Daily Buddhist Verses
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This morning, I received one of those rude mails. The person wrote me this one-line mail:
"budda is dead you moron move on with your life"
And I replied:
You are alive, friend, move on with Buddha's death.
- Tan Chade Meng -
I'd like to
Offer something
To help you
But in the Zen School
We don't have a single thing!
-- Zen Master Ikkyu -
Lama Surya Das: The Bodhisattva path is the highest spiritual ideal that I've ever encountered. It's predicated on the recognition that we're all one. And the common ground of all beings is that we all want to be happy and well, and have our loved ones be protected and safe and happy and not harmed. We're all joined in that way, therefore we dedicate ourselves to the greater welfare of all, not just for our own selfish, temporary welfare in this short life. When we take the Bodhisattva vow, we make ourselves a spiritual servant, like a saintly or peaceful warrior working for peace, enlightenment and the betterment of all beings. And not just human beings, but all beings of all kinds throughout all lifetimes, in all possible worlds and universes. It's really a saintly, cosmic aspiration of service and dedication to the highest good for all (as opposed to the temporary gratification or the materialism of this life). That's really the basics of Tibetan Buddhism, the Mahayana Buddhism, the Great Vehicle or Great Boat. The vehicle intent on universal liberation, not just individual relief or individual enlightenment. It's realizing that as long as any being is suffering or is imprisoned, I too am not completely free. So we pray, "May we all together complete the spiritual path. We vow not to go to Nirvana or complete our spiritual work until all beings get there." So as long as there is any suffering in the world, there is still spiritual work to do. That's the Bodhisattva vow and the Bodhisattva aspiration and that's the heart of the Mahayana Buddhism. Buddhism really has three schools and Mahayana is probably the biggest.
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I read frm a 4d shop...
When u r angry, u do nt have enuf xiu yang
when u r jealous, u do nt have enuf xiu yang
when u dun like somebody, u do nt have enuf xiu yang -
Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness.
If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness.
Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars and planets,
The great earth, mountains and rivers,
All trees and grasses,
Bad people and good people,
Bad things and good things,
Heaven and hell;
They are all in the midst of emptiness.
- Hui-neng (638-713) -
"For as long as you direct your search to the forms around you,
you will not attain your goal even after aeon upon aeon;
whereas, by contemplating your inner awareness,
you can achieve Buddhahood in a single flash. . ."
~Dhyana Paramita Sutra -
No fanaticism
Of Buddhism alone can it be affirmed it is free from all fanaticism. Its aim being to produce in every man a thorough internal transforming by self-conquest, how can it have recourse to might or money or even persuasion for effecting conversion? The Buddha has only shown the way to salvation, and it is left to each individual to decide for himself if he would follow it.
- Prof. Lakshmi Narasu, "The Essence of Buddhism" -
"Besides, we all talk of 'me.' How do you know what is this 'me' that we speak of? You dream you are a bird, and soar to heaven, or dream you are a fish, and dive into the ocean's depths. And you cannot tell whether the man now speaking is awake or in a dream. "A man feels a pleasurable sensation before he smiles, and smiles before he thinks how he ought to smile. Resign yourself to the sequence of things, forgetting the changes of life, and you shall enter into the pure, the divine, the One."
- Chuang Tzu (Lao Tzu's successor) -
Buddhism is a religion of the people, by the people, for the people. - Ajahn Brahmavamso
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"The ignorant man is not the unlearned, but he who does not know himself, and the learned man is stupid when he relies on books, on knowledge, and on authority to give him understanding. Understanding comes only through self-knowledge, which is awareness of one's total psychological process."
- J. Krishnamurti -
Dhammapada
Verse 364: The bhikkhu who abides in the Dhamma, who delights in the Dhamma, who meditates on the Dhamma, and is ever mindful of the Dhamma, does not fall away from the Dhamma of the virtuous.
See: Best Way to Respect the Buddha is to practise the Dhamma -
One day, Buddha questioned a number of his students,
"How long can a human life be certain?"
One of the students answered, "For a few days."
Buddha replied, "No, you have not yet understood life."
Buddha then repeated,
"How long can a human life be certain?"
Another student answered, "For a meal."
Again, Buddha replied, "No, you have not understood life either."
Buddha repeated one third time,
"How long can a human life be certain?"
A third student answered, "Only for a breath."
Buddha praised, "Great! You've started to understand life." -
"Whose evil deed is obscured by good,
he illumines this world like the
moon freed from a cloud."
- Buddha in regards to Angulimala -
DO not think your knowledge as vast,
FOr man is indeed weak,
Do not show off in Buddha's name,
FOr He cultivated with much harship in solitary,
One should be humble,
One should bear much pain,
And forget what is pain. -
Cultivation cannot be seeked,
Neither does it come,
Existing is cultivating,
Right praised and evil punished,
Such is the tranquil Way. -
Hi, may I ask are you from Falungong?Originally posted by 022615:Cultivation cannot be seeked,
Neither does it come,
Existing is cultivating,
Right praised and evil punished,
Such is the tranquil Way. -
Is there difference between a Buddha and a man?
Thus is there difference if you and I are or different beliefs?
Are sinners and saints affected by karma?
Dosen't everyone born and ages,
No matter what base you are of? -
If I am a Buddhist and someone ask me if I am a disciple of Buddha,
I will be terribly ashamed of myself,
If I am a Christian and someone ask me if I am a disciple of Christ,
I will be terrbly ashamed of myself,
How can one represent one beliefs?
No man is worthy to be associated with gods!
I am a lowly being, not a disciple,
I am a beggar, not a disciple,
I am a sinner, not a disciple,
I am forever a novice, not worthy of Buddha;s second hand,
There's no such thing as a god with human greed,
If there is he isn't pure. -
022615, pls continue discussion on the other topic opened by yourself.
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Weekday is a time to learn,
Weekend is a time to share,
Leisure period is a time to meditate,
Living is a chance to cultivate. -
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"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - A.Einstein
(8th A.E post
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The Knower Of Reality Has Said
That Even If Recitation And Physical Hardships
Are Practised For Long Period Of Time
They Will Be Meaningless If The Mind Is Distracted
Shantideva -
Step away from the others, and I shall tell you the mysteries of the kingdom. It is a great and boundless realm which no eye of an angel has seen and no thought of the heart has ever comprehended and it was never called by name.
- Jesus Christ, Gospel of Judas