Saturday, August 26, 2006

The Anti-Brahmin


He knows his former lives.

He sees heavens and states of woe,

has attained the ending of birth,

is a sage who has mastered full-knowing,

his mastery totally mastered:

he's what I calla brahmin

-Dhammapada 423, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu


I must be the anti-brahmin, I haven’t attained any of the above.
I don’t know my former life … unless we mean the last 40 years.
I don’t see heaven and states of woe … unless you mean the glitter of my daughter’s eye, and the woes of the war(s)™
Haven’t attained the ending of birth. As far as I know.
Definitely NOT an all-knowing sage.
I haven’t even identified my ‘mastery’ … let alone mastered it.
I am the anti-brahmin

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