Tao Te Ching
Thaganapa
11th C. CE
A low-caste, compulsive liar, Thaganapa’s entire life depended on his lies, deception, and scams. One day he met a monk who saw through, confronted, and challenged him to lead a better life. Thaganapa asked for teachings and the monk gave him a practice of using deception as an antidote to deception teaching him that everyone’s experience is deceiving from the beginning, that everything is a lie. He meditated on this for 7 years and then on all as emptiness until he became enlightened himself and taught a path of resolving paradox and unifying conflict.
Lineages
Mahasiddha Tibetan Vajrayana Trickster
Eras
Chinese
5 Kingdom of Dali 大理国 (937 – 1253 CE)Northern Song (960 – 1127 CE)
Liao dynasty (907 – 1125 CE)
Western Xia 西夏 (1038 – 1227 CE)
Quotes by Thaganapa (5 quotes)
“Even your belief in deception is a lie.”
Chapters:
65. Simplicity: the Hidden Power of Goodness
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“Experience is neither deception nor truth. Reality is uncreated, indeterminate.”
Chapters:
48. Unlearning
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“It is a fictional world distorted by the mind and the conviction of our society that it is the only reality is an enormous hurdle.”
Chapters:
65. Simplicity: the Hidden Power of Goodness
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“To see truth, contemplate all phenomena as a lie… contemplate all experience as inherently deceptive, all form as inherently deceptive, all sound as inherently deceptive. In time, you will discover that even your belief in deception is a lie.”
Chapters:
49. No Set Mind
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“To see truth, contemplate all phenomenon as a lie.”
Chapters:
40. Returning
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