tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post1505592264390585195..comments2024-03-25T17:38:01.020+08:00Comments on Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar: Acknowledging Accusations in the Name of DevotionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865608.post-18290162973343119182010-12-12T06:27:32.939+08:002010-12-12T06:27:32.939+08:00Nothing amazing about conventional society's v...Nothing amazing about conventional society's views on Trungpa Rinpoche.<br /><br />What I find heartening is that so many still find the effects of his work illuminating and inspiring, his books are read, I find myself often looking at as many google pictures of him as I can find, he is still so ahead of his time.<br /><br />Christian saying - by their fruits you shall know them (perhaps it's a "ye" there instead of a "you").<br /><br />Trungpa Rinpoche's "fruits" are evident for anyone with eyes to see.<br /><br />If you practice and you read one of his books and practice on what he says, the "fruit" is always there, no need to ask for outside opinion.<br /><br />I linked to one of your "best Tibet-o-centric" blog mentions and found some recommended books and discovered Gendun Chopel.<br /><br />He didn't have to go to the West to get disrespected.<br /><br />And still decades later his books can be purchased on Amazon and various other places.<br /><br />I only read an excerpt of his "adornment" writing of Nagarjuna, but was very struck by the reality that we can't really judge anything here in samsara either by our own senses and even our mind, or by relying on "authority" outside of us.<br /><br />Now I will probably buy the book when I get some $$, because I didn't read what he advised how one should live with this, lol.<br /><br />But what I read did show me that you can't judge someone by their appearing negative qualities. Perhaps it is true that I am so obscured by all the obscurations, but even I can see the fruits of someone like Trungpa Rinpoche, so I got that going for me, as Bill Murray once said.Nightprowlkittyhttp://auldmanhattoe.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com