6 January 2010
Consciousness
My friend Piyali shared these stories with me, and I couldn’t resist passing them on:)
SHOW ME YOUR EGO-MIND
One of the most famous legends spun about Bodhidharma is that the seeker Hui-k’o patiently stood deep in the nocturnal snow outside the old master’s cave, yearning for instruction. He finally hacked off his own left forearm and [...]
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19 December 2009
Consciousness
My grandfather took me to the fish pond on the farm when I was about seven, and he told me to throw a stone into the water. He told me to watch the circles created by the stone. Then he asked me to think of myself as that stone person.
“You may create lots of splashes [...]
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