Thanks/ Sengtsan

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Thanks for sharing your many gifts with us Robert.

We love you!

 

Harsha

 

By Sengtsan...

>

> "The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When

>love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.

Make

>the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely

>apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against

>anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease

of

>the mind. When the deep meaning of things is not understood the mind's

>essential peace is disturbed to no avail."

 

 

 

 

mumble cat [mumblecat]

 

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:37:21 Skyeryder wrote:

>While in S. Vietnam - 1968 -> 1970, I visited a bomb out Buddhist Temple

>many times... curious, and needed some explanation, if possible, about many

>things, one was those small books given to me at an airport by dudes in

>orange robes. Anyway, after taking a big bag of fresh fruit to the monk, he

>gave me a tattered booklet by Sengtsan. For the next ten days I will send

>what I have prized for over 30 years.

>

>Smiles... Robert

>

 

 

Thanks for sharing that text with us.

It goes right to the heart of the matter (scrap my post which tried to same

the same thing in a stumbling way). I'm looking forward to the next parts of

the text.

 

I have always found your story from the search in Vietnam very touching. I

looks to me like a natural setting for such a search and you were blessed to

meet the monks and have a heart that was open for the messages that they

shared. Wonderful !

 

 

Love,

 

Amanda.

 

 

 

 

 

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