Sublime

The old koans tell stories of people much like ourselves who eventually liberated themselves from their own fantasies of “Buddha.” It would be a shame to become so enchanted by their example that we use it simply to renew our own dualistic fantasies of delusion and enlightenment.

Hsiao-tsung and is quoted by Hung-lien. Kalpa. A period of time from the creation to the destruction of a universe. Kamalashila(fl. eighth century). Indian monk whose defeat of Chinese monks in Llhasa led to their expulsion

The Buddha once spent a night in a potter’s shed. In the same shed there was a young recluse who had arrived there earlier.1 They did not know each other. The Buddha observed the recluse, and thought to himself: ‘Pleasant are the ways of this young man. It would be good if I should ask about him’. So the Buddha asked him: ‘O bhikkhu,2 in whose name

the Buddha was not a Buddhist. On the contrary, according to the Pali Canon, he requested that his image not be depicted, he worried that he might be worshiped as a god, he allowed people to continue to practice their existing religious rites, and he remained agnostic on such fundamental questions about the creation of the world and what happens