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Post by dancingwind on Sept 4, 2005 5:36:06 GMT
Buddhist wisdom about happiness
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 5, 2005 6:52:24 GMT
Buddhist wisdom about the nature of creating things
A person creates what they defend against.
Buddha
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Post by chynacariba on Sept 5, 2005 17:55:55 GMT
If you keep posting buddhist things~this makes me VERY happy hehe *hugs*
cc xx
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 5, 2005 18:06:38 GMT
If you keep posting buddhist things~this makes me VERY happy hehe *hugs*
cc xx Yeah, honey, I know that it would make you happy. ;D ;D ;D ;D love, Brigitte
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 5, 2005 19:48:47 GMT
May I be a protector to those without protection, A leader for those who journey, And a boat, a bridge, a passage For those desiring the further shore.
May the pain of every living creature Be completely cleared away. May I be the doctor and the medicine And may I be the nurse For all sick beings in the world Until everyone is healed.
Just like space And the great elements such as earth, May I always support the life Of all the boundless creatures.
And until they pass away from pain May I also be the source of life For all the realms of varied beings That reach unto the ends of space.
Guide to the Bodhisattva's way of life - Shantideva
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 6, 2005 6:16:57 GMT
Buddhist wisdom about belief
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 16, 2005 6:39:24 GMT
Buddhist Wisdom about unity
The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.
Avatamasaka Sutra
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 16, 2005 16:58:13 GMT
The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
Atisha
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 17, 2005 6:38:59 GMT
Buddhist Wisdom about avoiding ordinary things
If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of
delusion.
Lin-Chi
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 18, 2005 5:07:11 GMT
Buddhist Wisdom about the nature of things
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 20, 2005 6:33:28 GMT
Buddhist Wisdom about detachment from thoughts
Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but
the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So
don't worry about clear mind: it is always there. When thinking comes, behind it is clear
mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes
and goes, You must not be attached to the coming or the going.
Zen Master Seung Sahn
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 21, 2005 6:48:44 GMT
Buddhist Wisdom about craving
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision. -Hsi-Tang
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 22, 2005 6:05:07 GMT
Buddhist Wisdom about reconciliation
Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.
-Thich Nhat Hahn
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 23, 2005 7:07:07 GMT
Buddhist Wisdom about being ourselves
Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere: Let us take long walks in the open air... Let us bathe in the rivers and lakes... Let us indulge in games... Let us be more simple: simple and true in our minds above all. Let us be ourselves.
Robert Linssen
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Post by dancingwind on Sept 24, 2005 3:04:35 GMT
Buddhist Wisdom about seeking
If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.
Fo-Yan
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