[Buddha-l] Funky tulku

[Richard Hayes]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 09:37, Bruce G. Seidner Ph.D. wrote:

> What am I missing here? The music clip is "Reincarnation." But this
> truly "precious" kid is singing Vajrasattva's short mantra (OM Benza
> Sato Hung) and chasing a pretty toga clad, but vanishing girl in the
> woods, followed by a butterfly.
>
> Is there something that is supposed to be unappealing about being
> driven like this through endless rounds of birth, sickness, old age and
> death?

Sure, it may look appealing when you look at it superficially. But what this 
clip fails to reveal is all the dukkha that would unfold if you ever caught 
up with the pretty toga-clad wood nymph.  

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico