静思语 Readings For Silent Reflection

• Fcukpap

  28 Feb 12, 23:13

  Originally posted by Dawnfirstlight:

  

  

• Fcukpap

  28 Feb 12, 23:28

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  29 Feb 12, 08:18

  Originally posted by Fcukpap:

  "When bombs begin to fall on people, you cannot stay in the meditation hall all of the time. Meditation is about the awareness of what is going on-not only in your body and in your feelings, but all around you."

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  

  Yes. Very true. Thanks for reminding.

• Dawnfirstlight

  29 Feb 12, 19:44

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• Fcukpap

  29 Feb 12, 21:36

  Call Me by My True Names

  Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
  because even today I still arrive.

  Look deeply: I arrive in every second
  to be a bud on a spring branch,
  to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
  learning to sing in my new nest,
  to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
  to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

  I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
  in order to fear and to hope.
  The rhythm of my heart is the birth and
  death of all that are alive.

  I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,
  and I am the bird which, when spring comes, arrives in time
  to eat the mayfly.

  I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond,
  and I am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence,
  feeds itself on the frog.

  I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
  my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
  and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to
  Uganda.

  I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,
  who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea
  pirate,
  and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and
  loving.

  I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my
  hands,
  and I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to, my
  people,
  dying slowly in a forced labor camp.

  My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all
  walks of life.
  My pain if like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.

  Please call me by my true names,
  so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
  so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

  Please call me by my true names,
  so I can wake up,
  and so the door of my heart can be left open,
  the door of compassion.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  

• Fcukpap

  29 Feb 12, 22:31

  Truth cannot simply be laid on a bed of roses and live in silent ignorance...it has to, at least once in a long while, be awakened and brought down to face the barrels of the guns of human powers, the threats of separation, the inheritance of loss, and to touch the hearts of the dispossessed and their suppressed histories  

  Fcukpap

  

  

• 2009novice

  29 Feb 12, 22:35

  thank you Dawn and Fcukpap :)

• Dawnfirstlight

  1 Mar 12, 22:44

   

  世間一切隨緣隨境....凡事莫強求�
  當你懂得生活的樂趣，就能享�生命帶來的喜悅。

• Dawnfirstlight

  1 Mar 12, 22:45

  Originally posted by 2009novice:

  thank you Dawn and Fcukpap :)

  Thanks Novice.

• Dawnfirstlight

  1 Mar 12, 22:51

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• Fcukpap

  1 Mar 12, 23:35

  Do not think the knowledge you presently possess is changeless, absolute truth. Avoid being narrow minded and bound to present views. Learn and practice nonattachment from views in order to be open to receive others' viewpoints. Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge. Be ready to learn throughout your entire life and to observe reality in yourself and in the world at all times.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

   

• Dawnfirstlight

  2 Mar 12, 19:44

  Always craving,
  always poor,
  even if always rich.
  
  Always content,
  always rich,
  even if always poor.

   

• Dawnfirstlight

  2 Mar 12, 19:48

  Life is uncertain;
  death is certain.
  Rebirth is certain;
  where to is uncertain.
  

  

• Fcukpap

  2 Mar 12, 23:36

  this is good!
• Fcukpap

  2 Mar 12, 23:42

  Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. Buddhist systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth. Thich Nhat Hanh
• 2009novice

  3 Mar 12, 00:17

  Originally posted by Fcukpap:

  Do not think the knowledge you presently possess is changeless, absolute truth. Avoid being narrow minded and bound to present views. Learn and practice nonattachment from views in order to be open to receive others' viewpoints. Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge. Be ready to learn throughout your entire life and to observe reality in yourself and in the world at all times.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

   

  
  oh lol... my eyes haha

  it's as if the red thing is spinning

• Fcukpap

  3 Mar 12, 00:36

  2009novice, thanks for all the support!
• Dawnfirstlight

  3 Mar 12, 20:30

  Originally posted by Fcukpap:

  2009novice, thanks for all the support!

  Thanks Fcukpap for your contributions.

• Dawnfirstlight

  3 Mar 12, 20:31

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• Fcukpap

  3 Mar 12, 20:53

  Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sound. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. Thich Nhat Hanh The epitome of truth lies not in its silent reflection, but face to face engagement with the other side of reality on the ground. Truth is continuously peeled from its layers of illusion into new discoveries of life. Fcukpap
• Dawnfirstlight

  3 Mar 12, 20:56

  

• Dawnfirstlight

  3 Mar 12, 21:00

  

• Fcukpap

  3 Mar 12, 21:02

  i m here
• Dawnfirstlight

  3 Mar 12, 21:09

  Originally posted by Fcukpap:

  i m here

  I'm glad that you are here, at least I'm not alone here.

• Fcukpap

  3 Mar 12, 21:14

  dun worry u will never be alone