possibility of magic is there. ...'
From: pg 104-105
Shambhala The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa
