Quotes are good aren’t they?
#tibetssecrettemple @explorewellcome
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It was two hours to wait to do the coloured mist thing.
So we didn’t.
This was good too.
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“Birth, sickness, ageing and death flow ever onward without food or bridge… Have you prepared yourself a boat?”
Mahasiddha Padampa Sangye
Blimey, I’ll get on to it…
“Some are bound by renouncing things. Others by these same things gain unsurpassable enlightenment.”
Mahasiddha Saraha
The second one sounds better. I’m that one. The unsurpassable enlightenment thing.
“It is with our emotion that we create demons and gods: those things we don’t want in our lives and world are the demons; those things which we would draw to us are the gods and goddesses. The rest is just scenery.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
My mum and dad walk me and give me food but gods? Hmm.
“I have seen in my wandering a great temples and shrines but none are as blissful as my own body.”
Mahasiddha Saraha
There was a lot to read plus many statues and pictures and drapes.
I did like it.
“The mind is just like a body… You have to nourish it you have to clean it.”
A video at the end.
I mean it was all good stuff.
“They [children] don’t have a moment of silence.”
Video.
Aaah yes. It’s busy being a kid.
And a cultural staffy.
4 Colin Stars,
Cheers,
Martin x
