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 (DIR) Post #AW14KwoRUSmgdn4Pnk by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
       2023-05-25T14:33:17.244233Z
       
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       >One may think: “We concede that our decisions are unreliable, but when we follow the decisions of the Buddha, we are infallible.” Then who decided that the Buddha is infallible? If you say, “The great scholars and adepts like Nagarjuna decided that he is infallible,” then who decided that Nagarjuna is infallible? If you say, “The Foremost Lama Tsong khapa decided it,” then who knows that the Foremost Lama is infallible? If you say, “Our kind and peerless lama, the excellent and great so and so decided,” then infallibility, which depends on your excellent lama, is decided by your own mind. In fact, therefore, it is a tiger who vouches for a lion, it is a yak who vouches for a tiger, it is a dog who vouches for a yak, it is a mouse who vouches for a dog, it is an insect who vouches for a mouse. Thus, an insect is made the final voucher for them all.
       
 (DIR) Post #AW15SbacNf055corNg by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
       2023-05-25T14:45:53.849338Z
       
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       Chophel is one of the exceptions to my general stance re Tibetan works on madhyamaka, probably the most recent & innovative philosopher of that tradition, and a good poet besides. Check out the Madman's Middle Way by Donald S Lopez, it has a translation of his Ornament of Nagarjuna's Thought >To the sharp weapons of the demons, you offered delicate flowers in return. When the enraged Devadatta pushed down a boulder [to kill you], you practiced silence. Son of the Śākyas, incapable of casting even an angry glance at your enemy, what intelligent person would honor you as a friend for protection from the great enemy, fearful saṃsāra?