Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Return of the deadly Yakshi (female ogre)

Ashley Wells, Seven, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; Q13 Fox News, Seattle

Yaksha Alavaka orders the Buddha out (sleuteltotinzicht.nl); Yakshi Huckaby Yakshinis are often depicted as beautiful and voluptuous, with wide hips, narrow waists, broad shoulders, and exaggerated, spherical breasts.

The girl, who was a sophomore at the school at the time of the attack last Oct. 24, is accused of stabbing freshmen girls April Lutz and Bekah Staudacher. Lutz suffered severe, life-threatening injuries, and Staudacher suffered a large cut to her arm and was stabbed in the back.

A surveillance video from inside the school on the day of the stabbings shows the two victims walking into the restroom. Moments later, the [yakshi] girl accused of stabbing them can be seen, wearing a hood, entering the restroom. Students hear the attack and gather outside. Then paramedics are shown removing a victim on a stretcher. More

*The Alavaka Sutra
Alavaka asked questions he learned from his parents, which had been handed down generation to generation. He had forgotten the answers but had preserved the questions by scrawling them down on gold leaves:

  • "What is the greatest wealth?"
  • "What when well mastered brings the highest bliss?"
  • "What is the sweetest of tastes?
  • "What is the supreme-life?"

The Buddha answered:

  • "The greatest wealth is confidence (faith)."
  • "The Dharma well mastered brings the highest bliss (nirvana)."
  • "The truth is the sweetest taste."
  • "The life wisely led is supreme."

Alavaka asked many more questions, which the Buddha answered to his delight, then one final question:

  • "Passing from this world to the next, how does one not grieve?"

The Buddha replied:

  • "One who possesses these four virtues -- truthfulness, sīla, fearlessness born of love, and generosity -- grieves not after passing from this world."

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