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strongest <strong>and</strong> most unrestrained. How much of the<br />

best in human culture was then destroyed, how<br />

many minds were perverted by hatred, corrupted by<br />

lust, or overwhelmed by insanity?<br />

With such inward thoughts arising from the outward<br />

circumstances, the mind was turned towards<br />

meditative thoughts of our Teacher's fearlessness,<br />

as we approached Mr. Chen's Five Trees Hermitage.<br />

He had already announced that the subject would<br />

center about the prajnaparamita <strong>and</strong> its meditations.<br />

Could the contrast be greater? The insecure world<br />

boiling with the poisons <strong>and</strong> the tranquil perfect<br />

wisdom of crystal clarity. Would that more people<br />

learned this supreme way of disentanglement from<br />

the world, not wars but this medicine, antidote to all<br />

the poisons, this sublime perfection of wisdom.<br />

A. Our Homage<br />

"This is again threefold," said Mr. Chen.<br />

"First, why do we honor Milarepa? His renunciation<br />

was complete, <strong>and</strong> besides this, he was accomplished in<br />

sunyata. He is a good example for us: both Hinayana<br />

<strong>and</strong> Mahayana combined in the practice <strong>and</strong> realization<br />

of one person.<br />

Once he met two <strong>Buddhist</strong> scholars discussing sunyata.<br />

Neither of them had any true realization of the doctrines<br />

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