“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, August 8, 2011

Tibetan Grammar 2

Well, I purchased the tome, and have been scouring through volume one, which is what the author, Tony, told me to do. I enjoyed his rapid fire translations of Tsoknyi Rinpoche when I first met him, so over the years I've assembled quite a small collection of his books.

The basic picture is that it is indeed the case Tibetan was formalized so as to deal with Buddhadharma. There are several aspects of Tibetan that make it ideal for a nondual view of things, although I know this somewhat intuitively at present. I shall keep reading.

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