Daily Buddhist Verses
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*sorry this post was not a verse, more of my minor understanding*
was randomly picking and reading a book. A monk asked another monk, "has a dog buddha-nature or not?"
The other monk replied,"No"
i was quite puzzled... why...? I continued to read and i realized it is to declutter our thoughts, perceptions actually
once there is no random thoughts- the mind suddenly becomes clear... and "clean"
pardon my lack of words to describe this state... i'm not very familiar with chan but i think it's intriguing, sometimes mind-boggling but fun -
Originally posted by 2009novice:[The Buddha:]Over and over, the seeds all get planted;Over and over, the rain-god sprinkles rain.Over and over, the farmer farms the field;Over and over, the food grows in the realm.Over and over, beggars do their begging;Over and over, the givers give out gifts.Over and over, the giver who has given;Over and over, goes to a better place.Over and over, he tires and he struggles;Over and over, the fool goes to the womb.Over and over, he's born and he dies;Over and over, they bear him to his grave.But one who's wisdom is wide as the earth Is not born over and over,For he's gained the path Of not becoming over again.
nice quote!
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Originally posted by sinweiy:
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Dogen: Impermanence is Buddha-nature.
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"It is enough to cause you bewilderment, Vaccha, enough to cause you confusion. For this Dhamma, Vaccha, is profound, hard to see and hard to understand, peaceful and sublime, unattainable by mere reasoning, subtle, to be experienced by the wise. It is hard for you to understand it when you hold another view, accept another teaching, approve of another teaching, pursue a different training, and follow a different teacher..."
Majjhima Nikaya 72.18 (Aggivacchagotta Sutta)
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The compassion is strength of generosity,
The compassion is strength of moral ethics,
The compassion is strength of patience,
The compassion is strength of perseverance,
The compassion is strength of concentration,
The compassion is strength of wisdom!
That's why we need big compassion and love all sentient being
This is the root of boddhisattva way !
Khenpo Thubten Dorji -
A nice verse from Sister Upacala :)
on why reborning in the devas is still bonded to sensuality, tied by craving
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Originally posted by 2009novice:
*sorry this post was not a verse, more of my minor understanding*
was randomly picking and reading a book. A monk asked another monk, "has a dog buddha-nature or not?"
The other monk replied,"No"
i was quite puzzled... why...? I continued to read and i realized it is to declutter our thoughts, perceptions actually
once there is no random thoughts- the mind suddenly becomes clear... and "clean"
pardon my lack of words to describe this state... i'm not very
familiar with chan but i think it's intriguing, sometimes
mind-boggling but funinteresting perspective. hmm
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Originally posted by 2009novice:
remind me, though not from Buddhist, but i think quite ch'an too.student: when asked if ur mother and ur wife fell into the water for example, who u save?
teacher: Leave the scene.
student: what!? crazy.
(the theory is as without you in the middle, there would not be any such dilemma. both are attached to u.)/\
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"Four Zen monks were meditating in a monastery. All of a sudden the prayer flag on the roof started flapping. The younger monk came out of his meditation and said: "Flag is flapping" A more experienced monk said: "Wind is flapping" A third monk who had been there for more than 20 years said: "Mind is flapping." The fourth monk who was the eldest said, visibly annoyed: "Mouths are flapping!"
enlightenment is to turn around and see your own shortcoming.
Better to see one fault in oneself,
Than a thousand faults in others.
- Dhammapada
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"And how does one not engage with people in quarrelsome debate? There is the case where a certain person is not a fomenter of this kind of debate: 'You understand this doctrine & discipline? I'm the one who understands this doctrine & discipline. How could you understand this doctrine & discipline? You're practicing wrongly. I'm practicing rightly. What should be said first you said last. What should be said last you said first. I'm being consistent. You're not. What you took so long to think out has been refuted. Your doctrine has been overthrown. You're defeated. Go and try to salvage your doctrine, or extricate yourself if you can!' This is how one does not engage with people in quarrelsome debate.
Haliddakani Sutta: To Haliddakani
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Originally posted by sinweiy:
remind me, though not from Buddhist, but i think quite ch'an too.student: when asked if ur mother and ur wife fell into the water for example, who u save?
teacher: Leave the scene.
student: what!? crazy.
(the theory is as without you in the middle,
there would not be any such dilemma. both are attached to u.)/\
thanks for sharing
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The knowing is precisely the known and vice versa.
Only in ignorance does the knowing appear to co-locate with the known.
If both are realized as mere conventions that arise in dependence of the other,
Then the middle way that severs the extremes can be understood.
~ Thusness -
Thusness:
In ignorance, there is hearer hearing sound.
In anatta, in hearing, only sound.
Yet sound has no true inherent nature (empty),
It is an activity and is that very activity call “hearing”.
Both “hearing and sound” are pointing to the same activity.
Only when seen to have true existence on either side does confusion arise.
In Madhyamaka Emptiness, reification is seen through.
Yet the experiential state of freedom from reification is not expounded.
However one can have a taste of that freedom from arising insight of anatta since anatta is precisely the freedom from reification of Self/self (First fold Emptiness).
In anatta, seeing is simply the full scenery, in hearing only sound…
thus, always only lights, shape, colors, sounds, scents… in clean purity.
Emptying the object further (second fold) is merely dissolving subtle bond of “externality” that creates the appearance of true existence of objects outside. When “externality” is deconstructed, it is effectively a double confirmation of anatta…
…innerly coreless and outward empty, all appearances are still simply sound, lights, colors and rays
In thorough deconstruction, as there is no layer that reifies, there is no conceptuality. Therefore no complication, no confusion, no stains, no boundaries, no center, no sense of dual..
no sense of activity…just self arising.
All collapse into a single sphere of natural presence and spontaneous simplicity.
Whatever appears is
neither here nor now,
Neither in nor out,
Neither arises nor ceases,
In the same space…
non-local, timeless and dimensionless
Simply present…
To Jax:
The place where there is no earth, fire, wind, space, water…
is the place where the earth, fire, wind, space and water kills “You” and fully shines as its own radiance, a complete taste of itself and fully itself.
Lastly, it is interesting to get know something about Dzogchen however the jargons and tenets are far beyond me.
Just wrote due to a sudden spurt of interest, nothing intense.
Thanks for all the sharing and exchanges.
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From the beginning all beings are Buddha.-Hui Neng
The nature of mind is Buddha from the beginning.-Garab Dorje
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"And what, lord, is the cause, what the requisite condition, for the defilement of beings? How are beings defiled with cause, with requisite condition?"
"Mahali, if form were exclusively stressful — followed by stress, infused with stress and not infused with pleasure — beings would not be infatuated with form. But because form is also pleasurable — followed by pleasure, infused with pleasure and not infused with stress — beings are infatuated with form. Through infatuation, they are captivated. Through captivation, they are defiled. This is the cause, this the requisite condition, for the defilement of beings. And this is how beings are defiled with cause, with requisite condition.
"If feeling were exclusively stressful...
"If perception were exclusively stressful...
"If fabrications were exclusively stressful...
"If consciousness were exclusively stressful — followed by stress, infused with stress and not infused with pleasure — beings would not be infatuated with consciousness. But because consciousness is also pleasurable — followed by pleasure, infused with pleasure and not infused with stress — beings are infatuated with consciousness. Through infatuation, they are captivated. Through captivation, they are defiled. This is the cause, this the requisite condition, for the defilement of beings. And this is how beings are defiled with cause, with requisite condition."
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"Now, Ananda, in as far as a monk does not assume feeling to be the self, nor the self as oblivious, nor that 'My self feels, in that my self is subject to feeling,' then, not assuming in this way, he is not sustained by anything (does not cling to anything) in the world. Unsustained, he is not agitated. Unagitated, he is totally unbound right within. He discerns that 'Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.'
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"A bhikkhu, Meghiya, who is established in these five things should also cultivate four additional things: foulness should be cultivated for overcoming lust; loving-kindness should be cultivated for overcoming malevolence; respiration-mindfulness should be cultivated for cutting off (discursive) thinking; the perception of impermanence should be cultivated for the removal of the conceit 'I am.' For when one perceives impermanence, Meghiya, the perception of not-self is established. When one perceives not-self one reaches the removal of the conceit 'I am,' which is called Nibbana here and now." Ud 4.1 PTS: Ud 34 http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .irel.html -
To lack mindfulness is to sleep in an ocean of urine.
To lack mindfulness is to be like a heartless corpse.
Friends, please be mindful!
Through the aspiration of the supreme guru, may all
friends attain firm mindfulness!
-Nyoshul Khen -
The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us when we live
-Norman Cousins
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Karma is perpetuated through habits of grasping and clinging. It's sustained by sentient beings out of sheer ignorance [avidy�], the mind beguiled by avidy� perceived duality and therefore acts and reacts from within that delusion. Those actions, along with the subtle habits which sustain the ignorance, are one's karma. The fact that karma is empty or impermanent is of little value, to overcome karma the mind which is trapped in delusion must be recognized as empty so that the foundation for karma's proliferation is disarmed. Then stabilization and familiarization with that will make it so a) new karma isn't being generated and/or b) the influence of karma which is being created is greatly diminished. Once stable, karma then has to exhaust itself, the fuel which kept the fire going is removed so karma just burns out. That means past traces will have to surface too. ~ Kyle Dixon
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妄尽还原是大圆满(when wandering thoughts are exhausted and one return to it's natural state IS Dzogchen) - MCK
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Dombhi Heruka's Four Syllables:
The Upadeśa of the Great Bliss of Dharma
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There are three essences, four commitments, three deviations and four methods of equipoise.
The three essences:
Effortlessness;
Without contrivance;
Everything that occurs is understood as one's own mind.
The four commitments:
Afflictions are not abandoned because they are one's mind.
Antidotes are not relied upon because the mind is non-dual.
The true nature is not meditated upon because mind is without grasping.
A result is not hoped for, realizing the mind itself is Buddhahood.
The three deviations:
If there is hope for Buddhahood, it is a deviation.
If there is fear towards Samsara, it is a deviation.
If there is attachment to appearances, it is a deviation.
The four methods of equipoise:
Just like the limpid quality of water when it is undisturbed, remain relaxed in uncontrived mind.
Just as a bird in the sky leaves no tracks, consciousness remains without support.
Just like the sun not concealed by clouds, remain in one’s own unobstructed state relaxing into the objects of the six sense organs.
Just like water always falling, remain undistracted at all times and in all activities.
The heart upadesha of the great master Dombhi Heruka called 'Four Syllables' is complete.
Translated by Lama Migmar Tseten and Loppon Kunga Namdrol.
© Drogmi translation Project 2006