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In Melbourne last night were two visiting pointers to the mind.
Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book Of Living and Dying, gave a public teaching at the Collingwood Town Hall. In considering the nature of mind, one of Rinpoche's favorite analogies is the film projector, with it's passing image filters and it's projections, behind which, uninvolved, is a pure intense light. He quotes the summary of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche:
Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book Of Living and Dying, gave a public teaching at the Collingwood Town Hall. In considering the nature of mind, one of Rinpoche's favorite analogies is the film projector, with it's passing image filters and it's projections, behind which, uninvolved, is a pure intense light. He quotes the summary of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche:
Samsara is mind turned outwardly,
lost in its projections.
Nirvana is mind turned inwardly,
recognising its true nature.
During last night's teaching there were references to clear seeing and to empty projections, empty prejudices ...
On the way to the Sogyal Rinpoche teaching, this student of mind, already aware the Dirty Projectors were also in Melbourne, photographed their poetsoftheinterverse listing outside the hi-fi bar.
What a marvelous work of name, he thought again. He imagined them taking the stage and declaring to their followers :
On the way to the Sogyal Rinpoche teaching, this student of mind, already aware the Dirty Projectors were also in Melbourne, photographed their poetsoftheinterverse listing outside the hi-fi bar.
What a marvelous work of name, he thought again. He imagined them taking the stage and declaring to their followers :
Hi, we're Dirty Projectors.
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...
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