The True Leader’s Code

A leader or bodhisattva is one who has made the commitment to get out of suffering, the causes of suffering, and to help others get out of suffering. 


They have done this in response to a deep internal understanding that no matter how one masters the number two game, that of the material world,
they cannot escape suffering. It is a practical, not a moral or altruistic decision.


In other words, you are answering the question of your soul with the only answer that will satisfy. You are not doing it in response to any external injunction or to “help” anyone, not to be good or popular (in fact you may be very unpopular as a result). You are embarking on the journey that your soul has called for for lifetimes with the understanding that all of
life eventually self-liberates and for whatever reason, you have been given the opportunity to set on the path of true liberation at this time.

Your gifts will realize to
the extent that you are true, despite all obstacles to the aim of getting out of suffering, the causes of suffering and helping others to get out of suffering and apply yourself to that intention in every breathing moment. You are transferring your consciousness 
from the plane of “self”—
the question and response that plagues everyday consciousness, “what does this mean to me?”
in the face of experience, and then the attempt to secure for “self” power, position,
impact, resources, attention, being “special,” and affection. The shift is to the inquiry of “what is being requested of me in this moment?” “What can I offer?”

You are shifting to a position of nobility. Only those of great resources
and wealth can afford to live in the mindset of offering. You have been offered, and you may decline,
the infinite resource and wealth of the dharma. Everything that you have ever wanted from the materiality of the world—the peace, the bliss, the love,
the sense of strength power and dignity, the ability to carry out a deeper vision—is located in the practice of the dharma. You don your dharma crown in the activity of enlightenment, the sincere offering of oneself to the enlightenment of others. It is not self-sacrifice for it is the recognition that there is no “self” that is either permanent or separate. 

You are not helping or
tending to others, you are tending to the aspect of self that is
located in another body. You arise according to the need of the times
in order to live in
pure intimacy with yourself,
to connect what appears separate,
to recognize the shared resource of consciousness
that moves through seemingly separate bodies. This is like a concealed rules game, it’s obvious when you have “gotten” the answers by how you function with what is seemingly outside of “you.” 

There are a few guidelines:

1. There is no “sin” in the dharma,
there is only one instruction and one missing of the mark on that instruction and that is what is termed as vajra pride and the forgetting of your vajra pride and who you are. It is forgetting your own nobility in the dharma.

The instruction is that you must never forget that you are nobility and in doing so, you must act like it.
This is true nobility not worldly nobility meaning that you are powerful enough to be humble.
Because you know who you are, you can bow to all. No need to lord position over anyone. You are wealthy enough 
to be generous. You can be the one who has the least materiality because you have the greatest immateriality. No need to hoard. You are fortified enough
that you do not need to seek outside of yourself for salvation, care, attention, acknowledgement, approval, respect. 

You know who you are and act
like it in every circumstance. You command respect with your true (not bribing or buying people) generosity, magnanimous nature, the fact that all who are in your sphere know that you are “for” them. The old methods of control of means of distribution, offering goodies, control, subtle threat, choosing favorites, seeing one’s impact can fall away.
 


2. Take All Projections and Offer Praise—This reverses the “self” tendency of seeking attention and approval and pushing away blame or going to an authority to deal with issues. You are the bottom line and your world is a reflection of you and your leadership.

If there is chaos and mayhem in the Land then your signal of peace and harmony is not the guiding force.

You attend to infraction through an understanding that these behaviors arise when resources are perceived as scarce. Because you are intimate with all and practice equanimity—holding every person as equally precious, from enemy to outcast to those who suit your preference— you remain in the trenches. 

Each person’s hurt and upset is your hurt and upset. You do not foist it off on another. 

Yet you work as infinitely wealthy nobility. You do not threaten, punish, or deprive; you awaken and fortify the innate desire for self-liberation in every being.

This does not mean that you look away or ignore bad behavior, quite the opposite, this is where you dive in and address immediately. Where others may feel powerless or helpless, you act from the inexhaustible wealth of who you are and the infinite resources that sustain your endeavor to end suffering.