Daily Buddhist Verses

• An Eternal Now

  20 May 13, 17:56

  Is it that there are various ways of seeing one object, or is it that we have mistaken various images for one object? --Dogen

• 2009novice

  3 Jun 13, 23:39

  "There are, O monks, these three feelings: pleasant, painful and neither-painful-nor-pleasant. Pleasant feelings should be known as painful, painful feelings should be known as a thorn, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings should be known as impermanent. If a monk has known the feelings in such a way, it is said of him that he has the right outlook. He has cut off craving, severed the fetters (to existence) and, through the full penetration of conceit, he has made an end of suffering."

  Datthabba Sutta: To Be Known

• An Eternal Now

  1 Jul 13, 02:23

  For example, if someone is born in a country where even the name Dharma does not exist, what is there to do? If a sentient being is not born a human being, what is there to do? If one is born without sense organs, etc., what is there to do? There is no exhortation to supply conditions lacking in a human birth to make it "precious". You either have them or you don't. All of them are a result of karma, not one of them is a result of any kind of social activism. If you find you have the eighteen qualifications, then you should practice the Dharma. One either has these eighteen factors or one doesn't. If one has them, don't waste time on non-Dharmic activities.

• 2009novice

  2 Jul 13, 21:48

  诸行无常，无常故苦，苦故无我，无我无我所

• An Eternal Now

  6 Jul 13, 03:46

  AN 2.30:
  
  These two qualities have a share in clear knowing. Which two? Tranquillity (samatha) & insight (vipassan�).
  
  When tranquillity is developed, what purpose does it serve? The mind is developed. And when the mind is developed, what purpose does it serve? Passion is abandoned.
  
  When insight is developed, what purpose does it serve? Discernment is developed. And when discernment is developed, what purpose does it serve? Ignorance is abandoned.

• JCGurl

  30 Jul 13, 18:15

  i,I aHm new here and I am interested in learning more about the teachings of Buddhism.Hope that I would a fruitful time of learning from the people here haha.

• An Eternal Now

  31 Jul 13, 08:38

  Welcome! Feel free to discuss and ask anything
• Ngenestephie1

  26 Aug 13, 20:52

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• Metta with Mindfulness

  1 Sep 13, 21:48

  When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you’re not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You’re drinking your projects, you’re drinking your worries. You are not real, and the cof...fee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real.

  
  This is genuine tea drinking.
  
  ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

• Metta with Mindfulness

  1 Sep 13, 22:01

  當我們愈深入檢視念頭�感覺和情緒，就愈有機會瞭解它們的空性本質。�使是強烈或長期的情緒也�泡沫一般。它們看似有形，內在�是空無一物。最後，泡沫破裂，看到的是無�的虛空，�離爭執和��。這是喜悅的覺醒，雖然無法訴諸文字，�是完全清晰�永�覺性的體驗。
  
  ��明就�波切《你是幸�的》p.244

• 2009novice

  24 Nov 13, 23:38

  從生到死有多�
  呼�之间

  
  從迷到悟有多�
  一念之间

  
  從爱到�有多�
  无常之间

  
  從�到今有多�
  笑談之间

  
  從你到我有多�
  善解之间

  
  從心到心有多�
  天地之间

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7yfrN2dNAA

• 2009novice

  25 Nov 13, 23:07

  你是在修养，还是在修行？

  很多人把修养当�了修行，

  对人慈颜善语，�让�就，

  对己严于自律，谨言慎行。

  人们会说他修行得很好，

  但他的内心�并�自在，

  甚至觉得“修行”好辛苦，

  因为他�是在练修养而已�

   

  修养是ç�†æ™ºçš„“ç�†å…¥”，

  以�自制，�礼勿视，�礼勿�，

  应该怎样，�该怎样，

  用一大堆的��管�自己，

  实质上�是压�烦�，

  说得难å�¬ç‚¹å°±æ˜¯“装”。

  祖师们说这是“石头压è�‰”，

  那个烦�的�根还在，

  无明习气的��还在，

  越压越多，越压越�弹，

  ä¸�知什么时候就翻腾出æ�¥ã€‚ 

   

  修行则是智慧的“行入”，

  转烦�为��。

  因为“ç…§è§�五蕴皆空”，

  烦�本性也是空，

  所以处烦�而�乱，

  嬉笑怒骂都是清净心，

  内心如如�动。

  也许他还会骂人，

  但他�使�脾气，

  当下境界也都了了分明，

  心里并�起无明之�，

   

  修养在外相，修行在内心，

  修养是对他人的看法负责，

  修行是对自己的生命负责， 

  修养是世间法，人间�，

  修行是出世法，解脱�。

  你是在修养，还是在修行？

  行起��

  （文：��一�）

  http://www.aiweibang.com/yuedu/qita/175211.html

• 2009novice

  6 Jan 14, 22:35

  "Now what, lady, lies on the other side of pleasant feeling?"

  "Passion lies on the other side of pleasant feeling."

  "And what lies on the other side of painful feeling?"

  "Resistance lies on the other side of painful feeling." [7]

  "What lies on the other side of neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling?"

  "Ignorance lies on the other side of neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling."

  Culavedalla Sutta MN44

• 2009novice

  6 Jan 14, 22:47

  "Furthermore, a person of no integrity is learned... a master of the Vinaya... a Dhamma-speaker. He notices, 'I am a Dhamma-speaker, but these other monks are not Dhamma-speakers. He exalts himself for being a Dhamma-speaker and disparages others. This is the quality of a person of no integrity.

  "But a person of integrity notices, 'It's not through being a Dhamma-speaker that the quality of greed goes to its end; it's not through being a Dhamma-speaker that the quality of aversion... the quality of delusion goes to its end. Even though one is not a Dhamma-speaker, if — practicing the Dhamma in line with the Dhamma, practicing masterfully — he is one who follows the Dhamma, he is to be honored for that, praised for that.' So, giving priority just to the practice, he neither exalts himself for being a Dhamma-speaker nor disparages others. This is the quality of a person of integrity.

   

  Sappurisa Sutta MN 113

• LittleMissDaze215

  14 Jan 14, 01:26

  Wishing you a boundless new year everyone!  Thank you all for your kind dedication and spiritual advice!  Wishing all beings gain illumination and spiritual insight!

• Chasitylvan

  23 Jan 14, 17:18

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• 2009novice

  24 Feb 14, 22:58

  AN 2.119: Dullabha Sutta - A grateful person is hard to find

  "Monks, these two people are hard to find in the world. Which two? The one who is first to do a kindness, and the one who is grateful for a kindness done and feels obligated to repay it. These two people are hard to find in the world."

• Selenabreman

  21 May 14, 12:01

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• Alberttee1986

  2 Jun 14, 21:02

  AMitaha

• 2009novice

  7 Jun 14, 00:00

  There is the case where a monk sees any form whatsoever that is past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle; common or sublime; far or near — every form — as it actually is with right discernment as: 'This is not mine. This is not my self. This is not what I am.'

  "He sees any feeling whatsoever...

  "He sees any perception whatsoever...

  "He sees any fabrications whatsoever...

  "He sees any consciousness whatsoever that is past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle; common or sublime; far or near — every consciousness — as it actually is with right discernment as: 'This is not mine. This is not my self. This is not what I am.'

  AN 4.181

  PTS: A ii 170

  Yodhajiva Sutta: The Warrior
• Dragon movie14

  12 Jun 14, 18:54

  can i post my topic

• rosalyn

  17 Jun 14, 16:03

  Thanks for sharing all these wise, Buddhist verses <3

• An Eternal Now

  20 Jun 14, 10:38

  Dudjom Lingpa elucidates:
  “Having simply identified vidyÄ� [rig pa], some people, who lack even a trace of any meditation, claim they have experienced the extinction into dharmatÄ� and there is nothing more to spiritual awakening than this. That is an enormous mistake! The qualities of realization mature through the power of gradual practice. This is how you must reach the state of liberation."
  
  Or as Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche states:
  "Purification happens through training on the path. We have strayed from the basis and become sentient beings. To free the basis from what obscures it, we have to train. Right now, we are on the path and have not yet attained the result. When we are freed from obscuration, then the result - dharmak�ya - appears... The seed holds the potential for the flower's color, smell, bud and leaves. However, can we say that the seed is the result of the flower? No, we cannot, because the flower has not fully bloomed. Like this analogy, the qualities of the result are contained in the state of the basis; yet, they are not evident or manifest. That is the difference between the basis and the result. At the time of the path, if we do not apply effort, the result will not appear."

• AndyC999

  30 Jun 14, 10:30

  阿弥陀佛

   

• Fire yp Lim

  18 Jul 14, 22:12

  any easiest and fastest way to become Buddha?