EPISODE NINETEEN: Rupa – Form and Beyond

EPISODE NINETEEN: Rupa – Form and Beyond

Unlike most professionals, tulkus are not given job descriptions. All they have to go on are centuries of insidiously accumulated expectations and mountains of unfair assumptions. Once a child has been labelled a ‘tulku’ (a recognised reincarnation of a Tibetan...
EPISODE EIGHTEEN: Waiting for Fudo

EPISODE EIGHTEEN: Waiting for Fudo

Mr. Mao was a tall, broad-shouldered, well built Chinese man. Already in his seventies, he was bald except for an ear-to-ear fringe of thin grey hair, yet his fresh, rosy complexion and puckish grin gave him the air of a mischievous teenager who was always getting...
EPISODE SEVENTEEN: Undoing the Continuous Knot

EPISODE SEVENTEEN: Undoing the Continuous Knot

O! brother moon, what do you eat? “I eat eggs,” says the moon. Where are the eggs? “They’re on the table,” says the moon. Where is the table? “It was burned by the fire,” says the moon. Where is the fire? “It was extinguished by water.” Where is the water? “Drunk by...
EPISODE FIFTEEN: Crushes

EPISODE FIFTEEN: Crushes

EPISODE FIFTEEN: Crushes Obsession and infatuation can be positive but it depends on who is infatuated and the person who is the object of infatuation. If you are infatuated by Siddhartha, you are very lucky. To have that feeling toward someone sublime means you have...