My old university research paper about the
Buddhist teachings of a famous ancient Chinese monk from the 7th century.
Funny how I wrote this 20 years ago, as an undergraduate student in year four, for a course “History of Chinese Thought”, long before I became a “dharma girl”
(in the Tibetan tradition).
I didn’t know anything about anything but the professor did say to me:
I didn’t know anything about anything but the professor did say to me:
“Final exam, you wrote the best answer, better than my graduate students, on the
emptiness question – on the definition of nothingness. ”
Ha ha: I was that girl who got good grades in school. And now, in this our Dog-eat-doggy 21st century, I still haven’t learned all the tricks to “empty” my two mental obscurations – afflictive and knowledge – directly.
Like The Elephant Man, I fight for my human dignity, I cry,
Lama says, “We are all in jail, our minds, in
jail. Samsara Jail . You, must get out of jail, samsara
jail. Study and practice the Buddha-dharma.
Your mind, get out of jail.”
Ha ha: I was that girl who got good grades in school. And now, in this our Dog-eat-doggy 21st century, I still haven’t learned all the tricks to “empty” my two mental obscurations – afflictive and knowledge – directly.
Like The Elephant Man, I fight for my human dignity, I cry,
“I
have afflictions, but I am not an affliction: I
am a human being.
With feelings. Therefore, I
am not an object of abandonment.”
This our troubled times, I
fight for the dignity of all SSBs,
“You are not an affliction: you
are a suffering sentient being.
Therefore, you are
also not an object of abandonment.”
我是有情 、雖然「我」有煩惱、我並不是「煩惱」所以、我不是「拋棄之物 」妳們也不是 。
