What is your favorite "song"/poem from the texts?
What is your favorite "song"/poem from the texts?
I have an interested in short songs/poems in the texts (such as Milarepa's). Does anyone have other traditional Tibetan teachings in poetic verse or in song, they really like?
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monktastic
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Re: What is your favorite "song"/poem from the texts?
http://www.unfetteredmind.org/recognizi ... -as-guru/0
What more instruction could one need?
Rang rig don gyi la ma!
What more instruction could one need?
Rang rig don gyi la ma!
This undistracted state of ordinary mind
Is the meditation.
One will understand it in due course.
--Gampopa
Is the meditation.
One will understand it in due course.
--Gampopa
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monktastic
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Re: What is your favorite "song"/poem from the texts?
And two from Saraha:
http://quotes.justdharma.com/the-root-o ... ng-saraha/
http://quotes.justdharma.com/neither-this-nor-that/
http://quotes.justdharma.com/the-root-o ... ng-saraha/
http://quotes.justdharma.com/neither-this-nor-that/
This undistracted state of ordinary mind
Is the meditation.
One will understand it in due course.
--Gampopa
Is the meditation.
One will understand it in due course.
--Gampopa
Re: What is your favorite "song"/poem from the texts?
That one is brilliant.monktastic wrote:http://www.unfetteredmind.org/recognizi ... -as-guru/0
What more instruction could one need?
Rang rig don gyi la ma!
The Blessed One said:
"What is the All? Simply the eye & forms, ear & sounds, nose & aromas, tongue & flavors, body & tactile sensations, intellect & ideas. This, monks, is called the All. Anyone who would say, 'Repudiating this All, I will describe another,' if questioned on what exactly might be the grounds for his statement, would be unable to explain, and furthermore, would be put to grief. Why? Because it lies beyond range." Sabba Sutta.
"What is the All? Simply the eye & forms, ear & sounds, nose & aromas, tongue & flavors, body & tactile sensations, intellect & ideas. This, monks, is called the All. Anyone who would say, 'Repudiating this All, I will describe another,' if questioned on what exactly might be the grounds for his statement, would be unable to explain, and furthermore, would be put to grief. Why? Because it lies beyond range." Sabba Sutta.
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Palzang Jangchub
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Re: What is your favorite "song"/poem from the texts?
Lord Jigten Sumgön's Song on the Fivefold Mahamudra is pretty amazing. The metaphors, in particular, are quite evocative.
The following PDF includes the text in Tibetan, English, Mandarin (Chinese), and Korean:
http://www.kagyumonlam.org/Download/TEX ... xtbook.pdf
The following PDF includes the text in Tibetan, English, Mandarin (Chinese), and Korean:
http://www.kagyumonlam.org/Download/TEX ... xtbook.pdf
"The Sutras, Tantras, and Philosophical Scriptures are great in number. However life is short, and intelligence is limited, so it's hard to cover them completely. You may know a lot, but if you don't put it into practice, it's like dying of thirst on the shore of a great lake. Likewise, a common corpse is found in the bed of a great scholar." ~ Karma Chagme
དྲིན་ཆེན་རྩ་བའི་བླ་མ་སྐྱབས་རྗེ་མགར་ཆེན་ཁྲི་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཁྱེད་མཁྱེན་ནོ།།
རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མ་མཁས་གྲུབ་ཀརྨ་ཆགས་མེད་མཁྱེན་ནོ། ཀརྨ་པ་མཁྱེན་ནོཿ