Daily Buddhist Verses

last SG · 2005-05-29T17:49:29+00:00

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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I think we can begin to understand the dhamma analytically, by listening to the teachings and then reflecting upon them. But this is just a beginning which has to be developed further and integrated with ethical conduct (sīla) and meditative composure (samādhi). There are three levels of discernment (paññā): discernment obtained through hearing (sutamayā paññā), discernment obtained through reflection (cintāmayā paññā), and discernment obtained through meditative development (bhāvanāmayā paññā). The first two comprise theoretical levels of discernment where one hears the teachings and reflects on them. This reflection is the beginning of internalizing the meaning of what has been heard. But for discernment to be liberating the process of internalization must deepen through meditative development. This level is direct experiential discernment.

- Geoff

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"With going the boundless sky goes, with coming the entire earth comes. This is everyday mind."

~ Zen Master Dogen

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Though one should live a hundred years
As a lazy, sluggish person,
Better it is to live a single day
Firmly arousing one’s energy.

- Buddha, Dhp. 112

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The Dharma-Eye: Seeing Clearly, Clearly Seeing

Our world view is not simply the way we look at the world. It reaches inward to constitute our innermost being, and outward to constitute the world.
_{Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche, p.16}

So life is what I am making it, and I am what life is making me.
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What has been described like this is that life is the self, and the self is life.
Dogen, Shobogenzo, Zenki, Gudo Nishijima & Mike Cross

Peace,
Ted

(Ted Biringer)

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[Mogharaja:]

[The Buddha:]

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Those who train themselves in Zen should be indifferent to others faults and abilities, negatives and positives, for such an attitude manifests the emotional imperturbability of the empty, selfless, natural mind nature (Samadhi). Those who train themselves for this emotional imperturbability should, in their contact with all situations, emotionally ignore the positives and negatives of it.

As soon as you open your mouth or mind and emotionally identify negatives or positives, you have deviated from the Dao of Zen. When you become emotionally attached to outer objects, your essential mind nature becomes agitated. When you are emotionally detached to outer objects, the inner peace of your natural mind nature (Samadhi) remains. The reason why we become emotionally perturbed is because we allow ourselves to be carried away and then emotionally attached to the circumstances we are in.

—Zen Master Hui-neng

sinweiy SG

【禅理】1、看一切人都是好人，看一切事都是好事，看一切处都是好处，这才是解脱。2、你什么时候随缘，什么时候就顺利。当你无所求时，才会无所不有。3、事情本身没有好和坏，好坏是我们自己的分别执着。4、真正随缘了才能顺利，真的放下了才能得到。5、懂得了因果，也就掌握了改变命运的方法。

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"Do not block your six senses; delight in them with joy and ease.
All that you take pleasure in will strengthen the awakened state.
With such a confidence, empowered by the regal state of natural mind,
The training now is simply this: lets your six senses be at ease and free." - Princess Parani

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It's used as a support to remain in contemplation while in movement. Just as the ganapuja stimulates all the senses so you can incorporate/integrate them into contemplation. Movement(tactile sensation) with the mudras, auditory sensation with the bell/drum/mantras, taste with the food, smell with the incense, visual with the mudras/visualizations.

Song of vajra dance and music is the same type thing. Support to remain in contemplation. So you can eventually remain in constant nonmeditation.

Just listen to the song of vajra in it's suchness. As white noise almost. Let it pass as a reflection and remain as the mirror.

The sound of traffic and people bustling in the streets is the song of vajra... Integrate integrate integrate

~ asunthatneversets

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Since everything is an illusion -
with some more perfect than others -
with no relationship to good or bad,
being or not-being,
one might as well
laugh from beginning to end.

- Longchenpa

sinweiy SG

Those who reach the “world where lotus blossoms
Are stored” (the Pure Land)
Are immediately enlightened to “thusness.”
Exercising their “transcendent powers”
In the “forest of base desires”
They transform themselves into forms
Meaningful to those they wish to “save”
In the “garden of life and death” (the sentient world).

- Shinran

Tathagata is Nirvana;
And Nirvana is referred to
as the nature of Buddha.
An ordinary person
cannot be enlightened (in this world),
But can realize it
In the Land of Serene Sustenance.

- Shinran

sinweiy SG

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

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"When one thing is practiced & pursued, ignorance is abandoned, clear knowing arises, the conceit 'I am' is abandoned, latent tendencies are uprooted, fetters are abandoned. Which one thing? Mindfulness immersed in the body." -AN 1.230

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SN 15.10:

    The heap of bones one person leaves behind
    With the passing of a single aeon
    Would form a heap as high as a mountain:
    So said the Great Sage.
    This is declared to be as massive
    As the tall Vepulla Mountain
    Standing north of Vulture’s Peak
    In the Magadhan mountain range.

    But when one sees with correct wisdom
    The truths of the noble ones—
    Suffering and its origin,
    The overcoming of suffering,
    And the Noble Eightfold Path
    That leads to suffering’s appeasement—
    Then that person, having wandered on
    For seven more times at most,
    Makes an end to suffering
    By destroying all the fetters.

allkosong SG

Words of wisdom indeed. Thank you!

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Buddha:

Grain, wealth, silver, gold, or whatever other belongings you have; slaves, servants, errand-runners, & any dependents: you must go without taking any of them; you must leave all of them behind. What you do with body, speech, or mind: that is yours; taking that you go; that’s your follower, like a shadow that never leaves. Thus you should do what is fine as a stash for the next life. Acts of merit are the support for beings in their after-death world.

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Buddha:

At Savatthi. “For a monk practicing the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma, what accords with the Dhamma is this: that he keep cultivating disenchantment with regard to form, that he keep cultivating disenchantment with regard to feeling, that he keep cultivating disenchantment with regard to perception, that he keep cultivating disenchantment with regard to fabrications, that he keep cultivating disenchantment with regard to consciousness. As he keeps cultivating disenchantment with regard to form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness, he comprehends form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness. As he comprehends form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness, he is totally released from form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness. He is totally released from sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs. He is totally released, I tell you, from suffering & stress.”

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At Savatthi. “For a monk practicing the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma, what accords with the Dhamma is this: that he keep focused on inconstancy with regard to form, that he keep focused on inconstancy with regard to feeling, that he keep focused on inconstancy with regard to perception, that he keep focused on inconstancy with regard to fabrications, that he keep focused on inconstancy with regard to consciousness. As he keeps focusing on inconstancy with regard to form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness, he comprehends form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness. As he comprehends form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness, he is totally released from form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness. He is totally released from sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs. He is totally released, I tell you, from suffering & stress.”

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At Savatthi. “For a monk practicing the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma, what accords with the Dhamma is this: that he keep focused on stress with regard to form, that he keep focused on stress with regard to feeling, that he keep focused on stress with regard to perception, that he keep focused on stress with regard to fabrications, that he keep focused on stress with regard to consciousness. As he keeps focusing on stress with regard to form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness, he comprehends form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness. As he comprehends form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness, he is totally released from form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness. He is totally released from sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs. He is totally released, I tell you, from suffering & stress.”

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At Savatthi. “For a monk practicing the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma, what accords with the Dhamma is this: that he keep focused on not-self with regard to form, that he keep focused on not-self with regard to feeling, that he keep focused on not-self with regard to perception, that he keep focused on not-self with regard to fabrications, that he keep focused on not-self with regard to consciousness. As he keeps focusing on not-self with regard to form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness, he comprehends form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness. As he comprehends form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness, he is totally released from form… feeling… perception… fabrications… consciousness. He is totally released from sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs. He is totally released, I tell you, from suffering & stress.”

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SN 9.11
PTS: S i 203
CDB i 301
Ayoniso-manasikara Sutta: Inappropriate Attention
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
© 1999–2012

I have heard that on one occasion a certain monk was dwelling among the Kosalans in a forest thicket. Now at that time, he spent the day's abiding thinking evil, unskillful thoughts: i.e., thoughts of sensuality, thoughts of ill will, thoughts of doing harm.

Then the devata inhabiting the forest thicket, feeling sympathy for the monk, desiring his benefit, desiring to bring him to his senses, approached him and addressed him with this verse:
From inappropriate attention you're being chewed by your thoughts. Relinquishing what's inappropriate, contemplate appropriately. Keeping your mind on the Teacher, the Dhamma, the Sangha, your virtues, you will arrive at joy, rapture, pleasure without doubt. Then, saturated with joy, you will put an end to suffering & stress.

The monk, chastened by the devata, came to his senses.

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The earth outside, the stones, mountains, rocks, plants, trees and forests do not truly exist.
The body inside does not truly exist.
This empty and luminous mind-nature also does not truly exist.
Although it does not truly exist, it cognizes everything.

- Vajrayogini

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“Now the venerable Upali came to the Exalted One, saluted and sat down
at one side. So seated, he said; “Well were it for me, lord, if the
Exalted One were to expound Dhamma briefly to me, so that, having
heard it, I might abide resolute, alone, secluded, earnest and zealous.”
“The doctrines, Upali, of which you may know: “These doctrines lead one
not to complete weariness (of the world), nor to dispassion, nor to
ending, nor to calm, nor to knowledge, nor to awakening, nor to the cool”
- regard them definitely as not Dhamma, not the the discipline, not the
word of the Teacher.
But the doctrines of which you may know:”These doctrines lead one to
complete weariness, dispassion, ending, calm, knowledge, the awakening,
the cool” – regard them unreservedly as Dhamma, the discipline, the
word of the Teacher.”

From: PTS Gradual Sayings IV, page 97, translation by E.M. Hare.

[ AN, The Book of Sevens, # 79 – The Message.]

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