Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
"You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of."
- Robert Penn Warren -
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Re: Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
In Thailand, the Chinese are trying to buy all the country's earthworms for their energy drinks, and many farmers ignorant of the role earthworms play in soil health, and many people desperate for a little ready cash, are selling theirs (and poaching from other farmers' lands). In Laos, they have deforested whole provinces. In Burma, they control the jade mines. For some reason this does not get labeled as colonialism by another name.
Re: Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
Only white people get to be imperialists and colonialists. You know that. Jeez.
Buddhahood in This Life
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔
[A]nything at all that is well spoken is the word of the Buddha.
-- Ārya-adhyāśaya-sañcodana-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra
The different sūtras in accord with the emptiness
taught by the Sugata are definitive in meaning;
One can understand that all of those Dharmas in
which a sentient being, individual, or person are taught are provisional in meaning.
-- Samadhirāja Sūtra
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔
[A]nything at all that is well spoken is the word of the Buddha.
-- Ārya-adhyāśaya-sañcodana-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra
The different sūtras in accord with the emptiness
taught by the Sugata are definitive in meaning;
One can understand that all of those Dharmas in
which a sentient being, individual, or person are taught are provisional in meaning.
-- Samadhirāja Sūtra
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Re: Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
"Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work."cyril wrote: Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
— Gurney Halleck, Dune, 1984
I'd have run off the farm into the thickets.
It seems that we live in interesting times.
Re: Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
Well, I just want to make sure no one intrudes on my white, anglo, imperialist privilege.
Buddhahood in This Life
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔
[A]nything at all that is well spoken is the word of the Buddha.
-- Ārya-adhyāśaya-sañcodana-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra
The different sūtras in accord with the emptiness
taught by the Sugata are definitive in meaning;
One can understand that all of those Dharmas in
which a sentient being, individual, or person are taught are provisional in meaning.
-- Samadhirāja Sūtra
འ༔ ཨ༔ ཧ༔ ཤ༔ ས༔ མ༔
[A]nything at all that is well spoken is the word of the Buddha.
-- Ārya-adhyāśaya-sañcodana-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra
The different sūtras in accord with the emptiness
taught by the Sugata are definitive in meaning;
One can understand that all of those Dharmas in
which a sentient being, individual, or person are taught are provisional in meaning.
-- Samadhirāja Sūtra
Re: Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
"A wild ass" may carry several different connotations. There might be outer, inner and secret layers of meaning.The Cicada wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:03 pm
"Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work."
— Gurney Halleck, Dune, 1984
"You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of."
- Robert Penn Warren -
- Robert Penn Warren -
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Re: Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
You caught me. Just to confirm, what was the secret meaning?cyril wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 7:39 pm"A wild ass" may carry several different connotations. There might be outer, inner and secret layers of meaning.The Cicada wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:03 pm
"Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work."
— Gurney Halleck, Dune, 1984
Re: Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
You should check with your lama about that. It is called secret meaning for a reason.The Cicada wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:22 pm
You caught me. Just to confirm, what was the secret meaning?
"You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of."
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Re: Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
I thought I was a rouge Hokke practitioner. Which lama am I being assigned to in order to rein me in and has the word already spread that I'm supposedly a jackass?cyril wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:07 amYou should check with your lama about that. It is called secret meaning for a reason.The Cicada wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:22 pm
You caught me. Just to confirm, what was the secret meaning?
Re: Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
I asked the LS for you, and it said that a "wild ass" was a euphemism for exactly what it sounds like.The Cicada wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:28 pmI thought I was a rouge Hokke practitioner. Which lama am I being assigned to in order to rein me in and has the word already spread that I'm supposedly a jackass?cyril wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:07 amYou should check with your lama about that. It is called secret meaning for a reason.The Cicada wrote: ↑Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:22 pm
You caught me. Just to confirm, what was the secret meaning?
Trust me, I'm Irish.
世尊在靈山會上拈華示眾眾皆默然唯迦葉破顏微笑世尊云
The Lord dwelt at the Vulture Peak with the assembly and plucked a flower as a teaching. The myriad totality were silent, save for Kāśyapa, whose face cracked in a faint smile. The Lord spoke.
吾有正法眼藏涅槃妙心實相無相微妙法門不立文字教外別傳付囑摩訶迦葉。
I have the treasure of the true dharma eye, I have nirvāṇa as wondrous citta, I know signless dharmatā, the subtle dharma-gate, which is not standing on written word, which is external to scriptures, which is a special dispensation, which is entrusted to Mahākāśyapa.
नस्वातोनापिपरतोनद्वाभ्यांनाप्यहेतुतः
उत्पन्नाजातुविद्यन्तेभावाःक्वचनकेचन
The Lord dwelt at the Vulture Peak with the assembly and plucked a flower as a teaching. The myriad totality were silent, save for Kāśyapa, whose face cracked in a faint smile. The Lord spoke.
吾有正法眼藏涅槃妙心實相無相微妙法門不立文字教外別傳付囑摩訶迦葉。
I have the treasure of the true dharma eye, I have nirvāṇa as wondrous citta, I know signless dharmatā, the subtle dharma-gate, which is not standing on written word, which is external to scriptures, which is a special dispensation, which is entrusted to Mahākāśyapa.
नस्वातोनापिपरतोनद्वाभ्यांनाप्यहेतुतः
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