Daily Buddhist Verses
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~净空法师，[认识佛教]
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When you are standing in front of the truth, arguments about your religion and my religion are as trivial as dust particles.
~ Zen Master Daehaeng
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The reason why we are not Enlightened is because we are LAZY. We do not bother to bring ourselves back to the present because we're too fascinated by the games the mind is playing. Genuine renunciation is giving up our fond thoughts, all our delight in memories, hopes and daydreams, our mental chatter. To renounce that and stay naked in the present, that is renunciation.
- Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo -
What is the ultimate method of cultivation?
What is deemed to be the ultimate cultivation? This is not an easy matter. I have yet to reach the ultimate, so if you want me to speak of the ultimate method, I am lost for words. However, I know of one way which can be described by two words: "let go". From this moment on, you learn to let go, begin let go, and continue to let go until you become Buddha. After you have become Buddha, you still continue to let go of even the Buddha. Then, surely that is the ultimate!.
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A student once asked me about the ultimate method of cultivation in Buddhism. The answer is the method of letting go. Not only do we need to practise letting go now, the present, but also the past and future. We have to let go of all the distresses in our mind. Moreover, we have to let go of all notions of possession or attachments that we have. Even when we become Bodhisattvas or attain Buddhahood, the Buddha must be given up too. This is the only way of the true Buddha-Dharma.~ Master Shen Kai
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~ 圣严法师
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True happiness is gained
when the mind experiences peace and tranquility.
It is impossible to experience this happiness
as long as fear, suspicion,
and excitement disturb the mind.
~ Ven. Dr K Sri Dhammananda
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The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still. Water that is still gives back a clear image of beard and eyebrows; reposing in the water level, it offers a measure to the great carpenter. And if water in stillness possesses such clarity, how much more must pure spirit. The sage's mind in stillness is the mirror of Heaven and earth, the glass of the ten thousand things.
~ Chuang-Tzu
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"Monks, if anyone spoke words which insult me, the Dhamma, and the Sangha, don't let this thing prompt you to hate, take revenge, and turn against them. If, because of this, you become angry or annoyed, then it will become an obstacle in your quest to liberate yourself, and cause you upset. However, if someone speaks insulting or false accusations about me, the Dhamma, and the Sangha, then you should state which is wrong and point out the mistake by explaining that because of this proof and that, then that is not true, or it is not like that, that kind of thing is not us, or occurring in us.". "But if someone praises me, the Dhamma, or the Sangha; don't let this thing make you feel proud, joyful, and happy. If you act like that, then it will become an obstacle in your efforts to achieve your own final liberation. If someone speaks like that, you should state which is right and show the fact by saying, 'Based upon this and that fact, it is indeed so; that thing does indeed exist in us, or is true about us.' (Brahmajala Sutta)
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Love Is Like a Mirror
The Mirror, as Zen masters say, is without ego and without mind. If a face comes in front of it, it reflects a face. If a table comes by, it reflects a table. It shows a crooked object to be crooked and a straight object to be straight. Everything is revealed as it really is. There is no discriminating mind or self-consciousness on the part of the mirror.
If something comes, the mirror reflects it; if it moves on, the mirror lets it move on. The mirror is always empty of itself and therefore able to receive the other. The mirror has no preconditions for entry, no preconditions for acceptance. It receives and reflects back what is there—nothing more or nothing less. The mirror is the perfect lover and the perfect contemplative. It does not evaluate, judge or act. It takes the advice of the philosopher Wittgenstein: "Don't think, just look."
If we are to see as God sees, we must first become mirrors. We must become no-thing so that we can receive some-thing. That is probably the only way that love is ever going to happen. To love demands a complete transformation of consciousness, a transformation that has been the goal of all religious founders, saints, mystics and gurus ever since we began to talk about love. And the transformation of consciousness is this: we must be liberated from ourselves.
We really need to be saved from the tyranny of our own judgments, opinions and feelings about everything, the "undisciplined squads of emotions" that T.S. Eliot criticizes in his poetry. We must stop believing our false subjectivity, which chooses to objectify everybody and everything in the world—including God and our own soul.(The likely reason why most Western individualists hate themselves: we treat our own souls as objects to be dissected, judged and perfected.)
from "Image and Likeness: The Restoration of the Divine Image" -
Dharma is not found in debating, words, or concepts.
Rest fully and mindful/aware and see for yourself... dharma is exhibited in every moment.
~ me
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There is a saying that in Buddhism,whatever is requested is granted. The truth of the matter is that the Dharma that the Buddha preached is a response to our every plea.
~ Ven. Fazhao
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No matter how successful is your worldly life, if you don't practice dharma, you will lose your whole life. -
Originally posted by justdoit77:
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Translation:
No matter how successful is your worldly life, if you don't practice dharma, you will lose your whole life.I think the translation should be more like...
No matter how successful is one in one's worldly life, as long as one doesn't learn/practice Buddhism, one is a failure.
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Ultimate cultivation...
Let go...
Even love?
Yup i am talking about love not lust...
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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 to bring endless seeking, endless longing, and endless suffering. And hence, passion, emotion, attachment, and so on. All sentient beings are like that.
But to recognise yourself (true self), in all beings, is true love. When we meet someone without seeing them as individual entities separate from us, with no labeling and no objectification, there is simply the act of love, or compassion, without separation resulting in lust. There is a 'recognition in oneness'.
The problem is we will always hold onto an idea of separation and individuality, and become totally bonded, and this strong imprint will lead to suffering, if lets say we 'lose' someone (and in actuality there is no 'one' who can lose 'some other one'). We will then be lost in our stream of endless projection of someone separate from us, leading to separation, seeking, and suffering.
But if suffering happens we cannot suppress or push it away, if suffering arise, we have to be completely honest and face the suffering fearlessly. To deny suffering is to deny What Is, and this denial will result in further suffering because there is no 'you' (a fiction) who can run away from What Is. There is only What Is at every moment... so if suffering arise at that moment, it has to be accepted.
As you can see, the problem is not in love itself, but in the illusion of separation, grasping on individuality, lust, resulting in suffering.
I am myself far from being free from such illusions, but I know of people who have reached that level. They are awakened. As longchen said,
Yes, a fully enlightened being will not view what that is being see as external.
There is no inner and outer. Likewise there is no separate persons and things out there.
There is no out there. There is no inside. All is one reality.
That being said, as a lay person, it's important not to be too attached to someone or anything, and contemplate on the impermanence and death. But the ultimate 'solution' is not throwing away your wife or belongings (I know of many enlightened people who still have family and children), it is to realise deeply the non-dual reality, without separation, without self and others, without birth and dying, coming or going... the non-dual reality that encompasses everything. It transform our 'dualistic love' to the great love of Bodhisattvas, which is non-dualistic, and unconditional for all beings.
Vimalakirti Sutra:
Thereupon, Manjusri, the crown prince, addressed the Licchavi Vimalakirti: "Good sir, how should a bodhisattva regard all living beings?"
Vimalakirti replied, "Manjusri, a bodhisattva should regard all livings beings as a wise man regards the reflection of the moon in water or as magicians regard men created by magic. He should regard them as being like a face in a mirror; like the water of a mirage; like the sound of an echo; like a mass of clouds in the sky; like the previous moment of a ball of foam; like the appearance and disappearance of a bubble of water; like the core of a plantain tree; like a flash of lightning; like the fifth great element; like the seventh sense-medium; like the appearance of matter in an immaterial realm; like a sprout from a rotten seed; like a tortoise-hair coat; like the fun of games for one who wishes to die; like the egoistic views of a stream-winner; like a third rebirth of a once-returner; like the descent of a nonreturner into a womb; like the existence of desire, hatred, and folly in a saint; like thoughts of avarice, immorality, wickedness, and hostility in a bodhisattva who has attained tolerance; like the instincts of passions in a Tathagata; like the perception of color in one blind from birth; like the inhalation and exhalation of an ascetic absorbed in the meditation of cessation; like the track of a bird in the sky; like the erection of a eunuch; like the pregnancy of a barren woman; like the unproduced passions of an emanated incarnation of the Tathagata; like dream-visions seen after waking; like the passions of one who is free of conceptualizations; like fire burning without fuel; like the reincarnation of one who has attained ultimate liberation.
"Precisely thus, Manjusri, does a bodhisattva who realizes the ultimate selflessness consider all beings."
Manjusri then asked further, "Noble sir, if a bodhisattva considers all living beings in such a way, how does he generate the great love toward them?"
Vimalakirti replied, "Manjusri, when a bodhisattva considers all living beings in this way, he thinks: 'Just as I have realized the Dharma, so should I teach it to living beings.' Thereby, he generates the love that is truly a refuge for all living beings; the love that is peaceful because free of grasping; the love that is not feverish, because free of passions; the love that accords with reality because it is equanimous in all three times; the love that is without conflict because free of the violence of the passions; the love that is nondual because it is involved neither with the external nor with the internal; the love that is imperturbable because totally ultimate.
"Thereby he generates the love that is firm, its high resolve unbreakable, like a diamond; the love that is pure, purified in its intrinsic nature; the love that is even, its aspirations being equal; the saint's love that has eliminated its enemy; the bodhisattva's love that continuously develops living beings; The Tathagata's love that understands reality; the Buddha's love that causes living beings to awaken from their sleep; the love that is spontaneous because it is fully enlightened spontaneously; the love that is enlightenment because it is unity of experience; the love that has no presumption because it has eliminated attachment and aversion; the love that is great compassion because it infuses the Mahayana with radiance; the love that is never exhausted because it acknowledges voidness and selflessness; the love that is giving because it bestows the gift of Dharma free of the tight fist of a bad teacher; the love that is morality because it improves immoral living beings; the love that is tolerance because it protects both self and others; the love that is effort because it takes responsibility for all living beings; the love that is contemplation because it refrains from indulgence in tastes; the love that is wisdom because it causes attainment at the proper time; the love that is liberative technique because it shows the way everywhere; the love that is without formality because it is pure in motivation; the love that is without deviation because it acts from decisive motivation; the love that is high resolve because it is without passions; the love that is without deceit because it is not artificial; the love that is happiness because it introduces living beings to the happiness of the Buddha. Such, Manjusri, is the great love of a bodhisattva."
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Hmm... If there is true love, doesn't that means our wife is no different from all other mankind?
sorry if anything i said is offending cus well... i dun really know religious well...
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Originally posted by popikachu:
Hmm... If there is true love, doesn't that means our wife is no different from all other mankind?
sorry if anything i said is offending cus well... i dun really know religious well...
You will still live happily with your wife/husband, you still love him/her and can show care and affection, but you will not be lost in the illusion of separation and individuality, seeking and suffering. One gradually lets go of strong grasping, but it doesn't mean 'indifference' and 'no concern'. You are still as concerned as before.
Because of having lived with your family for a long time, of course the way you relate to your family is still different from how you relate to others. It's all 'conditions'/yuan, which sometimes become related with 'affinity'. A family shows an affection and concern for each other unlike outside a family.
But certainly realisation can 'widen one's scope' and lead to an all encompassing and unconditional love, if you're a bodhisattva. Certainly I don't expect a true bodhisattva showing love for his children while being an asshole to other motherly sentient beings.
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haha thanks bro...
though still not 100% understand, but at least i understand a lot more now ^^
i sure i will understand and experience it one day ^^
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Hehe... I also don't understand alot.... I also hope I will experience it one day. lol
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Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
But if suffering happens we cannot suppress or push it away, if suffering arise, we have to be completely honest and face the suffering fearlessly. To deny suffering is to deny What Is, and this denial will result in further suffering because there is no 'you' (a fiction) who can run away from What Is. There is only What Is at every moment... so if suffering arise at that moment, it has to be accepted.
And if suffering arise, the only way is to be so complete present with our pain without denying anything, just stay at bare naked awareness of our present experience without labelling and judging as good or bad. To be so totally present that the bonds and projections can gradually subside.
We have to train ourselves in the first place, to be completely present in our everyday living, not to live in our projections and dreams. Otherwise when suffering comes, we'll not be any better, i.e. our 'painful stories' will repeat itself over and over again in our heads.
We have to know a different mode of knowing, an effortless, silence, blissful, complete clarity pervading our field of awareness, that every cells of our body and everything we see and feel, feels alive, is aliveness itself. The perfect, silent, brilliant wholeness experienced void of a self feels so complete and blissful that the dead story of an 'I' will not 'appeal' that much any longer.
Thusness: ...To drop the bondage/deep conditionings, the mind MUST realise that another way of 'knowing' is possible; an effortless, total sensing and experience of wholeness. Next the experiences of the joy, bliss and clarity of wholeness. Without the insight into the possiblity and the experience of the positive factors, the mind will not release itself from holding...
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The reason why we are not Enlightened is because we are LAZY. We do not bother to bring ourselves back to the present because we're too fascinated by the games the mind is playing. Genuine renunciation is giving up our fond thoughts, all our delight in memories, hopes and daydreams, our mental chatter. To renounce that and stay naked in the present, that is renunciation.
- Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo-----------------------It's not that"I" hear the birds,
it's just hearing the birds.
Let yourself be hearing, seeing, thinking.
It is the false "I" that interrupts the
wonder with the constant
desire to think about "I."
And all the while THE WONDER
is occurring:
the birds sing, the cars go by,
the body sensations continue,
the heart is beating --
life is a second-by-second miracle.
But dreaming our "I" dreams
we miss it.We have to be willing to be on the cutting edge,
just being there with whatever comes up in each moment.
Pride, greed, arrogance, pain, joy --
don't try to manipulate what comes up in meditation.
By sitting with as much awareness as we can muster, attachments in time
just wither away.~ Charlotte Joko Beck
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The way Buddha taught the four noble truths they contain two sequences - one of suffering, which we seek to abandon, and one of happiness, which we seek to adopt.
~ The Dalai Lama
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Wisdom comes through recognition of ignorance.
~ Ven. Dr K Sri Dhammananda
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“What has to be known, that I have known;
What has to be abandoned, that I have abandoned;
What has to be developed, that I have developed;
Therefore, O brahmin, I am a Buddha.”
~ Shakyamuni Buddha