Comments on: Leaving Your Mark http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/ Earth and All The Offbeat Things That Happen On It Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:40:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: monk’s footprints « londonlinklist http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/comment-page-7/#comment-565519 monk’s footprints « londonlinklist Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:40:52 +0000 http://www.offbeatearth.com/?p=1350#comment-565519 [...] http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/ Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...] [...] http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/ Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]

]]> By: Rabga http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/comment-page-7/#comment-559147 Rabga Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:58:25 +0000 http://www.offbeatearth.com/?p=1350#comment-559147 It is very funny, strange and pity to see complete strangers to the monk arguing about his prostrations while he knows nothing about it and am sure won't give a damn if he even knows. I am also a Tibetan Buddhist Monk in India and I'll leave you, with your insults to the perticular dedicated monk, with a quote in a buddhist text : Even when someone who is your equal or inferior, Driven by arrogance seeks to disparage you, To place him on the crown of your head With the same respect you would accord your guru is the practice of a Buddhisatva. I've read all the comments and I sincerely THANK ALL THE CRITICISERS for letting me practice my patience. With that, I leave another quote from the same text: For a buddhisatva who seeks a wealth of virtue, Every harm perpetrator is like a precious treasure. Therefore, without feeling irritation at all, To cultivate patience is the practice of a Buddhisatva. THANK YOU It is very funny, strange and pity to see complete strangers to the monk arguing about his prostrations while he knows nothing about it and am sure won’t give a damn if he even knows. I am also a Tibetan Buddhist Monk in India and I’ll leave you, with your insults to the perticular dedicated monk, with a quote in a buddhist text :
Even when someone who is your equal or inferior,
Driven by arrogance seeks to disparage you,
To place him on the crown of your head
With the same respect you would accord your guru is the practice of a Buddhisatva.
I’ve read all the comments and I sincerely THANK ALL THE CRITICISERS for letting me practice my patience. With that, I leave another quote from the same text:
For a buddhisatva who seeks a wealth of virtue,
Every harm perpetrator is like a precious treasure.
Therefore, without feeling irritation at all,
To cultivate patience is the practice of a Buddhisatva.
THANK YOU

]]> By: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Photoshop! « deardoodle http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/comment-page-7/#comment-542957 I Can’t Believe It’s Not Photoshop! « deardoodle Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:56:13 +0000 http://www.offbeatearth.com/?p=1350#comment-542957 [...] dictate that wood does not act like cement as this picture might have you believe. Instead, these footprints were moulded by a monk who stood in this very same spot to pray every day for twenty [...] [...] dictate that wood does not act like cement as this picture might have you believe. Instead, these footprints were moulded by a monk who stood in this very same spot to pray every day for twenty [...]

]]> By: 21 Images You Won’t Believe Aren’t Photosphopped http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/comment-page-7/#comment-534913 21 Images You Won’t Believe Aren’t Photosphopped Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:10:50 +0000 http://www.offbeatearth.com/?p=1350#comment-534913 [...] Via Offbeatearth.com [...] [...] Via Offbeatearth.com [...]

]]> By: Robert http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/comment-page-7/#comment-531342 Robert Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:07:25 +0000 http://www.offbeatearth.com/?p=1350#comment-531342 To help clarify things a bit. Each 'prayer' would be either a single prostration (where the monk is kneeling down from a standing position) or a recitation of a Mantra. So each 'prayer' is only a few seconds long. As the monk is performing the physical kneeling and prostrating he will also be saying a mantra and visualising a something similar to what is found on a thangka. The purpose of prostrations in particular (apart from the fact it is a form of moving meditation) is that it helps to reduce pride. To help clarify things a bit. Each ‘prayer’ would be either a single prostration (where the monk is kneeling down from a standing position) or a recitation of a Mantra. So each ‘prayer’ is only a few seconds long.

As the monk is performing the physical kneeling and prostrating he will also be saying a mantra and visualising a something similar to what is found on a thangka. The purpose of prostrations in particular (apart from the fact it is a form of moving meditation) is that it helps to reduce pride.

]]> By: LOL http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/comment-page-7/#comment-522795 LOL Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:32:15 +0000 http://www.offbeatearth.com/?p=1350#comment-522795 To Hugo Filch, The only thing that is MORE STUPID than your argument is your lack of spell checking. Stupider is a word, but my god it is terrible grammar. To Hugo Filch,
The only thing that is MORE STUPID than your argument is your lack of spell checking.
Stupider is a word, but my god it is terrible grammar.

]]> By: Common Sense Dictates http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/comment-page-7/#comment-508279 Common Sense Dictates Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:32:12 +0000 http://www.offbeatearth.com/?p=1350#comment-508279 Proof that it is far past time to trim them toe nails! They make a stone to polish those calluses off too! Proof that it is far past time to trim them toe nails!
They make a stone to polish those calluses off too!

]]> By: Cthulhu http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/comment-page-7/#comment-500011 Cthulhu Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:29:36 +0000 http://www.offbeatearth.com/?p=1350#comment-500011 A waste of his life? Praying for others? The hell are you on about? A buddhist does not pray or follow his religion at all in the sense that a christian does. When they say he prays, he is really doing a form of meditation. The goal of buddhism is enlightenment and inner peace, not the idea of getting into a heaven or spreading his religion... Waste of his life... What an utter fool. A waste of his life? Praying for others? The hell are you on about? A buddhist does not pray or follow his religion at all in the sense that a christian does. When they say he prays, he is really doing a form of meditation. The goal of buddhism is enlightenment and inner peace, not the idea of getting into a heaven or spreading his religion… Waste of his life… What an utter fool.

]]> By: Anthony http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/comment-page-7/#comment-460823 Anthony Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:28:02 +0000 http://www.offbeatearth.com/?p=1350#comment-460823 It's interesting to me that so many people leaving comments about this monk's life being a waste have decided unequivocally that his life has been a waste, even as it is spent in prayer for others. I wish I could say with confidence that the way another man has spent his life is a waste, because it must mean that my own life is a universal model for perfection. That is the only way I could conceive of someone else's life being a waste - but so far I have not seen a model of the perfect life, and am inclined to think that this monk's pursuit of prayer is far humbler than anything I have ever achieved. It’s interesting to me that so many people leaving comments about this monk’s life being a waste have decided unequivocally that his life has been a waste, even as it is spent in prayer for others. I wish I could say with confidence that the way another man has spent his life is a waste, because it must mean that my own life is a universal model for perfection. That is the only way I could conceive of someone else’s life being a waste – but so far I have not seen a model of the perfect life, and am inclined to think that this monk’s pursuit of prayer is far humbler than anything I have ever achieved.

]]> By: Hugo Fitch http://www.offbeatearth.com/leaving-your-mark/comment-page-7/#comment-450657 Hugo Fitch Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:23:37 +0000 http://www.offbeatearth.com/?p=1350#comment-450657 The only thing stupider than a Buddhist is an Obama voter. There is no chance in hell he wore those marks out into the wood. Please keep Buddhism out of America. While it is not the immediate threat to our greatness that Islam (spit) is, this kind of mindless pacifism has no place within our shores. The only thing stupider than a Buddhist is an Obama voter. There is no chance in hell he wore those marks out into the wood. Please keep Buddhism out of America. While it is not the immediate threat to our greatness that Islam (spit) is, this kind of mindless pacifism has no place within our shores.

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