Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/5/2006

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

~His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/4/2006

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.


~His Holiness The Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

~His Holiness The Dalai Lama


On July 1st, 2006 I, Ryan Jamie Burda asked Alex Mary Nystrum to be my wife and she said YES!

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/2/2006

Zazen is different from other meditation in that it uses no meditation object or concept to focus on.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/1/2006

Meditation, sitting in which one cuts all connections with the external world and lets go of all concerns within.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/30/2006

The Lotus position expresses the oneness of duality.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/29/2006

To really practice Zen one must sit like a great pine with a sense of dignity and grandeur.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/28/2006

Collected concentration in which subject is no different from object.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/27/2006

Becoming one with what one is doing; that which comes forth when one becomes the life of the moment.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/26/2006

"I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living that one needs....

Lin-yutang

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/25/2006

While each person is still individually different, each also has a unifying, undifferentiated mind.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/24/2006

Enlightenment is to die completly and then come back to life.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/23/2006

Enlightenment is about freeing yourself from the cycle of birth and death.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/22/2006

It is about realizing your own Buddhahood.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/21/2006

Enlightenment is about seeing into your nature.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/20/2006

Many people are afraid to empty their minds lest they plunge into the Void. They do not know that their own Mind is the Void. The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.
~ Zen Master Huang-po

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/19/2006

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

~ Christmas Humphreys

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/18/2006

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

~ Alan Watts

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/17/2006

If your eyes are even slightly blurred, all you see will be hallucinations.

~ Zen Saying

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/16/2006

On life's journey Faith is nourishment, Virtuous deeds are a shelter, Wisdom is the light by day and Right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him; If he has conquered greed nothing can limit his freedom.

~ Buddha