Lama Norbu:
I was just telling Jesse the story of Siddhartha.
Dean Conrad:
That's a beautiful story. A beautiful... myth.
Lama Norbu:
It is one way of telling the truth, and children seem to love it.
Dean Conrad:
Lama Norbu, I have great respect for your culture and your... religion. And I know about the invasion of Tibet, and the tragedies that happened. But I don't believe in reincarnation, and neither does my wife.
Lama Norbu:
[laughing softly]
Why should you?
Lama Norbu:
[Goes over and pours some tea into a porcelain cup]
In Tibet, we think of the mind and the body as the contents and the container.
Lama Norbu:
[Breaks the cup against the edge of the table; all the tea spills out]
Now, the cup is no longer a cup, but what is the tea?
Dean Conrad:
Still tea.
Lama Norbu:
Exactly! In the cup, on the table, or on the floor, it moves from one container to another, but it's still tea. Like the mind after death: it moves from one body to another, but it is still mind!
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