seeing what the Buddha teaches: painting by Roerich
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seeing what the the Buddha teaches
text © Raj Arumugam, June 2008; painting: Buddha, the Conqueror by Nicholas Roerich; from “Banners of the East” series. 1925; Tempera on canvas. 73.5 x 118 cm. Private collection, Moscow…Будда победитель. Из серии «Знамёна Востока
the views in this blog are offered as a personal interpretaion of the Buddha's teachings
and these views may not necessarily be correct
and these views may not necessarily be correct
seeing dhukka,
seeing the dissatisfaction, the incompleteness
that is even in our glories and joys;
seeing the rising and the living and the cessation
Siddhartha asked: what is this that is?
and as the Buddha,
like the lotus flower he held forth
in his hand,
he held forth direct insight, the seeing:
not the description and authority
and the traditions and the systems and the methods
and not what others have said or what one believes
not what others teach and say it is this or it is that
or what is revealed and divine and given
but what is seen and seized by oneself;
and not what others have said or what one believes
not what others teach and say it is this or it is that
or what is revealed and divine and given
but what is seen and seized by oneself;
not the mental formations and ideas and conditioning
and not the teaching, any teaching
itself as useless as a raft after one has crossed the waters
and guides who insist on becoming the way, the only way
and fall in love with stages and fancy patterns and grades and leaders
and reverend figures
guides who themselves become lost in the way
enamoured of systems they create;
and so the Buddha held the lotus in his hand:
one sees it oneself
and the seeing is the beginning and the end
the above is offered as a personal interpretaion of the Buddha's teachings and not necessarily correct
seeing what the Buddha teachestext © Raj Arumugam, June 2008; painting: Buddha, the Conqueror by Nicholas Roerich; from “Banners of the East” series. 1925; Tempera on canvas. 73.5 x 118 cm. Private collection, Moscow…Будда победитель. Из серии «Знамёна Востока
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