Daily Buddhist Verses

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Our normal way of relating people is to see ourself as separate from the others.To objectify beings as separate you and make them an object of attachment is...

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You can always put two fingers to the side of your mouth and lift them up into a smile. Even if it is a false smile, something in our body is triggered, and it becomes part of ourselves after a while. Fake it till you make it!

~Ajahn Brahm

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A respected Venerable once said this: You speak and behave as what you harbour in your mind. You encounter situation as what state you put yourself in. Nobody can control you, you're responsible for yourself. You go up to heaven yourself, nobody can push you up. You go down to hell yourself, nobody can pull you down.

~ Ven. Shi Fazhao

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All the sicknesses that I have in this life are due to my past unwholesome thoughts and actions. It is because of attachment to the self( Ego) that afflictions and sicknesses arise.

~ Vimalakirty Sutra

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Just as the ocean has a single taste - that of salt - in the same way this Dhamma and Discipline has a single taste: that of release.

~ Buddha

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All natural laws of the universe attribute their success to patience.

~Diamond Sutra

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Like gold, upon being scorched, cut, and rubbed,
My word is to be adopted by monastics and scholars upon analyzing it well,
Not out of respect [ for me ].

~Buddha

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When you see with discernment,
'All fabrications are inconstant'...
'All fabrications are stressful'...
'All phenomena are not-self-
you grow disenchanted with stress.
This is the path
to purity.

~ Dhp 277-279

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The staff
Shuzan held out his short staff and said," if you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact. Now what do you wish to call it ? "

Manjusri enters the gate
One day as Manjusri stood outside the gate, The Buddha called to him," Manjusri, why do you not enter? " Manjusri replied, " I do not see myself as outside, why enter? "

The turtle
A monk saw a turtle in the garden of Daizui's monastary and asked the teacher, " All beings cover their bones with flesh and skin. Why this being cover its flesh and skin with bones? " Master Daizui took off one of his sandals and covered the turtle with it.

~ Ven Gyomay Kubose, Zen Koans

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A deva: "Tell me, dear sir, how you crossed over the flood."
The Buddha: "I crossed over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place."
The deva: "But how did you cross over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place?"
The Buddha: "When I pushed forward, I was whirled about. When I stayed in place, I sank. And so I crossed over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place."

The deva:

At long last I see
an honorable one, totally unbound,
who without pushing forward,
without staying in place,
has crossed over
the entanglements of the world.

- SN 1.1

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Noble Conversation

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- A man who puts aside his religion because he is going to join the society is like one who takes off his shoes because he is about to embark on a journey.

- Death is no cause for sorrow, but it would be sorrow if one dies without having done something for oneself and for the world.

- You withdraw your God, I withdraw my Buddha. Let's use our common sense. Then, without any religions biasness, one can understand reality and truth.

~ Ven. K. Sri Dhammananda Nakya Maha Thero

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Always, always,
he sleeps in ease:
the brahmin totally unbound,
who doesn't adhere
to the sensual pleasures,
who's without acquisitions
and cooled.
Having cut all ties and subdued fear in the heart,
claimed,
he sleeps in ease,
having reached peace
of awareness.

- AN III:35

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[The Blessed One responded:] "I don't say, brahman, that everything that has be seen should be spoken about. Nor do I say that everything that has been seen should not be spoken about. [Similarly with what has been heard, sensed, or cognized.] "When, for one who speaks of what has been seen, unskillful mental qualities increase and skillful mental qualities decrease, then that sort of thing should not be spoken about. But when, for one who speaks of what has been seen, unskillful mental qualities decrease and skillful mental qualities increase, then that sort of thing should be spoken about. [Similarly with what has been heard, sensed, or cognized.]"

- AN IV.183

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If people find fault with you and try to put you into dad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbour any dislike, don't enter into any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful.

~ Zen master Yuanwu

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Virtue is a blessing
into old age.

- Dhp 333

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A minister of the Dang Dynasty, despite his fame, power, and wealth, considered himself of a humble and devout Buddhist. One day, during a usual visit to his favourite Zen master, he asked the master, "Your Reverence, what is egotism according to Buddhism?" In a very condescending tone of voice, the master shot back, "What kind of stupid question is that?" This unexpected response so shocked the minister that he became sullen and angry. The Zen master then smiled and said, "This, Your Excellency, is egotism."

~ A Buddhist story.

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The true dhamma was to be found
Not in old customs or texts,
But in the well-trained
Heart and mind.

~ Acariya Mun Bhuridatta Maha Thero

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I am life without boundaries, born or die
Over there the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies
All manifests from the basis of consciousness
Since beginningless time I have always been free

Birth,Old,Sickness,Death
Birth and death are only a rule of hide-and-seek
So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye
Tomorrow I will meet you again or even before
We shall always be meeting again at the true source
Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life

I am life without boundaries

Edited Version Mr. Green

Originated by Thich Nhat Hanh

An Eternal Now SG

"If you're completely new, then it's good to have information. Good to study, good to be academical and critical. But the point of studying & being academical & critical, is so that you can find the path, and then practice."

Dharma joke: Meditation without study is like handicapped person trying to climb a mountain.

DKR replied, "But [those who study without meditating] try to grow 1000 arms, but they don't climb mountain, so what's the point?"

- DKR @ Kalu Rinpoche's monastery opening ceremony, 16 April 2007

An Eternal Now SG

Hmm.. what did you edit? Shocked

Owl^ SG

This body is not me; I am not caught in this body,
I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died.
Over there the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies
All manifests from the basis of consciousness.
Since beginningless time I have always been free.
Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out.
Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek.
So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye.
Tomorrow we shall meet again or even before.
We shall always be meeting again at the true source,
Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life.

- No death, no fear, by Thich Nhat Hanh

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