Some small-minded persons, equipped only with the faith of fools / Have written many fabricated histories to inspire others. / Most people are so foolish that such fraudulent and unsound words and meanings might in fact increase their faith, / But when wise readers see or hear of these words, they are startled and amused and for this reason develop doubts in all pure teachings and individuals./ Such books are the work of demons: what could be more harmful?
Greg Zwahlen: July 2009 Archives
Tuesday July 14, 2009
Categories: Buddhism, Talking Dharma
Tāranātha on Padmasambhava's lotus-birth
According to Tibetan tradition, the eighth-century yogin Padmasambhava was born as an eight-year-old child on a lotus blossom in Lake Dhanakosha. His name, in fact, literally means "Lotus Born."
This is what the early 17th-century Tibetan historian Tāranātha had to say about that:
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Contemplating the uncontemplatable?
Recently the New York Times "Happy Days" blog ran a piece by Tim Kreider, who was stabbed in the throat fourteen years ago. He writes:
After my unsuccessful murder I wasn't unhappy for an entire year. . . . I'm not claiming I was continuously euphoric the whole time; it's just that, during that grace period, nothing much could bother me or get me down. . . . It's one of the maddening perversities of human psychology that we only notice we're alive when we're reminded we're going to die.
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