Daily Buddhist Verses
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all form are created from emptiness.
like onion skin is form, but peel until the end is emptiness.
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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
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You can dance on books all day,
but don't neglect going out to play;
you can see but you cannot say,
rainbows in space simply fade away.
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watch tv also can be enlightening - MCK
the images 所�are moving on the screen - impermanence.
but the screen/tv 能� itself is not moving - permanent.
yet the tv and images must be Together as one. 能所是一.
æœ‰æ— æ˜¯ä¸€ä¸�是二,心相是一ä¸�是二。
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Originally posted by sinweiy:
watch tv also can be enlightening - MCK
the images 所�are moving on the screen - impermanence.
but the screen/tv 能� itself is not moving - permanent.
yet the tv and images must be Together as one. 能所是一.
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I remembered this. -
“To understand everything is to forgive everything”Buddha quote
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�入世， 如何处世。
if u don't experience samsara/suffering, how u know to escape samsara.
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Quote from Ajahn Chah:
“Don’t be an arahant, don’t be a bodhisattva, don’t be anything at all—if you are anything at all, you will suffer.”
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"He who realizes that there is no bondage and no liberation will have no likes or dislikes."
"Emptiness is not a theory, but a ladder that reaches out into the infinite. "
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å¦ä½›é�“者，å¦è‡ªå·±ä¹Ÿï¼›å¦è‡ªå·±è€…，忘自己也；忘自己者，万法所è¯�也；万法所è¯�者，乃使自己身心å�Šä»–己身心脱è�½ä¹Ÿã€‚
~ �元禅师（Dogen）
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suffering is real, happiness is false. as more happiness can turn into suffering while more suffering cannot turn into happiness
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To find a Buddha, you have to see your nature." Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don’t see your nature, invoking Buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking Buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory; keeping precepts results in a good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no buddha. If you don’t understand by yourself, you’ll have to find a teacher to get to the bottom of life and death. But unless he sees his nature, such a person isn’t a tea6er. Even if he can recite the Twelvefold Canon he can’t escape the Wheel of Birth and Death. He suffers in the three realms without hope of release. Long ago, the monk Good Star was able to recite the entire Canon. But he didn’t escape the Wheel, because he didn’t see his nature. If this was the case with Good Star, then people nowadays who recite a few sutras or shastras and think it’s the Dharma are fools. Unless you see your mind, reciting so much prose is useless.
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature. Your nature is the Buddha. And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares. If you don’t see your nature and run around all day looking somewhere else, you’ll never find a buddha. The truth is there’s nothing to find. But to reach such an understanding you need a teacher and you need to struggle to make yourself understand. Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
There’s no advantage in deceiving yourself. Even if you have mountains of jewels and as many servants as there are grains of sand along the Ganges, you see them when your eyes are open. But what about when your eyes are shut? You should realize then that everything you see is like a dream or illusion.
If you don’t find a teacher soon, you’ll live this life in vain. It’s true, you have the buddha-nature. But the help of a teacher you’ll never know it. Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help. If, though, by the conjunction of conditions, someone understands what the Buddha meant, that person doesn’t need a teacher. Such a person has a natural awareness superior to anything taught. But unless you’re so blessed, study hard, and by means of instruction you’ll understand.~ 1st Ch'an Patriarch Bodhidharma
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good one:
Buddha: "I teach only two things: suffering and the end of suffering."
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"The basis, one’s vidyÄ�, is like a crystal ball;
its emptiness is the nature of the dharmak�ya;
its self-revealing clarity is the sambhogak�ya;
and the door of unceasing arising is the nirmanak�ya.~ Lama Shabkar
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"Since the Jina proclaims that nirvana alone is true,
what wise person would not reject the rest as false?"~ Nagarjuna
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Verse 5. Hatred is Overcome Only by Non-hatred Never here by enmity are those with enmity allayed, they are allayed by amity, this is the timeless Truth. Dhammapada
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Verse 204: Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss. Dhammapada Verse 204
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha
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As long as space remains,
As long as sentient beings remain,
May I too remain,
And dispel the miseries of the world - Shantideva
Introducing directly the face of rigpa in itself.
Decide upon one thing, and one thing only.
Confidence directly in the liberation of rising thoughts - Garab Dorje -
Treasure what you have in this moment. Do not be attached to what you have in this moment. Because everything changes, from moment to moment...
(from an anonymous wise man)
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When you speak to others, you might speak at the right time or at the wrong time, according to fact or not, gently or harshly, about the goal or not, with a mind full of love or with a mind full of hatred. In this way, you should train yourself: "Our minds will not be perverted nor will we utter evil speech, but kindly and compassionate we will live with a mind full of love, without hatred. We will live having suffused that person with a mind full of love, and beginning with him, we will live suffusing the whole world with a love that is far reaching, widespread, immeasurable, without enmity, without malevolence." This is how you should train yourself.
Majjhima Nikaya I.126
