[Dalai Lama:] We are
haphazardly plunged into impermanence.
Like the essence of beings, stability of Scriptures is an illusion.
Reality slips between our fingers,
and we can't hold onto it. [Carriere:] Does that feeling arise from the certitude that we have of our death? No, because death is simply a passage from one state to another. It's a matter of a dissolution and recomposition at every instant. The world goes on. Nothing fixed, nothing permanent remains. The Scriptures, venerable and sacred as they are, are relative and impermanent, like all things. |
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The Dalai Lama and Jean-Claude Carriere |
Violence and Compassion Doubleday, 1996 |
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English translation of Force du bouddhisme (Editions Robert Laffont-Fixot,1994). Conversations between Bstan-'dsin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, and Jean-Claude Carriere. |
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