tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post2214766595798606325..comments2024-02-06T22:19:13.028-08:00Comments on Mining Aśvaghoṣa's Gold: SAUNDARANANDA 7.31: Another One GoneMike Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12712396374023835678noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post-39280316368792780802011-01-04T13:43:32.379-08:002011-01-04T13:43:32.379-08:00Thanks Jordan.
My grandpa was a tough steel-worke...Thanks Jordan.<br /><br />My grandpa was a tough steel-worker from the slums of South Wales; when I was young he used to sing to me: <br /><br />Felix kept on walking, <br />Kept on walking still. <br /><br />With his hands behind him,<br />You would always find him. <br /><br />Blow him up with dynamite,<br />But him you could not kill.<br /><br />Felix kept on walking,<br />Kept on walking still...<br /><br />The quote from the Sutra somehow doesn't ring true to me -- who knows what happens when karma ripens at the time of death? <br /><br />What rings more true to my ears is your catchphrase "keeping on"....<br /><br />Thanks for keeping on,<br /><br />MikeMike Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712396374023835678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post-26174224588300300632011-01-04T02:27:33.150-08:002011-01-04T02:27:33.150-08:00Hi Mike,
As you are always on about the ear, I tho...Hi Mike,<br />As you are always on about the ear, I thought you might appreciate this passage from the Surangama Sutra:<br /><br /><i><b>Retributive effects of wrong hearing</b><br /> When karma ripens at the time of death, the evil effects of wrong hearing cause one to see waves that submerge heaven and earth. His spirit then follows them to fall into the unremitting hell where he will experience both unbearable noises that confuse and disturb him and dead silence that make him dispirited. so these waves follow into the organ of hearing and transform it into rebuke and interrogation; into the organ of sight to turn it into thunder, roars (of animals) and jets of poisonous gas; into the organ of smell to change it into rain, fog and showers of venomous insects that cover his whole body; into the organ of taste to transform it into pus, blood, and all sorts of filth; into the organ of touch to turn it into animals, ghosts, excrement, and urine,; and into the organ of the intellect to change it into lightning and hail that strike and break up spirits.</i><br /><br />Keeping on,<br />JordanSlowZenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589294912054724123noreply@blogger.com