༄༅༅། །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)
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 ...
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