6/7/2023 0 Comments The snow leopard matthiessen![]() ![]() ![]() To glimpse one’s own true nature is a kind of homegoing, to a place East of the Sun, West of the Moon- the homegoing that needs no home, like that waterfall on the supper Suli Gad that turns to mist before touching the earth and rises once again to the sky. In another life-this isn’t what I know, but how I feel- these mountains were my home there is a rising of forgotten knowledge, like a spring from hidden aquifers under the earth. Though we talk little here, I am never lonely I am returned into myself. Also, I love the common miracles-the murmur of my friends at evening, the clay fires of smudgy juniper, the coarse dull food, the hardship and simplicity, the contentment of doing one thing at a time… gradually my mind has cleared itself, and wind and sun pour through my head, as through a bell. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen, Used The Snow Leopard The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) The Snow Leopard The Snow Leopard The Snow Leopard. The book joined a host of icons of Western Buddhist literature that had given us a dharma flavored with the exotic. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air, the sound of earth and heaven in the silence, the requiem birds, the mythic beasts, the flags, great horns, and old carved stones, the silver ice in the black river, the Kang, the Crystal Mountain. In 1978, when The Snow Leopard was first published, the Western sangha was ripe for Matthiessen’s anticlimactic message. “I grow into these mountains like a moss. ![]()
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