Quote:
Originally posted by Ian
"Just as a man who has fallen into a heap of filth ought to seek the great pond of water covered with lotuses, which is near by: even so seek thou for the great deathless lake of Nirvana to wash off the defilement of wrong. If the lake is not sought, it is not the fault of the lake."
Thus:
Imbued by the spirit of Buddha, I humbly submit my 1,000th post in agreement and consider my post well spent.
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I am humbled to have inspired such a thing.
I put that in my siggy because it's something I got from the gospel of Buddah while reading it and I have not been able to get that passage out of my head ever since. When I first saw it I had to stop reading for a few minutes to think about it. Almost every time I ponder that bit of scripture I get something new out of it. Even just now I got something else out of it. A passage that powerful deserves a place where it can be seen as often as possible, IMHO.
BTW, congrats on 1K!
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"Just as a man who has fallen into a heap of filth ought to seek the great pond of water covered with lotuses, which is near by: even so seek thou for the great deathless lake of Nirvana to wash off the defilement of wrong. If the lake is not sought, it is not the fault of the lake."