"If you cannot find the truth
Right where you are,
Where do you expect to find it?"
Dogen
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Right Where You Are
Dogen
Friday, May 15, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Four Ways of Turning the Mind
Oh! This kind of leisure and endowment is supremely difficult to obtain.
Having obtained this body, which is easily lost,
Do not waste it meaninglessly
But rather use it to attain the ultimate liberation.
Joyous result!
The nature of all phenomena is impermanence;
Death is a certainty for all who are born.
Death can descend anytime like a drop of morning dew on a blade of grass.
Quick! It is the time to make effort for the essence of Dharma.
The fruit of one's positive karma is happiness;
Suffering is the fruit of negative karma.
The inexorable karmic causation is the mode of abiding of all dharmas.
Henceforth, practice the Dharma by distinguishing
Between what should be practiced and what should be given up.
In the three lower realms,
And even in the three higher ones,
There is not an instant of absolute happiness.
I will avoid the root cause of my samsaric existence and practice
The Excellent path of peace to Enlightenment.
Having obtained this body, which is easily lost,
Do not waste it meaninglessly
But rather use it to attain the ultimate liberation.
Joyous result!
The nature of all phenomena is impermanence;
Death is a certainty for all who are born.
Death can descend anytime like a drop of morning dew on a blade of grass.
Quick! It is the time to make effort for the essence of Dharma.
The fruit of one's positive karma is happiness;
Suffering is the fruit of negative karma.
The inexorable karmic causation is the mode of abiding of all dharmas.
Henceforth, practice the Dharma by distinguishing
Between what should be practiced and what should be given up.
In the three lower realms,
And even in the three higher ones,
There is not an instant of absolute happiness.
I will avoid the root cause of my samsaric existence and practice
The Excellent path of peace to Enlightenment.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Be happy for no reason
The mind is made up of opposing energies that spark and create the fire of life. When we're standing in the light, then we have a shadow. If we don't have a shadow, then we're standing in darkness. The shadow is the part of us that we're ashamed of, that we don't want people to know about.
When you exhibit so-called positive and negative traits, you are not flawed; you are complete.
When you exhibit so-called positive and negative traits, you are not flawed; you are complete.
Deepak Chopra
Power Freedom and Grace
Power Freedom and Grace
A book well worth buying
Sunday, March 22, 2009
What is Time?
All thoughts, concepts, and emotions are what is understood as Time. From a Taoist and Buddhist perspective, complete cessation through meditation is the portal to attaining powers of transcendence such as immortality and movement.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Self-Cherishing
"The cause of happiness is love. The cause of suffering is self-cherishing."
Garchen Rinpoche
Garchen Rinpoche
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