Saboro Nossuco e Lao Tsé

Saboro diz que certa vez Lao Tse, o autor do livro de Tao, recebeu a visita de um importante e riquíssimo mercador, que queria muito conhecer o seu habitat e o seu modo de viver.

Assim que pôs os pés na pequena e humilde cabana, o rico mercador esbugalhou os olhos, surpreso com tanta simplicidade e desapego, pois nada havia além de uma cama, uma mesa, duas cadeiras e uma prateleira com livros.

- Onde estão os seus bens, Mestre?

- !!

- Quero dizer, onde estão os seus móveis?

Lao Tse olhou à sua volta e alegremente perguntou:

- E onde estão os seus?

- Os meus?! Mas eu estou aqui só de passagem!

- Eu também… – disse Lao Tse, abrindo um largo sorriso.

(Polaco da Barreirinha)

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Visões do Monte Kailash e peregrinos tibetanos

For Tibetans, pilgrimage refers to the journey from ignorance to enlightenment, from self-centeredness and materialistic preoccupations to a deep sense of the relativity and interconnectedness of all life. The Tibetan word for pilgrimage, neykhor, means "to circle around a sacred place," for the goal of pilgrimage is less to reach a particular destination than to transcend through inspired travel the attachments and habits of inattention that restrict awareness of a larger reality

(...) By traveling to sacred sites, Tibetans are brought into living contact with the icons and energies of Tantric Buddhism. The neys, or sacred sites themselves, through their geological features and the narratives of transformation attached to them, continually remind pilgrims of the liberating power of the Tantric Buddhist tradition

(...) Over time pilgrimage guidebooks were written, giving instructions to pilgrims visiting the holy sites and accounts of their history and significance. These guidebooks, neyigs, empowered Tibet and its people with a sacred geography, a narrated vision of the world ordered and transformed through Buddhist magic and metaphysics.

Kelly, Thomas and Carroll Dunham and Ian Baker; Tibet: Reflections from the Wheel of Life; Abbeville Press; New York; 1993 [fonte]

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