The Tibetan Book of Everyday Wisdom: A Thousand Years of Sage Advice by Newman Beth Thupten Jinpa

Author:Newman, Beth,Thupten, Jinpa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wisdom Publications

The colophon indicates five particulars: the text that was composed, the ones who requested for it, the author, the place of composition, and the scribe. Once again, the author prays that the text may be of benefit to others, when he writes:

Through this may all people be able to easily differentiate between the wise and the foolish.324

To sum up:

The superb behavior of holy and respectable people

brings together the norms of religion and society.

Utterly marvelous wise sayings

clearly teach this without confusion.

The method of the holy Dharma is subtle and profound.

Because those with inferior minds cannot handle it,

there are many conceited scholars without learning

and counterfeit religious teachings that deceive. [312]

Therefore fortunate people with clear minds

should hold up this lamp of good advice,

and without being deceived by false friends,

seek out holy wise men with much learning.

After those who aspire to be wise properly rely on wise men,

the wealth of proper learning accumulates with interest

and good qualities increase like lakes in summer rains.

Then how can the fame of being wise be far away?

Being able to precisely distinguish

fools who brag about being wise men

from the wise who hide what they know

is also from the force of virtue accumulated previously.

This method is set forth in an abbreviated fashion

based on texts of absolute reliability:

the previous-birth stories of the Buddha

and the illustrative stories of the Vinaya and so on.

As a result of the merits of my endeavor herein,

may all beings rely on a wise, ethical, and kind spiritual friend

and thus perfect their study, contemplation, and meditation

on the vast ocean of spiritual texts and practice.

This work entitled Rays of Sunlight, a commentary on Ganden Wise Sayings: A Bouquet of White Lotuses, which is a treatise examining the wise and the foolish, was written in response to a persistent urging by the learned spiritual friend Naimang Lharampa Geshé Ngawang Tenzin. It was composed by the lazy monk Yangchen Gawai Lodrö, whose head rests on the dust below the feet of many eminent scholars and practitioners.

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