Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/25/2009

So we are asking now: what is the movement of meditation? First of all we must understand the importance of the senses. Most of us react, or act according to the urges, demands and the insistence of our senses. And those senses never act as a whole but only as a part - right? Please understand this. If you don't mind enquiring into this a little more for yourself, talking over together, but all our senses never function, move, operate as a whole, holistically. If you observe yourself and watch your senses you will see that one or the other of the senses becomes dominant. One or the other of the senses takes a greater part in observation in our daily living, so there is always imbalance in our senses - right? May we go on from there?

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/24/2009

'Meditation is a movement in and of the unknown ... it is that energy that though-matter cannot touch. Thought is perversion for it is the product of yesterday ... Everything put together by thought is within the area of noise, and thought can in no way make itself still ... thought itself must be still for silence to be. Silence is always now as thought is not. Thought, always being old, cannot possibly enter into that silence which is always new. The new becomes the old when thought touches it ... Love can only be when thought is still. This stillness can in no way be manufactured by thought ... this stillness can never be touched by thought. Thought is always old, but love is not ... the flowering of goodness is not in the soil of thought'

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/23/2009

"You have to find out what meditation is. It is a most extraordinary thing to know what meditation is - not how to meditate, not the system, not the practice, but the content of meditation. To be in the meditative mood and to go into that meditation requires a very generous mind, a mind that has no border, a mind that is not caught in the process of time. A mind that has not committed itself to anything, to any activity, to any thought, to any dogma, to any family, to a name - it is only such a mind that can be generous; and it is only such a mind that can begin to understand the depth, the beauty and the extraordinary loveliness of meditation."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/22/2009

"The flowering of meditation is goodness, and the generosity of the heart is the beginning of meditation." "You cannot meditate if you are ambitious - you may play with the idea of meditation. You your mind is authority-ridden, bound by tradition, accepting, following, you will never know what it is to meditate on this extraordinary beauty."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/21/2009

You should really forget the word meditation. That word has been corrupted. The ordinary meaning of that word - to ponder over, to consider, to think about - is rather trivial and ordinary. If you want to understand the nature of meditation you should really forget the word because you cannot possibly measure with words that which is not measurable, that which is beyond all measure. No words can convey it, nor any systems, modes of thought, practice or discipline. Meditation - or rather if we could find another word which has not been so mutilated, made so ordinary, corrupt, which has become the means of earning a great deal of money - if you can put aside the word, then you begin quietly end gently to feel a movement that is not of time. Again, the word movement implies time - what is meant is a movement that has no beginning or end. A movement in the sense of a wave: wave upon wave, starting from nowhere and with no beach to crash upon. It is an endless wave.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/20/2009

Live a good honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/19/2009

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/18/2009

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/17/2009

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/16/2009

Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind. When the mind becomes the practices, one is a practitioner of religion, and when the mind does not become the practices one is not.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/15/2009

What is the Great Vehicle? What is the mode of procedure of the Bodhisattva path? We begin with the topic of the altruistic intention to achieve enlightenment in which one values others more than oneself. The Great Vehicle path requires the vast motivation of a Bodhisattva, who, not seeking just his or her welfare, takes on the burden of bringing about the welfare of all sentient beings. When a person generate this attitude, they enter within the Great Vehicle, and as long as it has not been generated, one cannot be counted among those of the Great Vehicle. This attitude really has great power; it, of course, is helpful for people practicing religion, but it also is helpful for those who are just concerned with the affairs of this lifetime. The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/14/2009

I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect. Practice brings the clear realisation of the oneness of all human beings and the importance of others benefiting by your actions.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/13/2009

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/12/2009

I believe that in the 20th century, humanity has learned from many, many experiences. Some positive, and many negative. What misery, what destruction! The greatest number of human beings were killed in the two world wars of this century. But human nature is such that when we face a tremendous critical situation, the human mind can wake up and find some other alternative. That is a human capacity.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/11/2009

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/10/2009

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/9/2009

It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/8/2009

If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.
~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/7/2009

Within the body there are billions of different particles. Similarly, there are many different thoughts and a variety of states of mind. It is wise to take a close look into the world of your mind and to make the distinction between beneficial and harmful states of mind. Once you can recognize the value of good states of mind, you can increase or foster them.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/6/2009

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason...Compassion without attachment is possible. Therefore, we need to clarify the distinctions between compassion and attachment. True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude towards others does not change even if they behave negatively. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the needs of the other...

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/5/2009

I believe that at every level of society - familial, tribal, national and international - the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/4/2009

According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/3/2009

We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it then no politician or even a magician can save the planet.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/2/2009

My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation: if scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

~The Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/1/2009

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.

~The Dalai Lama

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