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Post by dancingwind on Oct 22, 2005 4:41:34 GMT
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Oct 23, 2005 6:20:02 GMT
Seeing your body as no better than an earthen pot, make war on Mara with the sword of wisdom, and setting up your mind as a fortress, defend what you have won, remaining free from attachment.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Oct 24, 2005 5:50:47 GMT
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Oct 25, 2005 7:35:10 GMT
Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Oct 26, 2005 5:11:30 GMT
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Oct 27, 2005 6:25:08 GMT
Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine -- the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Oct 28, 2005 5:58:45 GMT
Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Oct 30, 2005 5:59:28 GMT
"A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise -- that is what one really calls a fool.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Nov 1, 2005 11:53:15 GMT
"A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Nov 2, 2005 6:59:31 GMT
"Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Nov 3, 2005 12:28:15 GMT
Actually, emptiness of mind is not even a state of mind, but the original essence of mind which Buddha and the Sixth Patriarch experienced. "Essence of mind," "original mind," "original face," "Buddha nature," "emptiness"--all these words mean the absolute calmness of our mind.
-Shunryu Suzuki, "Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind"
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Post by dancingwind on Nov 3, 2005 17:31:26 GMT
Prayer for Liberation for All Beings
I beseech the wisdom of all enlightened beings, past and future. May the Four Immeasurable Minds (love, compassion, joy, and equanimity) grow in the hearts and minds of all beings. May peace and wisdom visit the home of our hearts, and may we know the true, clear light of liberation. OM MANI PADME HUM
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Post by dancingwind on Nov 4, 2005 8:21:12 GMT
If you wish to understand yourself, you must succeed in doing so in the midst of all kinds of confusions and upsets. Don't make the mistake of sitting dead in the cold ashes of a withered tree.
-Emyo
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Post by dancingwind on Nov 5, 2005 8:02:25 GMT
"Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape.
Buddha
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Post by dancingwind on Nov 5, 2005 8:23:18 GMT
If a person does evil, he shouldn't do it again & again, shouldn't develop a penchant for it. To accumulate evil brings pain.
If a person makes merit, he should do it again & again, should develop a penchant for it. To accumulate merit brings ease.
-Dhammapada, 9, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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