Live and practice ardently

• An Eternal Now

  11 Jul 12, 21:04

  Buddha:

  You shouldn't chase after the past or place expectations on the future. What is past is left behind. The future is as yet unreached. Whatever quality is present you clearly see right there, right there. Not taken in, unshaken, that's how you develop the heart. Ardently doing what should be done today, for — who knows? — tomorrow death. There is no bargaining with Mortality & his mighty horde. Whoever lives thus ardently, relentlessly both day & night, has truly had an auspicious day: so says the Peaceful Sage.

  - http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.131.than.html

• sinweiy

  12 Jul 12, 08:50

  应无所�，而生其心

  Diamond sutra:

  "Therefore, Buddha said, all bodhisattvas should develop a pure, lucid mind that alights upon nothing whatsoever. "

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  "Therefore bodhisattvas should leave behind all phenomenal distinctions and awaken the thought of enlightenment by not allowing the mind to depend upon notions evoked by the sensible world.

  The mind should be kept independent of any thoughts that arise within it, or it has no sure haven. "

  http://www.selfdiscoveryportal.com/cmDiamondSutra.htm

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• MIMI the Garfield cat

  12 Jul 12, 08:59

  Originally posted by An Eternal Now:

  Buddha:

  You shouldn't chase after the past or place expectations on the future. What is past is left behind. The future is as yet unreached. Whatever quality is present you clearly see right there, right there. Not taken in, unshaken, that's how you develop the heart. Ardently doing what should be done today, for — who knows? — tomorrow death. There is no bargaining with Mortality & his mighty horde. Whoever lives thus ardently, relentlessly both day & night, has truly had an auspicious day: so says the Peaceful Sage.

  - http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.131.than.html

  
  Wow,,superb,, beautiful,, this article.. Thank you An Eternal Now
• bycai

  12 Jul 12, 12:54

  Originally posted by sinweiy:

  应无所�，而生其心

  Diamond sutra:

  "Therefore, Buddha said, all bodhisattvas should develop a pure, lucid mind that alights upon nothing whatsoever. "

  ......

  "Therefore bodhisattvas should leave behind all phenomenal distinctions and awaken the thought of enlightenment by not allowing the mind to depend upon notions evoked by the sensible world.

  The mind should be kept independent of any thoughts that arise within it, or it has no sure haven. "

  http://www.selfdiscoveryportal.com/cmDiamondSutra.htm

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  Awesomely precise!

  应无所ä½� is 空，而生其心 is 有, 空有一å�Œå�‘西方å�–摩河般若波罗蜜多心ç»�

   

• Pegembara

  12 Jul 12, 15:54

  When we’re thinking, planning, dreading, anticipating, hoping, expecting something in the future, this is all taking place in the here and now, isn’t it? These are mental states we’re creating in the present. What is the future? What is the past? There’s only now, this present moment. 

  
  

  So when you explore memory, just observe that memories come and go; and when they’re gone consciousness is what remains. Consciousness is now. This the path, here and now.

  
  

  It’s so easy to be planning the future or remembering the past especially when nothing really important is happening right now: “I’m going to be teaching a meditation retreat in the future,” or “My trip to Bhutan was a really special visit to an exotic country in the Himalayas.” But so much of life is not special; it’s like this. And even going to marvelous places in the Himalayas is what it is—trees, sky, consciousness; it’s not all that different. It’s just the hype we give it. I also hear people suffering a lot about things they’ve done or things they shouldn’t have done—mistakes, crimes, terrible things they said in the past. They can become obsessed because once they start remembering the mistakes of the past it creates a whole mood. All the guilty moments of the past can come flooding back in and destroy one’s life in the present. Many people end up stuck in a very miserable hell realm that they’ve created for themselves. 
  
  But this is all happening in the present, which is why this present moment is the door to liberation. It’s the gate to the Deathless. Awakening to this is not suppressing, denying, dismissing, defending, justifying, or blaming; it is what it is, attending to a memory. “This is a memory” is an honest statement. It’s not a dismissal of the thought, but it’s no longer regarding it with such personal attachment. Memories, when seen clearly, have no essence. They dissolve into thin air.
  

  
  

  Ajahn Sumedho: Attending to the Here & Now

  http://www.dhammatalks.net/Books3/Ajahn_Sumedho_Attending_to_the_Here_and_Now.htm

  
  

  
  

   

  “Bhikkhus, knowing and seeing in this way, would you run back to the past thus: ‘Were we in the past? Were we not in the past? What were we in the past? How were we in the past? Having been what, what did we become in the past?'?” - “No venerable sir.” - “Knowing and seeing in this way, would you run forward to the future thus: ‘Shall we be in the future? Shall we not be in the future? What shall we be in the future? How shall we be in the future? Having been what, what shall become in the future?'?” - “No, venerable sir.” - “Knowing and seeing in this way, would you now be inwardly perplexed about the present thus: ‘Am I? Am I not? What am I? How am I? Where has this being come from? Where will it go?'?” -“No, venerable sir."

  
  

  Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta MN38