Thursday, August 4, 2016

A Tale of the Profundity (The View of Emptiness by Analogy)

༄༅༅། །གསང་བ་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་ཟབ་མོའི་གཏམ་བརྗོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།།
A Tale of the Profundity
(1st Draft, 08/06/2016)

Still Life Mirror, Daniel Sprick 2004

In this text, 14th-century Buddhist master Chen'nga Lodro Gyaltsen told a story with eighteen analogies to lead the Aspirants of Enlightenment realize and practice the distinction and reconciliation between the realm of prevalent disguise and the realm of genuine fact, also known as “the Conventional” and “the Ultimate.” 

The ineffable mystery of metaphor and analogy seems inevitable on the journey of seeking the sheer being, in other words, the Nature of Dharma, as the Buddha said: 
 a drop of dew, or a floating bubble,
 a flash of lightning, or a flickering lamp,
 a illusion, a phantom, or, a dream ...

Link to English Translation 






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The Three Brides, Jan Toorop (1893)
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