Monday, 9. January 2006, 18:14:51
The Path to purity.
When you see with discernment,
'All fabrications are inconstant'--
you grow disenchanted with stress.
This is the path to purity.
When you see with discernment,
'All fabrications are stressful'--
you grow disenchanted with stress.
This is the path to purity.
When you see with discernment,
'All phenomena are not-self'--
you grow disenchanted with stress.
This is the path
to purity.
Dhammapada
When you see with discernment,
'All fabrications are inconstant'--
you grow disenchanted with stress.
This is the path to purity.
When you see with discernment,
'All fabrications are stressful'--
you grow disenchanted with stress.
This is the path to purity.
When you see with discernment,
'All phenomena are not-self'--
you grow disenchanted with stress.
This is the path
to purity.
Dhammapada
Saturday, 28. January 2006, 18:24:47
Understanding Meditation: Mindfulness
It is crucial for you to understand what meditation is. It is not some special posture, and it's not just a set of mental exercises. Meditation is the cultivation of mindfulness and the application of that mindfulness once cultivated. You do not have to sit to meditate. You can meditate while washing the dishes. You can meditate in the shower, or roller skating, or typing letters. Meditation is awareness, and it must be applied to each and every activity of one's life. This isn't easy.
Henepola Gunaratan
It is crucial for you to understand what meditation is. It is not some special posture, and it's not just a set of mental exercises. Meditation is the cultivation of mindfulness and the application of that mindfulness once cultivated. You do not have to sit to meditate. You can meditate while washing the dishes. You can meditate in the shower, or roller skating, or typing letters. Meditation is awareness, and it must be applied to each and every activity of one's life. This isn't easy.
Henepola Gunaratan
Friday, 17. February 2006, 12:19:57
Of all the ways you can think of, none has a sixteenth part of the value of loving-kindness. Loving-kindness is a freedom of the heart which takes in all the ways. It is luminous, shining, blazing forth.
Just as the stars have not a sixteenth part of the moon's brilliance, which absorbs them all in its shining light, so loving-kindness absorbs all the other ways with its lustrous splendor.
Just as when the rainy season ends and the sun rises up into the clear and cloudless sky, banishing all the dark in its radiant light, and just as at the end of a black night the morning star shines out in glory, so none of the ways you can use to further your spiritual progress has a sixteenth part of the value of loving-kindness. For it absorbs them all, its luminosity shining forth.
-Itivuttaka Sutta
Just as the stars have not a sixteenth part of the moon's brilliance, which absorbs them all in its shining light, so loving-kindness absorbs all the other ways with its lustrous splendor.
Just as when the rainy season ends and the sun rises up into the clear and cloudless sky, banishing all the dark in its radiant light, and just as at the end of a black night the morning star shines out in glory, so none of the ways you can use to further your spiritual progress has a sixteenth part of the value of loving-kindness. For it absorbs them all, its luminosity shining forth.
-Itivuttaka Sutta
Tuesday, 28. February 2006, 12:55:55 (edited)
No Absolute Truths Exist
But what makes these 'experts' preach their opinion and call it truth?" asked the inquirer. "Is it an inheritance of humankind to do this, or is it merely something they gain satisfaction from?"
"Apart from consciousness," answered the Buddha, "no absolute truths exist. False reasoning declares one view to be true and another view wrong. It is delight in their dearly held opinions that makes them assert that anyone who disagrees is bound to come to a bad end. But no true seeker becomes embroiled in all this. Pass by peacefully and go a stainless way, free from theories, lusts and dogmas."
Majjhima Nikaya
But what makes these 'experts' preach their opinion and call it truth?" asked the inquirer. "Is it an inheritance of humankind to do this, or is it merely something they gain satisfaction from?"
"Apart from consciousness," answered the Buddha, "no absolute truths exist. False reasoning declares one view to be true and another view wrong. It is delight in their dearly held opinions that makes them assert that anyone who disagrees is bound to come to a bad end. But no true seeker becomes embroiled in all this. Pass by peacefully and go a stainless way, free from theories, lusts and dogmas."
Majjhima Nikaya
Sunday, 12. March 2006, 15:31:05
The Moon Reflecting in the Water
A person getting enlightened is like the moon reflecting in the water. The moon does not get wet, the water is not disturbed. Though it is a great expanse of light, it reflects in a little bit of water; the whole moon and the whole sky reflect even in the dew on the grass; they reflect even in a single drop of water. Enlightenment not disturbing the person is like the moon not piercing the water. A person not obstructing enlightenment is like the dewdrop not obstructing the heavens.
Source: Dogen[
So:
The enlightened man
Discerning, learned,
Enduring, dutiful, noble,
Intelligent, a man of integrity:
Follow him
one of this sort
as the moon, the path
of the zodiac stars.
Souce: Dhammapada
A person getting enlightened is like the moon reflecting in the water. The moon does not get wet, the water is not disturbed. Though it is a great expanse of light, it reflects in a little bit of water; the whole moon and the whole sky reflect even in the dew on the grass; they reflect even in a single drop of water. Enlightenment not disturbing the person is like the moon not piercing the water. A person not obstructing enlightenment is like the dewdrop not obstructing the heavens.
Source: Dogen[
So:
The enlightened man
Discerning, learned,
Enduring, dutiful, noble,
Intelligent, a man of integrity:
Follow him
one of this sort
as the moon, the path
of the zodiac stars.
Souce: Dhammapada
Friday, 31. March 2006, 17:43:42
Live in Harmony and Peace
Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity. We are dependent on each other in so many ways that we can no longer live in isolated communities and ignore what is happening outside those communities.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity. We are dependent on each other in so many ways that we can no longer live in isolated communities and ignore what is happening outside those communities.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Thursday, 29. March 2007, 19:57:40
Conquer your foe by force, you increase his enmity; conquer by love, and you will reap no after-sorrow.
Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Attachment is the mind stuck to an object.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Door to Satisfaction
Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Attachment is the mind stuck to an object.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Door to Satisfaction
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