Quote for the day

[Mr. G]

There is no ornament like virtue,
There is no misery like worry,
There is no protection like patience,
There is no friend equal to generosity.

-- Nagarjuna

[David N. Snyder]

"I don't want immortality by writing some bestseller or by being famous or donating money to get my name on a building. I want immortality by not dying."

Woody Allen

[retrofuturist]

"Unity, in terms of subjective experience, entails a merging of the subject with the object. Experiences of this kind are often the outcome of deep levels of concentration. Nibbana, on the other hand, entails a complete giving up of both subject and object, not a merger of the two. Such an experience constitutes an "escape" from the entire field of cognition. Although nibbana partakes of non-duality in so far as it has no counterpart, its implications nevertheless go beyond experiences of oneness or unity."

- Ven. Analayo (in his treatise on Satipatthana)

[catmoon]

Ten thousand flowers in spring,
the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter.

If your mind isn't clouded
by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.

-Wu Men

[muni]

Great posts.

Realizing our thoughts are naturally momentary energy without owner and when we don't follow them or grasp them, we are no slave of them and can use them in case of useful. Like the free running water of the fresh waterfall behind the hills, we can use when needful without chasing behind down the hills, as an exhausted fool.

All is interdependent and appearing in the naturally energy.

(self service quote by loved teaching)

[ground]

"I don't want immortality by writing some bestseller or by being famous or donating money to get my name on a building. I want immortality by not dying."

Woody Allen

[Mr. G]

Even if you must die tomorrow, study today.
Though you may not become a sage in this life,
Your knowledge will be preserved for the future
Just like wealth deposited and then reclaimed.
- Sakya Pandita

[muni]

"Please don't hurt others...
Please try to work with people and be helpful to them.
A fantastically large number of people need help.
Please try to help them, for goodness sake, for heaven and earth.
Don't just collect Oriental wisdoms one after the other.
Don't just sit on an empty zafu, an empty meditation cushion.
But go out and try to help others, if you can.
That is the main point."

Chogyam Trungpa.

[muni]

Simple joy.

An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy and who because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child. Dujardin.

Let us live simple in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind. Matthieu Ricard.

My bed is small, but I rest at ease, my clothes are thin, but my body is warm, my food is scarce but I am nourished. Milarepa.

[muni]

Stop with being clever and simple remain. Guru Rinpoche.

[m0rl0ck]

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a bananna.


~Groucho

[Ngawang Drolma]

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

[Ngawang Drolma]

Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth. - Sutta Nipata

[muni]

Great!



Shamata is like that you are in the toilet of a plane, the occupied light is always on and no one can enter. Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Samadhi is having a joyful flight during different degrees of meditative absorption.
Dzogchen, through the glass door with the light on; all is perfect there.

[Ngawang Drolma]

To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protests us from being discouraged.

- Dalai Lama

[muni]

How to understand when I don't see delusion?

[muni]

A wise one has nothing to prove and is able to see teaching everywhere, like in the words of a small child. No arrogance.

[Ngawang Drolma]

Cherishing and caring for others is
the source of all happiness.
Cherishing ourselves over others,
is the source of all suffering
and negative conditions.
- Shantideva

[sukhamanveti]

It is with an objective mind endowed with a curious skepticism that we should engage in careful analysis and seek the reasons [for belief]. Then, on the basis of seeing the reasons, we engender a faith that is accompanied by wisdom.

Now, whenever we engage in an analysis, such as on the nature of mind or reality, if we proceed from the start already convinced that “It must be so and so,” then due to our biases, we will be unable to see the actual truth and will instead see only our naïve projection. It is therefore essential that the analyzing mind strive to be objective and not swayed by prejudices. What we need is a skeptical curiosity, our mind moving between the possibilities, genuinely wondering whether it is thus or some other way…

However, if we maintain an objective stance unswayed by bias yet have no feeling or interest in the analysis, this too is incorrect. We should cultivate a curious mind, drawn toward all possibilities; and when we do, the desire to investigate naturally arises. If the mind drawn toward possibilities is absent, we just abandon the inquiry and simply say dismissively, “I don’t know.” This way, then, brings no real benefit because we are not open to new insights.

Therefore, a curious skepticism is extremely important. For where there is such skepticism, constant inquiry also takes place.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Middle Way: Faith Grounded in Reason (Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications), pp. 13-14.

[Ngawang Drolma]

Even if you must die tomorrow, study today.
Though you may not become a sage in this life,
Your knowledge will be preserved for the future
Just like wealth deposited and then reclaimed.
- Sakya Pandita