[Buddha-l] Beyond Hope

Mike Austin mike at lamrim.org.uk
Sun May 7 10:06:02 MDT 2006


In message <445DFD32.1050100 at cola.iges.org>, curt <curt at cola.iges.org> 
writes
>Is "hope and fear chase each other's tails" really an old Buddhist 
>saying? Maybe one of the old Buddhists on this list can verify that for 
>us?

Attachment and aversion, depicted as the cock and the snake on the wheel 
of life,  chase each others' tales via the tail of the pig of ignorance. 
But on some depictions, they both come from the mouth of the pig and are 
thus side by side.

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin


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