Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/15/2010

"As long as we possess, we shall never love. We know love as sensation, do we not? When we say we love, we know jealousy, we know fear, we know anxiety. When you say you love someone, all that is implied: envy, the desire to possess, the desire to own, to dominate, the fear of loss, and so on. All this we call love, and we do not know love without fear, without envy, without possession; we merely verbalize that state of love which is without fear, we call it impersonal, pure, divine, or God knows what else; but the fact is that we are jealous, we are dominating, possessive."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/14/2010

"Love is not to be cultivated. Love cannot be divided into divine and physical; it is only love-not that you love many or the one. That again is an absurd question to ask: "Do you love all?" You know, a flower that has perfume is not concerned who comes to smell it, or who turns his back upon it. So is love. Love is not a memory. Love is not a thing of the mind or the intellect. But it comes into being naturally as compassion, when this whole problem of existence-as fear, greed, envy, despair, hope-has been understood and resolved."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/13/2010

"Love is not identification; it is not thought about the loved. You do not think about love when it is there; you think about it only when it is absent, when there is distance between you and the object of your love. When there is direct communion, there is no thought, no image, no revival of memory; it is when the communion breaks, at any level, that the process of thought, of imagination, begins."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/12/2010

"In self-awareness there is no need for confession, for self-awareness creates the mirror in which all things are reflected without distortion. Every thought- feeling is thrown, as it were, on the screen of awareness to be observed, studied and understood; but this flow of understanding is blocked when there is condemnation or acceptance, judgment or identification. The more the screen is watched and understood-not as a duty or enforced practice, but because pain and sorrow have created the insatiable interest that brings its own discipline-the greater the intensity of awareness, and this in turn brings heightened understanding."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/11/2010

"When you are hoping for something positively or negatively, you are projecting your own desire; you will succeed in your desire, but that is only another substitution, and so the battle is on again. This desire to gain or to avoid is still within the field of opposition, is it not? See the false as the false, then the truth is. You don't have to look for it. What you seek you will find, but it will not be truth. It is like a suspicious man finding what he suspects, which is comparatively easy and stupid. Just be passively aware of this total thought process, and also of the desire to be free of it."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/10/2010

"Awareness is that state of mind which observes something without any condemnation or acceptance, which merely faces the thing as it is. When you look at a flower nonbotanically, then you see the totality of the flower; but if your mind is completely taken up with the botanical knowledge of what the flower is, you are not totally looking at the flower. Though you may have knowledge of the flower, if that knowledge takes the whole ground of your mind, the whole field of your mind, then you are not looking totally at the flower."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/9/2010

"Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing- being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/8/2010

"In awareness there is only the present-that is, being aware, you see the past process of influence which controls the present and modifies the future. Awareness is an integral process, not a process of division."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/7/2010

"The phenomenon of the observer and the observed is not a dual process, but a single one; and only in experiencing the fact of this unitary process is there freedom from desire, from conflict. The question of how to experience this fact should never arise. It must happen; and it happens only when there is alertness and passive awareness. You cannot know the actual experience of meeting a poisonous snake by imagining or speculating about it while sitting comfortably in your room. To meet the snake you must venture out beyond the paved streets and artificial lights."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/6/2010

"In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding. In this process when thought and feeling unfold themselves, which is only possible when there is neither acquisition nor acceptance, then there comes an extensional awareness, all the hidden layers and their significance are revealed."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/5/2010

"If one is aware, one sees how through fear one's concept of God arose; or perhaps there was a person who had an original experience of reality or of God and communicated it to another who in his greediness made it his own, and gave impetus to the process of imitation. Awareness is the process of completeness, and introspection is incomplete. The result of introspection is morbid, painful, whereas awareness is enthusiasm and joy."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/4/2010

"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/3/2010

"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/2/2010

"Look within, thou art the Buddha."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/1/2010

"Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/30/2010

"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/29/2010

"The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/28/2010

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/27/2010

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/26/2010

"As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts."

~The Buddha

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