reflection paper
one page paper, double space, must answer the questions with the reading I listed
Readings:
- The Life of Milarepa: Chapters 4-6
Questions
1. What narrative techniques that Tsangnyon Heruka have used in the account of The Life of Milarepa to grip the readers’ imagination and convey his information? Can you list a few?
2. Please respond to this passage from The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: “Reverend Mahakatyayana, do not teach an ultimate reality endowed with activity, production, and destruction! Reverend Mahakatyayana, nothing was ever destroyed, is destroyed, or will ever be destroyed. Such is the meaning of “impermanence.” The meaning of the realization of birthlessness, through the realization of the voidness of the five aggregates, is the meaning of “suffering.” The fact of the nonduality of self and seflessness is the meaning of “selflessness.” That which has no intrinsic substance and no other sort of substance does not burn, and what does not burn is not extinguished; such lack of extinction is the meaning of “peace