... a few years back Shambhala Press came out with a new edition of Sun Tzu's "Art of War". It was an instant hit. Even places like ___fill in name here___, the military college in USA adopted it. Turns out it was the team in Halifax that worked on translating Tibetan texts ... kind of a fund-raiser for them. (Typical: spend 5 years on 1 project to keep your other projects alive!)
Anyhow, when the book came out the whole community perked up ... we had a series of informal talks and structured workshops, how Sun Tzu tied in with what we had learned in our more conventional dharma studies.
My take away: each of us should strive to become our own "sage general".
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I might have laid this on your already ...
Date: 2008-01-21 01:50 am (UTC)Turns out it was the team in Halifax that worked on translating Tibetan texts ... kind of a fund-raiser for them. (Typical: spend 5 years on 1 project to keep your other projects alive!)
Anyhow, when the book came out the whole community perked up ... we had a series of informal talks and structured workshops, how Sun Tzu tied in with what we had learned in our more conventional dharma studies.
My take away: each of us should strive to become our own "sage general".