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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   dagnabit wrote:   
   > liaM wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I once asked Dagpo Rinpoche whether Buddhas suffered from "the   
   >> malady of the fruit", the name Tibetans give to cancer.  He took   
   >> a while to think and answered, no, Buddhas never get cancer.   
   >>   
   >> Yes, but since I know something about the subject, Buddhas do   
   >> get heart diseases.  It's a common ailment among alpha males, no?   
   >   
   >nisargadatta maharaj got cancer as did ramama maharshi   
   >and several others in India who were considered self realized,   
   >and to me, those two were about as close to being a buddha   
   >that one might ever see.   
   >   
   >I don't think that things that afflict the physical are necessarily   
   >absent when one is self realized. some get healing powers, others   
   >don't.   
      
   "Sixteen   
      
   Empty yourself of everything.   
   Let the mind become still.   
   The ten thousand things rise and fall   
   while the Self watches their return.   
   They grow and flourish and then return to the source.   
   Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.   
   The way of nature is unchanging.   
   Knowing constancy is insight.   
   Not knowing constancy leads to disaster.   
   Knowing constancy, the mind is open.   
   With an open mind, you will be openhearted.   
   Being openhearted, you will act royally.   
   Being royal, you will attain the divine.   
   Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao.   
   Being at one with the Tao is eternal.   
   And though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away."   
      
   Buddha is not born.   
   Buddha does not die.   
      
   The Buddha abides.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)