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Subject: Re: A different value of life; monks and tigers.
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Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 00:01:14 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 10 00:01:14 1985
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> (From the Jataka Tales, as I remember it.)                                      
> A Buddhist monk, walking through the jungle, came to the edge of an
> abyss.  There, below him he saw a tigress with her cubs.  Her
> cubs were starving because she hadn't had anything to eat.
> The monk, heaving practiced compassion with all living beings,
> felt immense compassion with the cubs and flung himself over the
> abyss so that he could be food for the tigress.
> 
> ...A monk, walking through the jungle, was attacked by a tiger.
> The monk, having practiced total awareness, calmly observed as
> the tiger started eating him, starting with his feet.  When the
> tiger reached his knees, the monk reached the first stage of
> enlightenment.  The tiger continued eating.  The monk continued
> being calmly aware of what was happening.  When the tiger reached
> the monk's hips, the monk reached the second stage of enlightenment.
> The tiger continued chewing as the monk continued just being
> calmly aware.  When the tiger reached the monk's heart, the
> monk became fully enlightened and entered nirvana.
> 
> Bernd Riechelmann  (Not affiliated with, nor speaking for U.C. San Diego)
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