Re: Buddhist Comic Book


FourTruths wrote:
http://www.eviltwincomics.com/action/ap1.php?p=1


Yours in the Dharma
HD

Where's the bit where Bodhidharma's actual teachings get quoted? Cuz
rather than saying "screw study of sutras" Bodhidharma brought and
translated the Lankavatara sutra from India to China as well as
teaching other sutras....Here's Bodhidharma in his own words on his
four principles of the path:

"Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its
fruit. I accept it with an open heart and without complaint of
injustice. The sutras say " when you meet with adversity don't be
upset because it makes sense." With such understanding you're in
harmony with reason. And by suffering 'injustice' you enter the Path.
....
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither
waxes nor wanes. Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently
follow the Path.
....
The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When
you seek nothing, you're on the Path.
....
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. By this truth, all
appearances are empty. Defilement and attachment, subject and object
don't exist. The sutras say, "The Dharma includes no being because
it's free from the impurity of being, and the Dharma includes no self
because it's free from the impurity of self." ...But while practicing
the six virtues to eliminate delusion, they practice nothing at all.
This is what's meant by practicing the Dharma.
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Three of his four principles were presented with sutra quotes.


- but, heck, skrew history if if contradicts pop-culture
myth........................

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