[Under the moon shadow] 1/20/2015 10:00:00 AM

[Frederic Lecut]

 

I would like to share with you his Matthieu Ricard's thought of the Week, directly from his Newsletter - suscribe to it !

 

Getting butter from milk is only possible because milk already contains cream. No one ever made butter by churning water. The prospector looks for gold in rocks and not in wood chips. Likewise, the quest for perfect enlightenment only makes sense because the buddha-nature is already present in every being. Without that nature, all efforts would be futile. 

 

JAMGÖN KONGTRUL LODRÖ THAYE (1813-1899)

 

 

 

 

Matthieu Ricard is a Tibetan Buddhist Monk, author and Photographer born in France in 1946. After completing his doctoral thesis in Molecular Genetics in 1972, he decided to forsake his scientific career and concentrate on the practice of Tibetan Buddhism. He has been the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama since 1989.

 

 

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Posted By Frederic Lecut to Under the moon shadow at 1/20/2015 10:00:00 AM