You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed....
~ Zen Quote by Mumon
April 30, 2009
April 29, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/29/2009
The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other....
~ Zen Quote by Ma-Tsu
April 28, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/28/2009
He who wherever he goes is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor shrinking from the other - take it that such a one has attained Perfection.
~ Bhagavad-Gita
April 27, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/27/2009
The living meaning of Zen is beyond all notions. To realize it in a phrase is completely contrary to the subtle essence; we cannot avoid using words as expedients, though, but this has limitations. Needless to say, of course, random talk is useless. Nonetheless, the matter is not one-sided, so we temporarily set forth a path in the way of teaching, to deal with people.
~ Zen Quote by Qingfu
April 26, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/26/2009
When you're deluded, every statement is an ulcer; when you're enlightened, every word is wisdom.
~ Zen Quote by Zhiqu
April 25, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/25/2009
One single still light shines bright: if you intentionally pursue it, after all it's hard to see. Suddenly encountering it, people's hearts are opened up, and the great matter is clear and done. This is really living, without any fetters -- no amount of money could replace it. Even if a thousand sages should come, they would all appear in it's shadow.
~ Zen Quote by Chuzhen
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April 24, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/24/2009
Just think of the trees: they let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away. If people's hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way.
~ Zen Quote by Langya
April 23, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/23/2009
Fit speech stems from fit thought most often.
~ The Buddha
April 22, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/22/2009
Giving properly means doing so confidently and without too much encumberments.
~ The Buddha
April 21, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/21/2009
Living well favours a serene death and rebirth in a happy state.
~ The Buddha
April 20, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/20/2009
Death is not to be feared so much by one who has lived wisely.
~ The Buddha
April 19, 2009
April 18, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/18/2009
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
~ The Buddha
April 17, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/17/2009
A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.
~ The Buddha
April 16, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/16/2009
A good path is free from torture and groaning and suffering.
~ The Buddha
April 15, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/15/2009
One is to cultivate the seven factors of enlightenment: mindfulness, investigation into phenomena, energy, bliss, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity.
~ The Buddha
April 14, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/14/2009
Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.
~ The Buddha
April 13, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/13/2009
Sensuous craving often gives rise to dissension, quarrelling and fighting, and so on.
~ The Buddha
April 12, 2009
April 11, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/11/2009
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
~ The Buddha
April 10, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/10/2009
In the proper season they give, those with discernment.
~ The Buddha
April 09, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/9/2009
By overcoming mental formations in a right way, bliss opens up.
~ The Buddha
April 08, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/8/2009
Profound truth, so difficult to perceive, difficult to understand, tranquilizing and sublime, is not to be gained by mere reasoning and is perceived only by the wise.
~ The Buddha
April 07, 2009
April 06, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/6/2009
A man is not to be considered a good man just because he is an able talker.
~ The Buddha
April 05, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/5/2009
A generous heart is good for the right sort of people.
~ The Buddha
April 04, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/4/2009
As the bee collects nectar and fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.
~ The Buddha
April 03, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/3/2009
Whatever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings; believe and cling to that doctrine, and take it as your guide.
~ The Buddha
April 02, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/2/2009
Be greatly aware of reality as you meet or confront it each day, and from that become fit enough to deal with it.
~ The Buddha
~ The Buddha
April 01, 2009
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/1/2009
Vipassana Bhavana Meditation
'Vipassana bhavana meditation' is realization of the three signs of being, 'anicca', 'dukkha', and 'anatta', by direct insight. These three characteristics, impermanence, suffering and non-self, can be grasped intellectually, as scientific and philosophical truth, but this is not in itself sufficient to rid the mind of egoism and craving.
The philosopher who fails to live according to his philosophy is the most familiar example of this incompatibility between theory and practice. When the direct perception is obtained, however, what was at its highest intellectual level still merely a theory becomes actual knowledge, in precisely the same way that we "know" when we are hot or cold hungry or thirsty. The mind that has attained it is established in the Dhamma, and 'panna', wisdom, has taken the place of delusion.
'Vipassana bhavana meditation' is realization of the three signs of being, 'anicca', 'dukkha', and 'anatta', by direct insight. These three characteristics, impermanence, suffering and non-self, can be grasped intellectually, as scientific and philosophical truth, but this is not in itself sufficient to rid the mind of egoism and craving.
The philosopher who fails to live according to his philosophy is the most familiar example of this incompatibility between theory and practice. When the direct perception is obtained, however, what was at its highest intellectual level still merely a theory becomes actual knowledge, in precisely the same way that we "know" when we are hot or cold hungry or thirsty. The mind that has attained it is established in the Dhamma, and 'panna', wisdom, has taken the place of delusion.
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