é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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Victory begets enmity; the defeated dwell in pain. Happily the peaceful live, discarding both victory and defeat.
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"Grasping at things can only yield one of two results:
Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first."
- Goenka -
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To see things as they are,
we need to see them
not in the ways we are.
– Stonepeace
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一切诸佛刹，
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众生业行异，
所����。
– 贤首è�©è�¨ï¼ˆå�Žä¸¥ç»�）
All Buddha Lands
are equally and universally magnificent and pure.
As sentient beings’ karmic actions differ,
that seen by each is not the same.
– Virtue Foremost Bodhisattva (Flower Adornment SÅ«tra)
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伎��会，
当愿众生，
以法自娱，
了伎�实。
– 文殊è�©è�¨
(�严�: 净行�11: 第5�)
With music [and dance] at gatherings,
[reflect that] ‘May sentient beings,
with [the] Dharma personally enjoy,*
realising [that other] skills [and talents] are not real.’**
– Manjusri Bodhisattva
(Avatamsaka Sutra: Chapter 11 On Pure Practices: Verse 5)
* As it is the Dharma that offers true lasting bliss.
** As worldly entertainment only offers fleeting and thus unsubstantial joy. -
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