"In Tibet we think of the mind and the body as the content and the container." He holds up a cup of tea, then shatters it, "The cup is no longer the cup, but what is the tea?" He pauses, "Like the mind after death, the tea moves from one container to the next, but it is still tea." Lama Norbu wipes up the liquid from the floor and squeezes it out. "Still tea," he chuckles. (Little Buddha)
Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in pursuit of finding the reincarnation of his dead teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse Conrad, Raju, a waif from Kathmandu, and an upper class Indian girl. Together, they travel to Bhutan where the three candidates must undergo a test to reveal which is the true reincarnation. Intermixed with this, is the …show more content…
His father, King Suddhodana, is sheltering him from all unpleasant parts of life such as elderly, sick or dying people. Gradually however, Siddhartha begins to wonder about the world "out there," and one day sneaks outside the palace gate. Buddhists will of course recognize this as the well-known story of the Four Gates. In one commanding scene, he encounters a funeral pyre and suddenly, as he watches the flames consume the body, the truth of impermanence, of his and of every one's ultimate demise becomes overwhelming to the young …show more content…
Then one day he overhears a music teacher instructing his student not to pull the strings of his instrument too tight or leave them too loose. Siddhartha gives up asceticism, realizing that the path to enlightenment lies on the middle course. As he grows in his journey, he learns profound truths about the nature of life, consciousness, and reality. Lama Norbu tells the three children the final segment of the drama of Siddhartha and they magically enter the story. Meditating beneath a tree, Siddhartha ultimately, battles Mara, who constantly tries to distract and destroy Siddhartha. Through the final complete realization of the misleading nature of his own ego, Siddhartha achieves enlightenment, thus becomes the
Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in pursuit of finding the reincarnation of his dead teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse Conrad, Raju, a waif from Kathmandu, and an upper class Indian girl. Together, they travel to Bhutan where the three candidates must undergo a test to reveal which is the true reincarnation. Intermixed with this, is the …show more content…
His father, King Suddhodana, is sheltering him from all unpleasant parts of life such as elderly, sick or dying people. Gradually however, Siddhartha begins to wonder about the world "out there," and one day sneaks outside the palace gate. Buddhists will of course recognize this as the well-known story of the Four Gates. In one commanding scene, he encounters a funeral pyre and suddenly, as he watches the flames consume the body, the truth of impermanence, of his and of every one's ultimate demise becomes overwhelming to the young …show more content…
Then one day he overhears a music teacher instructing his student not to pull the strings of his instrument too tight or leave them too loose. Siddhartha gives up asceticism, realizing that the path to enlightenment lies on the middle course. As he grows in his journey, he learns profound truths about the nature of life, consciousness, and reality. Lama Norbu tells the three children the final segment of the drama of Siddhartha and they magically enter the story. Meditating beneath a tree, Siddhartha ultimately, battles Mara, who constantly tries to distract and destroy Siddhartha. Through the final complete realization of the misleading nature of his own ego, Siddhartha achieves enlightenment, thus becomes the