[MD] The Dalai Lama's advice

[Heather Perella]

     [Dallas]
> Some of Chogyam Trungpa's advice was similar. He
> thought the idea of
> physical reincarnation might lend people to become
> too complacent. "Oh I can
> be lazy in this life because I always have another
> life." which is just an
> extension of "Right now i'm not so good, but in the
> future, when I change i'll
> be a lot better."


     I can see this.  I also don't know anything, but
what we call life.  What is death, but a dynamic
change?

     [Dallas] 
> I think that if you really want to understand
> everything implied by
> incarnation, you have to look at the whole picture
> and include things such
> as the emptiness of ego. If one of the fundamental
> truths of Buddhism is
> that the self is inherently empty, then surely there
> is little basis to
> really rely on an idea like a continuous ego that
> pops up life after life.


     I like this.

     [Dallas]
> But, on the other hand, death itself is sort of a
> continuity. The whole
> point is that life is not apart from death.
> So, as we can see, it can't be such a simple thing.

     Death continues to what?  I only know life.  But
what is life?  It is dynamic.  I can experience static
patterns of life, but these patterns are not stuck and
unchanging.  Dynamic quality is involved.

thanks.
SA


       
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