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Q:
It
seems to me that we don't always know what the words that
we use mean. For example, everybody uses the word "meditation."
What does it mean–not only its definition, but what is
included in that word; to what does it correspond?
A: Rinpoche would like to make it clear that
the term "meditation" is used in the English language–but,
personally, he has no idea what it really means. He is just
repeating the word he has been taught by some translators.
In Tibetan, the word corresponding to meditation, "sgom,"
actually means "becoming familiar" or "familiarizing."
–A Conversation with Jamgön Kongtrül, Rinpoche
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MATERIAL
FOR THOUGHT #12
- On
Growth Centers
John Pentland
- A
Talk by John Blofeld
- A
Conversation with Jamgön Kongtrül, Rinpoche
- The
Life and Teaching of Tierno Bokar
- The
Present Life: A Dialogue with Pauline de Dampierre
- Excerpts
from a Meeting with G.I. Gurdjieff
- A
Brief History of Time
by
Stephen W. Hawking
- A
Letter to Stephen W. Hawking and Response
- A
Walk with a White Bushman
by
Laurens van der Post
- The
Ink Dark Moon
by
Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu
translated
by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani
- In
the Shadow of a Rainbow
by
Robert Franklin Leslie
- A
Leg to Stand On
by
Oliver Sacks
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