So then, who is the tathagata? -- the one who simply comes and goes, now dying, now not dying, now recovering, now musing, now co-responding?
Here's what old Kalu Rimpoche had to say about this, first as translated from the Tibetan original into English in the form of a block, and then as re-visioned in verse, by a couple of his disciples:
So then, who is the tathagata? -- the one who simply comes and goes, now dying, now not dying, now recovering, now musing, now co-responding?
Here's what old Kalu Rimpoche had to say about this, first as translated from the Tibetan original into English in the form of a block, and then as re-visioned in verse, by a couple of his disciples:
You live in illusion and in
the appearance of things.
There is a Reality. You are
the Reality. But you do not
know it. If you wake up to
that Reality, you will know
that you are nothing, and,
being nothing, that you are
everything. That's all.
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We live in illusion,
in the appearance of things,
oblivious of reality --
oblivious
of who we really are.
When we wake up
to who we really are
we know we are nothing,
and as nothing,
everything.
That's it!