Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
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Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
A Zen-inspired prose poem.
Is it really Buddhist?
I don't know.
Here's a poem for you:
Did Shakyamuni really sit down & wake up under that tree
or was he just conning everybody?
After all, the man seems to have had no credentials.
Why should anybody believe a thing he taught?
Is it really Buddhist?
I don't know.
Here's a poem for you:
Did Shakyamuni really sit down & wake up under that tree
or was he just conning everybody?
After all, the man seems to have had no credentials.
Why should anybody believe a thing he taught?
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Re: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
Under every blade of grass there sits a Buddha
teaching truth to all whose heart can "hear".
Adorned with the major and minor marks
medals honoring the countless battles he fought.
teaching truth to all whose heart can "hear".
Adorned with the major and minor marks
medals honoring the countless battles he fought.
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Re: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
mujushinkyo wrote:A Zen-inspired prose poem.
Is it really Buddhist?
I don't know.
Here's a poem for you:
Did Shakyamuni really sit down & wake up under that tree
or was he just conning everybody?
After all, the man seems to have had no credentials.
Why should anybody believe a thing he taught?
b the wind - b the rain
b all that u can b in the ah-me
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Actually, apart from the fact that he was enlightened the Buddha was also qualified to teach on the basis of the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;He left Rajagaha and practised under two hermit teachers. After mastering the teachings of Alara Kalama (Skr. Ārāḍa Kālāma), he was asked by Kalama to succeed him. However, Gautama felt unsatisfied by the practise, and moved on to become a student of Udaka Ramaputta (Skr. Udraka Rāmaputra). With him he achieved high levels of meditative consciousness, and was again asked to succeed his teacher. But, once more, he was not satisfied, and again moved on.
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Re: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
Its not the Buddha that pulls the con. Its all those who demonstrate their rejection of him by taking Refuge in an idea.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Re: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
Simon E. wrote:Its not the Buddha that pulls the con. Its all those who demonstrate their rejection of him by taking Refuge in an idea.
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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Yes, Buddha was qualified to teach in two schools of Hindu Yoga. But was he qualified to teach Buddhism?gregkavarnos wrote:Actually, apart from the fact that he was enlightened the Buddha was also qualified to teach on the basis of the following:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;He left Rajagaha and practised under two hermit teachers. After mastering the teachings of Alara Kalama (Skr. Ārāḍa Kālāma), he was asked by Kalama to succeed him. However, Gautama felt unsatisfied by the practise, and moved on to become a student of Udaka Ramaputta (Skr. Udraka Rāmaputra). With him he achieved high levels of meditative consciousness, and was again asked to succeed his teacher. But, once more, he was not satisfied, and again moved on.
Wake up! It's a beautiful, completely realized world. Nothing is lacking.
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I don't reject Buddha. I am Buddha. So are you, if you'd wake up to it. No, I guess you'd rather argue! The wind wants to comb your hair, the rain wants to bathe you, but you prefer some hopeless and deranged idea of "Emptiness." Go for it! Just don't forget that you always have to come back to This.Simon E. wrote:Its not the Buddha that pulls the con. Its all those who demonstrate their rejection of him by taking Refuge in an idea.
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Now that has to be one of the dumbest things I have heard for a long time. Please refer to above posted poem.mujushinkyo wrote:Yes, Buddha was qualified to teach in two schools of Hindu Yoga. But was he qualified to teach Buddhism?
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Re: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
No. I am not Buddha. You may be for all I know.mujushinkyo wrote:I don't reject Buddha. I am Buddha. So are you, if you'd wake up to it. No, I guess you'd rather argue! The wind wants to comb your hair, the rain wants to bathe you, but you prefer some hopeless and deranged idea of "Emptiness." Go for it! Just don't forget that you always have to come back to This.Simon E. wrote:Its not the Buddha that pulls the con. Its all those who demonstrate their rejection of him by taking Refuge in an idea.
I have no idea of Emptiness.
I think you are mistaking me for someone else.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Re: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
The Buddha taught the path to end suffering,
the ignorant fool!
Venerable Huineng pointed at the moon,
the illiterate simpleton!
Mujushinkyo gives direct introduction to the subtle mystery of the true flower
Bow down to the great sage, unequalled in heaven and on earth!!!
the ignorant fool!
Venerable Huineng pointed at the moon,
the illiterate simpleton!
Mujushinkyo gives direct introduction to the subtle mystery of the true flower
Bow down to the great sage, unequalled in heaven and on earth!!!
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Re: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
Jolly good.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Re: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
gregkavarnos wrote:The Buddha taught the path to end suffering,
the ignorant fool!
Venerable Huineng pointed at the moon,
the illiterate simpleton!
Mujushinkyo gives direct introduction to the subtle mystery of the true flower
Bow down to the great sage, unequalled in heaven and on earth!!!
I dont doubt that "the path to end suffering " is an accurate summation of the teachings accredited to the person history knows as the Buddha.
I accept that metaphorically Venerable Huineng pointed at the moon.
I am sure that Mujushinkyo did just as you say.
No argument here.
I have no doubt that those statements of Buddhist doctrine are completely consistent to the system that they seek to elucidate.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.