Three verses of fake humility

It is not due to peerless humbleness
that I forsake spiritual and mundane status.
I forsake it because I stubbornly crave recognition.

It is not the case that I am relaxed in the true nature
and thus strive so inconsistently and am burdened by effort.
I am burdened because I am lazy, and that’s just a shame.

It is not that I am well versed in excuses,
but I do understand dharma.
So I can’t deceive myself and others.

Zhigpo Padma Dorje

buddhistdoor

Buddhist Artifacts Unearthed From 700-year-old Shipwreck in China

A Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) shipwreck, discovered preserved in the silt and mud of a dried up riverbed in eastern China after more than 700 years, has revealed a trove of ancient treasures, including a Buddhist shrine and other Buddhist artifacts, a recently published report by archaeologists revealed.

archeology

tzal.org

Buddhism and piracy: ethics for post-scarcity copyright infringement

How should we face the ethics of copying as Buddhists.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, copyleft

LAREVIEWOFBOOKS

A Brilliant Mind’s Pauses: The Fiction of Russia’s Greatest Poet

Bob Blaisdell praises the prose of Russia’s greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin.

YouTube

Allen Ginsberg - Father Death Blues

Allen Ginsberg sings “Father Death Blues”, and relates two anecdotes on death involving his guru Trungpa Rinpoche. From the documentary “A Poet on the Lower ...

Allen Ginsberg, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

If you see any merit on this website's content, please spread the word—comment and share on social networks. It is a practice of generosity that helps my own practice of generosity in producing and making this content available.

tzal.org is produced by
Padma Dorje.

•

email

•

newsletter

•

PayPal

•

Patreon

all content, design and coding by Eduardo Pinheiro, 2003-2024
(except where explicitly otherwise indicated)

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0