é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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We may able to deceive others, but there is no way to deceive Karma.
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When causes and conditions are right， everything is possible.
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“Bring your mind home. And release. And relax.”
To bring your mind home means to bring the mind into the state of Calm Abiding through the practice of mindfulness. In its deepest sense, to bring your mind home is to turn your mind inward and rest in the nature of mind. This itself is the highest meditation.
To release means to release the mind from its prison of grasping, since you recognize that all pain and fear and distress arise from the craving of the grasping mind. On a deeper level, the realization and confidence that arise from your growing understanding of the nature of mind inspire the profound and natural generosity that enables you to release all grasping from your heart, letting it free itself to melt away in the inspiration of meditation.
To relax means to be spacious and to relax the mind of its tensions. More deeply, you relax into the true nature of your mind, the state of Rigpa. It is like pouring a handful of sand onto a hot surface, and each grain settles of its own accord. This is how you relax into your true nature, letting all thoughts and emotions naturally subside and dissolve into the state of the nature of mind.
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Wealthy people suffer, and so do the poor, the idle, and the busy. Who in the world do not suffer? The reason for suffering is lack of endurance. Those who endure less would suffer more.
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喜爱å“�/Piyavagga — Affection/Dear Ones (Dhp 209-220)
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Verse 211. Not Bound By Ties Of Defilements
Others then do not make dear
for hard’s the parting from them.
For whom there is no dear, undear
in them no bonds are found.
Explanation: Therefore, one must not have endearments; because separation is painful. For those who are free of bonds there are no endearments or non-endearments. -
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If bandits enough to fill the three thousand great thousand world system infest a dangerous road on which a merchant chief in charge of costly jewels is leading a group of merchants, but among the merchants there is even a single person who says, 'Good men, do not be afraid! You should all single-mindedly recite the name of Guan Shi Yin Bodhisattva. This Bodhisattva bestows fearlessness upon living beings. If you recite her name, you shall surely be saved from these robbers,' and if upon hearing that, the merchants all cry out together, 'Namo Guan Shi Yin Pusa,' then they will immediately be saved because they recited her name.
---Lotus Sutra Chapter 25 (Universal Door of Guan Yin Bodhisattva)
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Further, if a person who is about to be harmed calls out the name of Guan Shi Yin Bodhisattva, the knives and staves of the attackers will break into pieces and he will be saved.
---Lotus Sutra Chapter 25 (Universal Door of Guan Yin Bodhisattva)
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If a person who upholds the name of Guan Shi Yin Bodhisattva enters a great fire, the fire will not burn him, all because of this Bodhisattva's awesome spiritual power.
---Lotus Sutra Chapter 25 (Universal Door of Guan Yin Bodhisattva)
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