Sweet Catir….thank ypu so much for thinking of me for Hanukkah!!! The book looks like what I need about now…along with a big bath and bomb! Great card. Thank you so much my friend. 😘
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pickI've rated this as 5⭐, but could just as easily have rated it 1, being the difference between what it probably means and what I understand of its meaning. I found it interesting while elusive, engaging while tiring.
I definitely gleaned some things from it, on an intellectual rather than a spiritual level, but as others have mentioned Red Pine's commentary is dense and certainly beyond my severely limited understanding of Buddhist thought.
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“The Buddha asks us to see things as they really are. He does not ask us to cling to optimistic views of eternity or pessimistic views of annihilation but simply to examine our experience.” 🪷
picki love learning about hinduism a lot of symbolism and dharma and vishnu and lag dah da
"We are urged to rely on the teaching and not the author, the meaning and not the letter, the truth and not the convention, the knowledge and not the information."
- Red Pine
Although I'd noted that The Heart Sutra is described as a short text, and that Red Pine provides a commentary on it, I'd assumed that it would, perhaps, be about a 50/50 split. However, the Sutra is 35 lines, and the rest of the 200 pages is commentary! Looks like this will be a deep dive ❤
Have always wanted to read the original verses of Panchatantra... Excited!! 😁💗
#reading #bookish #Indianclassics
pickThis is a book of contraries and complimentary opposites. Divided into four sections (2x2): Gaining Friends-Splitting Partners; War-Peace. It is a story told by the wise to the foolish, it's most often form being a dialogue in which friends or adversaries debate a moral point using verse aphorisms and fables, the point being often conceded, but rarely won, and frequently contradicted in another part of the book. 👇🏻👇🏻
"This is mine, and this is not" -
Thus do the small-minded see.
The large-hearted have always thought
The world itself a family.
It's pleasant to come unexpectedly upon old friends: The Hitopadeśa tale of the "The Hasty Priest and the Loyal Mongoose" is identical with the Welsh legend of "Llewelyn and the Dog Gelert". In both, the loyal pet guards its owner's baby while he goes out. Upon return, the pet is found, its mouth dripping with blood and is killed in a rage, too late to discover the baby well and a dead snake (Hitopadeśa) or wolf (Welsh) by the overturned cradle.
