' Our Greatest Enemy '...
Each step may seem to take forever,, but no matter how uninspired you feel,, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently... This is how we can use our greatest enemy,, habit, against itself.
......................Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
' Attaining Liberation '...
Retreating from the world
will not liberate you..
Happiness is not found in
a secluded forest hut or isolated cave..
Enlightenment comes when you
connect to the world..
Only when you truly connect with everyone
and everything else do you become Enlightened..
Only by going deeply and fully into the world
do you attain liberation.
............... Guo Jun
' Your Path '...
Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go on its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.
.................... Sheng-yen
' The Wise Will Understand '...
When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes.. When you must walk, then walk.. When you must sit, then sit.. Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life, unconcerned in seeking for Buddhahood... When you're tired, lie down.. The fool will laugh at you,, but the wise man will understand.
..................... Linji Yixuan
' One's Self-nature '...
Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing and eternal seeing
..................... Shenhui
' Inner Peace '...
To meditate means to realize inwardly the imperturbability of the Essence of Mind...
The reason why we are perturbed is because we allow ourselves to be carried away by the circumstances we are in.. Those who are able to keep their mind unperturbed, irrespective of circumstances, have attained Inner Peace.
........................... Huineng
' See Your Nature '...
Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?
............................... Bodhidharma
' The Unaware '...
Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you.. It is because of themselves.
...................... Miguel Angel Ruiz
' The Character of Love '...
Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love
...................... Bhagat Singh
' Watching the Mind '...
Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words... Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions... Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits... Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values... Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
.............................. Mahatma Gandhi
' Turning a life Around '...
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
............................... Leo Buscaglia
' The Ego Death '...
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
................. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
' The Right Question '...
The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
.................. Plato
' Humility Alone '...
In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
....................... Nicholas of Cusa
' Seek the Truth '...
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
......................... Nicolaus Copernicus
' Life is Simple '...
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.. Most fails.. Some works..
You do more of what works.
................. Leonardo da Vinci
' Necessary to Love '...
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
......................... Claude Monet
' The Purpose of Education '...
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
....................... Malcolm Forbes
' Source is All '...
When men search for God with their bodily eyes they find Him nowhere, for He is invisible. But for those who ponder in the Spirit He is present everywhere. He is in all, yet beyond all.
......................... Symeon the New Theologian
' An Air of Novelty '...
When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
..........Clement of Alexandria
' Bargaining with Ego '...
Those who give, hoping to be rewarded with honor, are not giving,, they are bargaining.
...................... Philo
' Yeshua Ben Yosef '...
At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and [he] was known to be virtuous.. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples.. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die.. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship.
.................. Josephus (Historian of Rome )
' Thoughts of Evil '...
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
....................... Claudius
' Finding Strength '...
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
.................. Marcus Aurelius
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