When our friend the Tibetan Studies scholar teaches us this word,རྟེན་འབྲེལ་, she puts her hands together, touchingfingertips. It means what the Buddha said: If this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist,that also ceases to … | Luisa A. Igloria May 2 | When our friend the Tibetan Studies scholar teaches us this word,
རྟེན་འབྲེལ་, she puts her hands together, touching fingertips. It means what the Buddha said:
If this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist. That is, every thing,
every experience, comes into being from its dependence on and relationship with other things. Just as fog skims off the oyster- colored waters of the bay to later pearl
in the skinfolds of heavy rainclouds, just as bitter rinds of fruit retreat from the hungry mouth—
so too do we live in tensile connection to other beings. So I will rejoice to learn of your happiness,
and grieve with you because your sorrow is our common sorrow. Though I am often lonely,
I am aware of a brighter filament still at the edge of my consciousness: I know
it's there, even when it's not there. And I refuse to believe that even hatred or emptiness
root in only one place, with no further promise of changing into something else. Someone once
told me that if I forget to pay attention, I might miss small signs and portents altering the color of
an otherwise ordinary world. I might think this moment is all there is, though the wheel never stops turning. | | | |
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