The Garden - A Parable

Geshe Michael Roach

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2000

208 páginas

6h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780385497893

With The Garden, centuries of Tibetan Buddhist wisdom are brought to life for readers by one of its greatest Western teachers, Michael Roach. Through a parable in which a young man is brought into a mystical garden by a beautiful embodiment of Wisdom, Roach presents the pantheon of great Tibetan teachers. The nameless seeker lured to the garden meets the dominant historical figures who have contributed fundamental teachings to Tibetan Buddhism, such as Tsong Khapa, the first Dalai Lama, and Master Kamalashila. Unique among works of Buddhism now available, The Garden is destined to become a classic for its lucid revelation of the secrets of the Tibetan tradition and for the wisdom Geshe Michael Roach evokes.

Resenhas (1)

5 (Perfeito)

"and so you see, that for an imprint to be perfect, for a seed, whether it be sublime or evil, to be planted perfectly and deeply, and thus grow into a major event in our future, then the deed or word or thought which plants it must be directed at a significant object; and we must have a clear motivation and premeditation; and we must know the object for what it is; and we must have a steady emotion as we commit the deed; and we must actually undertake the deed; and then complete it as we wished, and be aware of the completion, and take ownership of the deed. A seed planted with all these conditions fulfilled is a deep and mighty seed."

"For this I presume that we would have to seek to preserve the lives of all creatures, human or animal; that we would have to strictly respect the property of others; encourage the virtue of honoring one's commitment to one's spouse or partner; speak always and only the truth; strive to bring others closer to one another; use sweet and respectful language to all those around us; talk only of things which are meaningful and beneficial to our lives; take joy in sharing, and in seeing others get what they wish for; hope and work for the success of others in their lives; and finally train ourselves to devote the rare, precious, and numbered moments of thought that we can think in this life to ideas which are of true benefit to ourselves and all those around us. This would plant the imprints for, I suppose, a near paradise, where the exact opposite of all the horrors you have described tonight would greet us at every turn.
A paradise not only around you'' he said happily, animated in a way he had not yet that night displayed, ''but within your own mind."

"Taking life; stealing; sexual misconduct; lying; divisive talk; harsh words; idle talk; craving what belong to others; taking pleasure in other's misfortunes; holding on to harmful ideas;
Protecting life; respecting other's property; respecting other's partners; telling only the truth; bringing people together; kind and gentle speech; saying only meaningful things; helping others get what they want; helping others in their misfortune; examining my beliefs, and keeping only those that are true and good."

"if seeds were planted very consciously and sincerely they could ripen relatively quickly."

"what it was that had blocked me from seeing that the healthiest and holiest manner to spend the day together was to think of each other's need, and supply those needs as best we could."

"The very important details of how imprints are stored in the mind, and how they ripen there, I discovered again in the discussion by Tsong Khapa the Great upon the beliefs of the Mind-Only School, in his Clarification of the True Thought."