Daily Buddhist Verses

• Isis

  20 Oct 08, 23:53

  Karma comes from thinking

  when one thought appears

  and you hold that thought,

  Karma begins.

  When thinking arises

  and disappears in meditation,

  you look and see that

  thinking neither appears

  nor disappears

  - Ajahn Sumedho

• An Eternal Now

  25 Oct 08, 02:03

   

  To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.

  Those who have great realization of delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about realization are sentient beings. Further, there are those who continue realizing beyond realization, who are in delusion throughout delusion.

  ~ Zen Master Dogen Zenji

• An Eternal Now

  25 Oct 08, 02:05

  Firewood becomes ash, and it does not become firewood again. Yet, do not suppose that the ash is future and the firewood past. You should understand that firewood abides in the phenomenal expression of firewood, which fully includes past and future and is independent of past and future. Ash abides in the phenomenal expression of ash, which fully includes future and past. Just as firewood does not become firewood again after it is ash, you do not return to birth after death.

  This being so, it is an established way in buddha-dharma to deny that birth turns into death. Accordingly, birth is understood as no-birth. It is an unshakable teaching in Buddha's discourse that death does not turn into birth. Accordingly, death is understood as no-death.

  Birth is an expression complete this moment. Death is an expression complete this moment. They are like winter and spring. You do not call winter the beginning of spring, nor summer the end of spring.

  ~ Zen Master Dogen Zenji

   

• An Eternal Now

  28 Oct 08, 23:06

  烦�本无体
  何须下功夫
  作当应下了
  境界�实相

  ~ by my taiwanese teacher

• An Eternal Now

  28 Oct 08, 23:08

  强断烦�,�是妄动.
  缘尽当了’方是功夫.

  ~ Thusness

   

  comments: like drawing on water, momentarily manifesting vividly, yet simultaneously gone leaving no trace

• Isis

  31 Oct 08, 11:41

  Happy is he who has lofty and noble aspirations.
  Happy is he who enriches the lives of others.
  Happy is he who allows others to live in peace.
  Happy is he who makes the world a better place to live in.
  Happy is he whose work, chores and daily tasks are labours of Love.
  Happy is he who loves love.
  ~Late Chief Venerable Dr Kirinde Sri Dhammananda Maha Nayaka Thero ~

• cycle

  3 Nov 08, 18:14

   

  [[楞严�]] 云：[ 想象为尘，纳想为垢。] 我们用文字�教育，会栽培一些学者，但�能造就�佛�者。

  虽然看很多�典，但拼命著相，没有正�惟，因此无从得到法益。由于执著自己的角度，在文字里�作文章，所以烦�断�了。

   

  ~ 慧侓法师，[ 修行法� ]

• cycle

  4 Nov 08, 12:55

  有人问我： 法师， 我能�能往生？

  我告诉他： 你问错人了，能�能往生�问你自己。

   

  ~ 慧侓法师

• cycle

  4 Nov 08, 13:03

  放下�放下，��执著这�相，应当一心念佛。世间无一物是我所有，触目所�，皆是�相，�是因缘生，因缘�，�有我们这一念正念�是我们的本性。

   

  ~ 慧侓法师    

• cycle

  5 Nov 08, 15:06

  - [[愣严�]]的[但有言说，都无实义。] 这��是万法里��常��的一��。

  - 这一�，如果会用，�个人统统是圣者，万法但有言说，都无实义。研究�典，�著文字相；��闻法，�著语言相； 看到一切外表，�著一切�相，因为都是缘起，都是无自性，四大本空，五阴无我，任何人皆然。

   

  ~ 慧侓法师， [ 修行法� ]

• cycle

  5 Nov 08, 15:14

  放下一切执�，是我们修行人一生一世的功课。

   

  ~ 阿姜.查

• cycle

  6 Nov 08, 12:26

  How come humans are unable to fully manifest the potential? Using Buddhist parlance, why are people unable to manifest their "Buddha Nature"? Because they think that there is always the next second, the next day and the next year...

   

  ~ Ven. Hui Min

   

   

• cycle

  6 Nov 08, 12:38

  As we pull over the blanket, we should think that this is the time of death and ask ourselves, 'Can I let go of all the people that I love and my priced possessions right now? Am I able to accept and forgive those people and situations that I don't like?' Constantly train ourselves ths way to detach from life and open our hearts in death agian and again.

   

  ~ Ven. Hui Min

• An Eternal Now

  7 Nov 08, 00:01

   

  Nobody can bring awareness to your life but you.

  Meditation is not a self-help program -- a way to better ourselves so we can get what we want. Nor is it a way to relax before jumping back into busyness. It's not something to do once in awhile, either, whenever you happen to feel like it.

  Instead, meditation is a practice that saturates your life and in time can be brought into every activity. It is the transformation of mind from bondage to freedom.

  In practicing meditation, we go nowhere other than right here where we now stand, where we now sit, where we now live and breathe. In meditation we return to where we already are -- this shifting, changing ever-present now.

  If you wish to take up meditation, it must be now or never.

   

  ~ Steve Hagen, "Meditation Now or Never"

• cycle

  18 Nov 08, 13:58

  人类å�ªè¦�å�‘现真ç�†è€Œæ–­æ„šç—´æ— æ˜Žï¼Œé˜²æ­¢èº«ï¼Œå�£ï¼Œæ„�造作一切æ�¶ä¸šï¼Œä¸€å¿ƒæŒ�戒，便å�¯å¾—定。 得定， 则å�¯è§‚照分明，而生智慧，最å�ŽèŽ·å¾—æ— æ¼�é�“果，超出生死轮回。 

   

  ~ 佛陀

• cycle

  18 Nov 08, 14:20

  如果对观无常下过很深功夫，一切苦都�以接�； 一切顺逆境全都是佛法。为什么？ 因为很清楚那是无常。

  长得庄严亦�会执�，因为这也是无常的。饱�欺凌也�觉得委屈，而会认为对方是在�就自己。

  对外�的�谤，批评都能泰然处之，因为那也是无常的。

  看到富人，无常； 看到俊男，无常； 美女，无常，一切皆无常。

  一直下功夫，超越一切痛苦。

   

  ~ 慧侓法师

• cycle

  20 Nov 08, 16:47

  从祖师大德��示现，我们�觉悟，人与人之间，你想�别人便宜，没有这个��。 为什么？ 你这一生�便宜，�生�还人家，真正看清楚了，没有�便宜，也没有��的。

   

  今生你的钱财被人骗去， ��难过， 你现在没有神通，昧因果， �晓得这个�因�果。 它有两��能，一�是我过去世骗他， 他今生骗我， 这个�欢欢喜喜结了； 一�是我过去生中没有骗他，但是他今生�骗我，这也没关系，�生他会还我。 这有什么好忧�的�

   

  你生活在这个世间，快快��，欢欢喜喜，没有��，也没有上当，也��到任何便宜。

  因果通三世， è¦�明白这个é�“ç�†ã€‚    

   

  ~ 净空法师， [学佛问答]

   

• cycle

  21 Nov 08, 17:23

  能�食肉，�念乃除； 能除�念，慈心斯�； 能�慈心，祥和�致； 能致祥和，�厉自无。 于是人生�寿， 皆�期于贤圣，世界清�，永能�其安�。

   

  ~ 太虚大师

• cycle

  21 Nov 08, 17:32

  三界轮回淫为本， 六�往返爱为基，��有淫就有生死， 断淫就断生死了。

   

  ~ 虚云大师

• cycle

  21 Nov 08, 17:32

  一切众生从无始�，由有���爱贪欲， 故有轮回。

   

  ~ [ 圆觉� ]

• cycle

  21 Nov 08, 17:42

  如果有人问你： 先有鸡还是先有蛋？

  你就告诉他： 是你先有无明�

   

  ~ 传喜法师

• Realmonk

  22 Nov 08, 01:04

  What is real Buddhism??

• Realmonk

  22 Nov 08, 02:00

  http://www.realbuddhism.com

• An Eternal Now

  22 Nov 08, 02:05

  Hi Realmonk, welcome to the forum. Just a question, are you really a monk?

• Realmonk

  22 Nov 08, 02:22

  Not Yet, nobody know what will happen next