Wednesday, August 02, 2006

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Realize that whatever arises is the display of the absolute,
The primordial nature, unbroken simplicity.
If you don't cling, whatever arises is naturally freed.
Simply remain in the great equal taste, without rejecting or accepting.

Childish sentient beings, not knowing this,
Treat phenomena as if they were solid and real;
Thus begins a chain of attractions and aversions,
And the great sufferings of existence--a nonexistent masquerade!

The powerful roots are
Ignorance and taking beings and phenomena to exist truly;
Conditioned existence comes about
From getting used to those things.

Nothing to illuminate,
Nothing to eliminate,
Looking perfectly at perfection itself,
Seeing perfection, one is perfectly free.

Shechen Gyaltsap
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7 Comments:

Blogger Don Iannone, D.Div., Ph.D. said...

Another great one, oh non-clinging one. Thanks Dan.

6:40 PM  
Blogger Kathleen said...

I really like the way he put this... it leaves "me" floating...

very nice Danji...

7:03 PM  
Blogger Dan said...

Wasn't that a Jimi Hendrix song?

9:35 PM  
Blogger Don Iannone, D.Div., Ph.D. said...

All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix

There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the theif
There's too much confusion
I can't get no relief
Business men they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None will level on the wine
Nobody of it is worth

No reason to get exited
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us talk falsely now
The hour's getting late

All along the watchtower
The princess kept the view
While all the women came
And went bare feet servants too
Outside in the cold distance
A wild cat did growl
Two riders were aproaching
And the wind began to howl

6:19 AM  
Blogger Dan said...

Well, yeah, that's probably a better one for our purposes, but i was thinking of:

Well, you've got me floatin' around and 'round
Always up, you never let me down
The amazing thing: you turned me on nat'rally
Oh and I kiss you when I please.
You've got me floatin' 'round and 'round

Well, you've got me floatin' around and 'round
Always up, you never let me down
The amazing thing: you turned me on nat'rally
Oh and I kiss you when I please.
You've got me floatin' 'round and 'round

And so on...

8:07 AM  
Blogger Kathleen said...

Ah ha...! Yes! that's it!

you've got me floatin' 'round 'n 'round... and 'round.... and never let me down... you turn me on nat'rally and I kiss you when I please...

Uh huh....

8:52 AM  
Blogger Dan said...

Yowsah!

7:33 PM  

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