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...

Isis SG

A Note To My Thoughts- A Poem by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

A Note To My Thoughts

Past, isn't it simply a fleeting thought?
Future, isn't it just a projection of mind?
Aren't they all simply just happening now?
What there is is only this moment --
So fresh, yet just another fleeting nowness!
The world that you see,
And the sounds that you hear,
Thoughts that arise randomly,
Aren't they all just happening in nowness?
Why don't you just let go of the past and future thoughts?
Why can't you simply relax in this beautiful world now?
Why do you sacrifice your present for your pure imaginations?
Hey! Hey! Wake up you, lazy dzogchen lama!
dpr

April 13, 2007

Isis SG

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

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When a man is free from all sense pleasures and depends on nothingness he
is free in the supreme freedom from perception. He will stay there and
not return again.

It is like a flame struck by a sudden gust of wind. In a flash it has
gone out and nothing more can be known about it. It is the same with a
wise man freed from mental existence: in a flash he has gone out and
nothing more can be known about him.

When a person has gone out, then there is nothing by which you can measure
him. That by which he can be talked about is no longer there for him; you
cannot say that he does not exist. When all ways of being, all phenomena
are removed, then all ways of description have also been removed.

~ Buddha

An Eternal Now SG

Maggie.meepok SG

Very nice!

cycle SG

由理解佛法而认识‘无我，并不等于亲证‘无我’。

我有一篇短文，题为 [从小我到无我] ，说明小我也是有用，若无小我，即无能够主宰生活方向的人，亦无能够发心修行的人。

由修行而从各个分别的小我，可进而成为全体统一的大我，在从大我的彻底粉碎，即是到了大地落沉，虚空也无的境地，才是无我。此一无我，是无小我，也无大我，即是 [无我相，无人相，无众生相，无寿者相]。

~ 圣严法师， [学佛群疑]

cycle SG

执着有我，是我；执着无我，也是我。

~ 圣严法师

Isis SG

I wonder if the book that you are reading got explaination on the verses ?

hee what book is that ?

An Eternal Now SG

I wonder if the book that you are reading got explaination on the verses ?

hee what book is that ?

Dunnu, my friend's online dharma community sent me this through e-mail.

Isis SG

Dunnu, my friend's online dharma community sent me this through e-mail.

Oic. Thank for the sharing.

An Eternal Now SG

No matter how many waves may arise, they never depart from the ocean, even in the slightest. Similarly, whether still or in movement, the mind never departs from awareness or emptiness, even in the slightest.

~ Flight of the Garuda, Shabkar Tsokdrug Rangdrol

cycle SG

天上间的喜乐，比不上欲求消失的欢愉。

~ 佛陀

cycle SG

愤怒，对有些人来说，像刻在石壁上的文字般，能持续数百年。愤怒，对有些人来说，像写在沙滩上的文字般，很快就消失于无形。

~达摩难陀法师

cycle SG

We often seek to experience only the first half of the process of impermanence - wishing to live but not die; to gain but not to lose; to fall in love but not to break up. However, in order to enjoy true freedom we have to understand and accept the full cycle of impermanence and not hold on to the part that we like obstinately.

~ Ven. Shi Leqian

cycle SG

Pain and happiness are like two sides of a coin. A person who is able to distill happiness from painful experiences enjoys the highest form of happiness.

~ Ven. Shi Fazhao

An Eternal Now SG

Whoever is attached to a result for this life, is not a Dharma person.

The purpose of Dharma is liberation, not feeling better in this life. The purpose of Dharma is not the cultivation of mundane compassion, and so on.

The purpose of Dharma is to control afflictions, then overcome them, and finally, to attain a state of total omniscience and freedom.

~ Loppon Namdrol

Isis SG

Easily seen are others' faults; hard indeed it is to see one's own fault.

It is not that something is wrong with the world, but something is wrong with us.

Thinking people have realised that the course of human history is determined not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in the hearts of men.

We can make use of this life for a better purpose by being service others, by cultivating morality, by training the mind and living as cultured men in peace and harmony with the rest of the world.

Julian Huxley said: Life should lead to the fufilment of innumerable possibilities - physical, mental, spiritual and so forth - What man is capble of. And humanity is capable of greater and nobler things.

Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat. ~ Buddha

An Eternal Now SG

梦里明明有六趣

觉后空空无大千

An Eternal Now SG

"The world is given only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one."

~ Physicist Erwin Schrodinger

Isis SG

-Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

- That which can be called the Tao ( The way ) is not the Eternal Tao. That which can be called the Name is not the eternal Name. Tao is both one and many; as One, it is the nameless root of heaven and miracle of Tao. A mind lost in its own desire, sees only the forms of this world. Tao and this world seem different, but in truth they are one and the same. The only difference is in the name we give them. How deep and mysterious this unity is. How profound, how great! It is the truth beyond the truth, the mystery beyond the mind. It is the path to all wonders, the gate to the ecstatic nature of everything! The whole world we travel with our thoughts, finding nowhere anyone as precious as one’s own self. Since every person is so precious to themselves, let the self-respecting harm no other being.

(Tao Te Ching)

- The Buddha said, “ To be attached to a certain view and to look down upon other views as inferior-this the wise call a fetter ( chain ).

An Eternal Now SG

Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. That seems so simple--except when we substitute for real practice some idea that we should be different or better than we are, or that our lives should be different from the way they are. When we substitute our ideas about what should be (such notions as "I should not be angry or confused or unwilling") for our life as it truly is, then we're off base and our practice is barren.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

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