Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/30/2006

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/29/2006

Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/28/2006

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration 4/27/2006

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/26/2006

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/25/2006

I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

4/24/2006

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.

-Albert Einstein

4/24/2006

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.

-Albert Einstein

EMBI - 4/24/2006

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.

-Albert Einstein

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/24/2006

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.

-Albert Einstein

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/23/2006

Wisdom is often times nearer when we stoop, than when we soar.

-William Wordsworth

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/22/2006

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.

-Fo-Yan

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/21/2006

Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere:
Let us take long walks in the open air...
Let us bathe in the rivers and lakes...
Let us indulge in games...
Let us be more simple: simple and true in our minds above all.
Let us be ourselves.

-Robert Linssen

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/20/2006

Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.

-Thich Nhat Hahn

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/19/2006

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.

-Hsi-Tang

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/18/2006

Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don't worry about clear mind: it is always there. When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes, You must not be attached to the coming or the going.

-Zen Master Seung Sahn

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

-Dogen

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/16/2006

If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

-Lin-Chi

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/15/2006

The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.

-Avatamasaka Sutra

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/14/2006

People in the West are always getting ready to live.

-Chinese Proverb

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/13/2006

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

-Shunryu Suzuki

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/12/2006

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

-Longchenpa(14th century Tibet)

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/11/2006

Thus we see that the all-important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being lucky or unlucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die; finally, how we choose. We walk, and our religion is shown (even to the dullest and most insensitive person), in how we walk. Living in this world means choosing, and the way we choose to walk is infallibly and perfectly expressed in the walk itself.

-R. H. Blyth

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/10/2006

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/9/2006

Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/8/2006

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/7/2006

All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/6/2006

Ride your horse along the edge of a sword; hide yourself in the middle of flames....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/5/2006

Summer at its height-- and snow on the rocks! The death of winter-and the withered tree blossoms!

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/4/2006

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration 4/3/2006

When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/2/2006

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/1/2006

The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other....

What you think upon grows...