Our life is like a walk on a path with plenty of crossroads. How do we choose our way? A christian might decide keeping in mind the “ten comandments”, while a buddhist might behave thinking at “the eight paths”… I wonder whether both systems lead to the same destination…
La nostra vita e’ come un sentiero colmo di bivi. Dovendo scegliere una via, un cristiano potrebbe procedere tenendo in considerazione i “dieci comandamenti”. Analogamente, un buddista potrebbe scegliere perfezionando gli “otto sentieri”. Chissa’ se alla fine del percorso si arriva alla stessa meta…
DHARMA CHAKRA
– Now, I wanna know who did it…
– DID YOU DO IT, ASHOKA?!?
– No captain, please believe me, I’m not the one who draws wheels on the walls!
– Wheels on the walls?!’? I don’t care about your wheels on the walls. I wanna know who keeps on drawing these ridiculous moustache on my mouth!
(ASHOKA IS THE FIRST MONK WHO SET IN MOTION THE SYMBOL OF BHUDDISM, A WHEEL, THE DHARMACHAKRA)
(Ashoka e’ il re, poi divenuto monaco, che per primo imparti’ il movimento alla ruota che rappresenta il buddismo, il dharmachakra)