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Looking for the Source of This Quotation

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 5:43 pm
by sukhamanveti
Hello. :smile:

I am looking for the source of these well-known words of Guru Rinpoche:

"Although my view is higher than the sky,

"My respect for the cause and effect of actions is as fine as grains of flour."
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I have seen several versions this important teaching quoted often, but I have never seen the title of the source text. This makes me wonder if the terma source is not a text, but a mind terma or a pure vision terma. On the other hand, maybe it simply appears in more than one text or in some long-forgotten location in the more than sixty volumes of terma texts. Does anyone know where it comes from?

Thank you in advance to the kind person with the elusive answer.


* http://www.lotsawaschool.org/padmasambhava_quotes.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Looking for the Source of This Quotation

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:42 am
by narraboth
I have seen it in Guru Rinpoche's biography.
I forgot which one though, Zanglingma rediscovered by Nyang terton or the one by Orgyen Lingpa.
sukhamanveti wrote:Hello. :smile:

I am looking for the source of these well-known words of Guru Rinpoche:

"Although my view is higher than the sky,

"My respect for the cause and effect of actions is as fine as grains of flour."
*


I have seen several versions this important teaching quoted often, but I have never seen the title of the source text. This makes me wonder if the terma source is not a text, but a mind terma or a pure vision terma. On the other hand, maybe it simply appears in more than one text or in some long-forgotten location in the more than sixty volumes of terma texts. Does anyone know where it comes from?

Thank you in advance to the kind person with the elusive answer.


* http://www.lotsawaschool.org/padmasambhava_quotes.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;