Daily Buddhist Verses

• An Eternal Now

  15 Feb 08, 23:13

  As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing,
  thinking or not-thinking,
  'meditating' or 'not-meditating'
  you are no closer to home
  than the day you were born.

  ~ Wei Wu Wei

• An Eternal Now

  19 Feb 08, 18:51

  While you are busy being distracted, the demon of death will catch you; People of Tingri, practice from this moment onward.

  
  Padampa Sangye
• Isis

  20 Feb 08, 00:19

  Diverse sufferings are like the death of a child in a dream. By apprehending illusory appearances as real, one becomes weary. Therefore, when encountering disagreeable circumstances, viewing them as illusory is the bodhisattvas' practice

• cycle

  21 Feb 08, 14:35

  念佛既是�求身����在一起，所以走路最好��念佛，好好走路，开车时好好开车；有的人走路念佛出了事，�怪阿弥陀佛没有�护他，须知阿弥陀佛�是�镖。

   

  ~白云禅师，解惑篇  

• Isis

  21 Feb 08, 22:27

  Better than reciting a hundred meaningless verses is the reciting of one verse of Dhamma, hearing which one attains peace.

  - The Buddha, Dhammapada Verse 102

   

  Defilement assail us every moment. The only antidote is to be mindful.

  - Venerable Bodhi

   

  Calm is his thought, calm his speech, and calm his deed, who, truly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly tranquil and wise.

  - The Buddha Dhammapda Verse 96

   

• cycle

  25 Feb 08, 15:11

  很多医生，侓师��过高深教育的人士都宣称他们有丰富的知识，无所�知。

  我�问他们，你们死�，身归何处？

   

  ~ ç¦�é¾™èˆ�利比丘   

• cycle

  25 Feb 08, 15:31

  世间最悲哀的一件事是：人类已�活了亿万年，但是对于自己的心识，生从何�，死从何去�真实需�何物�一无所知。

   

  ~ç¦�é¾™èˆ�利比丘  

• cycle

  26 Feb 08, 19:46

  Practising Dharma is not difficult or time-consuming. We always have time; there are always 24 hours in a day. If we direct our mind in a positive direction, we can transform whatever action we do onto the path to enlightenment. In this way, the Dharma becomes part of our life in an organic way. Getting up in the morning is Dharma, eating and going to work is Dharma, sleeping is Dharma. By transforming our attitude in the midst of daily activities, our life becomes very meaningful.

   

  ~  Ven Thubten Chodron, Transforming our Daily Activities

• cycle

  27 Feb 08, 13:50

  我们��对现实，而�是逃�现实，逃�是�背因果的。

  ~圣严法师

• cycle

  27 Feb 08, 14:11

  众生在迷妄中，执常执我，�情�所播弄，所以引生内心无�的忧苦。解脱忧苦，根本是智慧，通达缘起性空的智慧。

   

  ~ �顺导师，[佛在人间]

• An Eternal Now

  27 Feb 08, 15:35

  Ordinary people are perpetually in a state if mental distraction, their minds scattered.  When one meditates, on the other hand, the greatest obstacles come from additional mental productions, from the commentaries one makes on oneself, and one's preconceptions.  Genuine meditation is avoidance of distraction as well as of any additional mental activity.

  ~ Bokar Rinpoche

• cycle

  28 Feb 08, 13:22

  如果我们相信动物是为我们而生，那么人类也是为动物而生，因为有些动物以食人肉为生。

   

  ~è�™æ‘©éš¾é™€æ³•å¸ˆï¼Œ [佛教徒的信仰] 

• cycle

  28 Feb 08, 13:34

  生活在怨�中，而没有怨�，是真正快�的生活。在怨�的人群中，我们�在无怨�中。

   

  ~[法��] V.197

• Bodhi hut

  1 Mar 08, 03:02

  在学佛当中我们也其实在修我们的�德，以下是本人对修�德的��曲；
  
  对父��有�义，
  对长辈�有尊�，
  对妻儿�有爱�，
  对情人�有诚�，
  对兄弟�有忠义，
  对朋��有��，
  对�师�有敬�，
  对大家�和气，
  对自己�努力，
  对犯错�有悔�，
  对失败��放弃，
  对社会尽点绵力，
  对公益出点薄利，
  对生命�知真�，
  对佛学�有心力，
  对我无须感到谢�，
  我�花了一点手力。

• cycle

  4 Mar 08, 14:12

  According to the Buddha, each and every person is responsible for his own suffering. They are suffering here today because of their strong craving for existence, as craving for existence influences them to commit unwholesome deeds. Thus is the main cause of suffering. It has taken more than 2500 years for many philosophers and psychologists to understand that what the Buddha said was indeed true. A poet analysed our life in the following way.

  To the fire flies the moth

  Knows not it will die.

  Little fish bites the hook

  Knows not of the danger

  But though knowing well

  The danger of these evil worldly pleasures,

  We still cling to them so firmly

  Oh how great is our folly! 

   

  ~Ven. Dr k Sri Dhammananda, The Purpose of Life

• cycle

  5 Mar 08, 21:07

  Where there is suffering, there is peace and bliss, by letting go and experience it for numberless suffering sentient beings. Always think of how others are kind and precious. Treat them as you would like to be treated. With this practice, the beautiful lotus heart blossom and the happiness sun shines delightfully in your life.

   

  ~ Lama Zopa Rinpoche

• goldevil

  9 Mar 08, 20:26

  mind must be emptied before wisdom can be gained .

   

• An Eternal Now

  10 Mar 08, 01:38

  Put It All Down

  
  A princess once came to ask the Buddha for meditation instruction. She had brought with her fine sandalwood incense and rare jewels and other stuff that she thought would make an appropriate offering to such a famous teacher. She wanted to present all of this to the Buddha personally, so instead of having one of her servants carry it (which is what she normally would have done) she carried all of it herself.
  
  When she came to the Buddha she had both arms full of these expensive and exotic goodies. The Buddha looked up at her and asked her why she had come. She said that she wanted the Buddha to teach her how to meditate. The Buddha then said simply "Put it down." So she put down one arm-load of her offerings - right at the Buddha's feet. Then the Buddha said again, "Put it down." So she put down the rest of her offerings at the Buddha's feet. Then the Buddha said "Put it all down."
  
  There was a famous Korean Zen Master named Seung Sahn (he was my teacher's teacher) - he was very fond of this teaching phrase "put it all down." He said it all the time. Sometimes it seemed like it was all he ever said! One time a student asked Zen Master Seung Sahn, "But HOW do I 'put it all down'?" Zen Master Seung Sahn replied, "Put THAT down, too."

   

  source of quote http://www.furnacemountain.org/basics.html

• An Eternal Now

  10 Mar 08, 02:01

  Traditional case koan from the Gateless Gate, Case 15: Tozan’s Sixty Blows

  
  Tõzan came to study with Unmon. Unmon asked, "Where are you from?"
  "From Sato," Tõzan replied.
  "Where were you during the summer?"
  "Well, I was at the monastery of Hõzu, south of the lake."
  "When did you leave there," Unmon asked.
  "On August 25" was Tõzan's reply.
  "I spare you sixty blows," Unmon said.
  The next day Tõzan came to Unmon and said, "Yesterday you said you spared me sixty blows. I beg to ask you, where was I at fault?"
  "Oh, you rice bag!" shouted Unmon. "What makes you wander about, now west of the river, now south of the lake?"
  Tõzan thereupon came to a mighty enlightenment experience.

• An Eternal Now

  11 Mar 08, 01:27

  Six Points of Tilopa:

  
  Do not recall,
  Do not think,
  Do not anticipate,
  Do not meditate,
  Do not analyze,
  Do rest naturally

• cycle

  13 Mar 08, 13:21

  About this mind...in truth there is really nothing wrong with it. It is intrinsically pure. Within itself is already peaceful. Our practice is simply to see the Original Mind. So we must train the mind to know the sense impressions and not to get lost in them; to make it peaceful (at peace with them). Just this, is the aim of all this difficult practice we put ourselves through.

   

  ~ Ven. Ajahn Chah

• An Eternal Now

  17 Mar 08, 13:27

  

• cycle

  26 Mar 08, 13:52

  何为生？何为死？问我这个问题，还�如问你自己，��在死上�花脑筋，因该怎么样去把�活�的这 几�年， 你如果活�的这几�年把�好的�，死有何�？活�时�去�好的�，那就一天到晚会担心害怕。

   

  ~白云�襌师

   

• cycle

  26 Mar 08, 14:18

  在家的信士，应注�的，乃在评论佛弟�尤其是出家人的�守问文题。在家人�得说出家人的过�，如其过�属实，亦���人便说；如果缺�由�，由闻，由疑而�的确实罪�，人云亦云，或扑风�影地说��人犯戒者，他自己便首先犯了无根（ �，闻，疑，称为�罪的三根）谤人罪。谤得越�，自己得罪也越�。

   

  ~圣严法师，五戒�善

• cycle

  27 Mar 08, 16:39

  A kind heart is one of the principal things we are trying to develop. If we run around childishly telling others: "I'm this religion, and you're that religion. But, mine is better," it is like turning chocolate frosting into garbage: what was delicious becomes useless. ~ Ven Thubten Chodron