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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Asvaghosa - Asvaghosa Biography - Ashwaghosa Bodhisattva - Life History of Asvaghosa

Asvaghosa - Asvaghosa Biography - Ashwaghosa Bodhisattva - Life History of Asvaghosa: "Asvaghosa was once teaching and singing the principles of Dharma to a crowd in the royal city, when the king deliberately fed seven hungry horses to test their reaction to Asvaghosa's teaching. The horses were distressed due to hunger, but they did not touch the food to be relieved of their distress. Instead they understood Asvaghosha's sermon and were relieved. That is how the name Ashwaghosa bodhisattva came into being. It literally means 'horses that listen to Bodhisattva'."

Friday, July 23, 2010

Pater

Pater: "She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants: and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes"