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Sunday, June 5, 2011 10:34:05 AM
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There are many Kadampa masters who are very great and contemplate every moment on impermanence. One such master was meditating in a cave where a thorn bush grows outside the entrance. Everyday when he walks past the thorn bush to get water from the outside, his clothes get caught on the thorns and he will think, “This bush is such a nuisance, I should cut it down.” The next moment however, he will reflect that he may not live long enough to make it back into the cave for practice and brush off the thought. When he returns with the water, again his clothes get caught on the thorns and he thinks of cutting it down. Immediately he however contemplates that he may not live long enough to get out of the cave again and once again brushes off the thought. This went on for many years until he became enlightened and came out of the cave to teach others.
From Contemplation on Impermanence by Shangpa Rinpoche
Sunday, May 29, 2011 7:13:43 PM
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Why else do you think we are telling you about the people of the cave, and the numbers connected with them? They are among our wondrous signs.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011 7:36:29 PM
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I reflected on my intention in my public teaching, and I saw that it was not directed purely to God, but rather was instigated and motivated by the quest for fame and widespread prestige. So I became certain that I was on the brink of a crumbling bank... Mundane desires began tugging me with their chains to remain as I was, while the herald of faith was crying out.
(Abu Hamid al-Ghazali)
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 11:54:00 AM
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As for the intelligent person it is easy for him to part with petty amount in order to gain its multiple ten fold. That is why you see everyone in commerce and industry and even in the pursuit of knowledge will withstand all kinds of humiliations, poverty, hardships, and intolerable pain, eagerly desiring a gain of a pleasure in the future that is greater than what they miss at the present moment, a limited increase. How is it then that they will not leave present conditions in order to reach priceless and unlimited gains? [...] However the reluctance of creation in following the path of felicity is due to their lack of conviction in the final day. For even the deficient intellect will quickly judge to go on the path of felicity over one with complete intelligence.
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Mizan al-amal
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