"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference"
–Robert Frost
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Reflections on Talks on Buddha's Lists
During a recent Appamada Intensive our students gave talks on Buddha's lists. Here are my reflections on their talks.
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Rhinoceros Fan (an infamous koan) One day Yanguan called to his attendant, "Bring me the rhinoceros fan." The attendant said, ...
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Someone should do a book on that...what happened when you took the road less traveled and was it a good thing or should you have taken the other path???
"As human beings we have the potential to disentangle ourselves from old habits, and the potential to love and care about each other. We have the capacity to wake up and live consciously, but, you may have noticed, we also have a strong inclination to stay asleep. It’s as if we are always at a crossroad, continuously choosing which way to go. Moment by moment we can choose to go toward further clarity and happiness or toward confusion and pain." Pema Chodron's upcoming Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
It looks like a gravity defying path. Perhaps that is what is meant by grave decisions. H.
Actually the vantage point is more about looking at Google Earth on my iphone and seeing the Earth from a satellite.
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