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kwan
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Date: October 16, 2007 02:16AM "Knowledge can make you old. Compassion is a river of youth that will never run dry. Knowledge can make you tired -- bathe in the water of compassion and you will be refreshed."
- a quote from Thucksey Rinpoche of Ladakh in A JOURNEY IN LADAKH by Andrew Harvey Sharrhan: 
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kwan
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Date: October 16, 2007 08:01PM I gave it some more thought and actually, I would change it to read:
"Knowledge without compassion can make you old"-- -- because I believe knowledge is tremendously important and enlivening. But cold, stark knowledge without compassion is almost worse than ignorance. Sharrhan:
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Lightform
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Date: October 17, 2007 02:07AM Very prudent Kwan.
I like this one : "To thyself be faithful: if in thy heart thou strayest not from truth, without prayer of thine the Gods will keep thee whole." Re: I Like This
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Jgunn
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Date: October 17, 2007 04:53AM very cool  ...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist  Re: I Like This
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ThomasLantern
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Date: October 17, 2007 04:32PM Well, I wouldn't consider someone "knowledgable" if they didn't understand the necessity to be "compassionate", would you, Kwan? Re: I Like This
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kwan
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Date: October 18, 2007 12:32AM Thomas--
Well no, I wouldn't value their knowledge, but in theory you can have a vast amount of knowledge-- of cold, hard facts and of, say, economics or physics-- and not have a drop of compassion. One can even be a genius and be pathologically cruel and uncaring. But anyway... ;-p ... how did I get off on this tangent? Oh yes, I was reading this book about Andrew Harvey's journey in Ladakh and I kind of liked the quote. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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