Thursday, August 8, 2013
THE LITTLE BOOK OF BUDDHIST WISDOM---SHARADA RAO
How can there be laughter and joy when the
world is always burning?
Enveloped in darkness,
why do you not seek the light?
Dhammapada, verse 146
The stones which were thrown at me-
When I picked it up,
one of them was a jewel.
Japanes poem
A team of the fastest horses cannot over-
take a word once as left the lips.
Old Chinese saying.
The perfect way is difficult
only for those who pick and choose...
MASTER SENG-T'SAN
Third patrirch of Chinese ch'an/Zen,d.606
For those with preferences,
suffering is inevitable.
AJAHN BRAHMAMUNI
thai monk
The Great WAy is serene and all-embracing,
in it nothing is easy, nothing is difficult;
partial views-douubtful and insecure-
at times run riot and are prone to cling.
MASTER SENG-T'SAN
Third patriarch of
ch'an/Zen,d.606
Eighty percent is perfect!
Zen saying
The past should not be followed after,
the future not desired.
What is past is got rid of
and the future has not come.
But whoever has vision now here,
now there,of a present thing,
knowing that it is immovable,unshakeable,
Let him cultivate it.
Swelter at the task this very day.
Who knows whether he will die tomarrow?
There is no bargaining with
the great hosts of Death.
BUDDHA
Try not to live as if time were a reality
which can steal away your life.
Life is short,
yet the moment transcends eternity.
Zen Graffiti
Whatever is past is past, so do not sit
in judgement upon it.Whatever is in the future
is not here yet, so do not direct your
hopes and longings towards it.
HUI HAI
Chinese ch'an/zen Master,720-814
Even though the body may yeild to death,
the mind in a state of nirvana
does not die.
BUDDHADASA BHIKKHU
Thai meditation monk
That which ye sow ye reap.
See yonder fields!
The sesamum was sesamum
the corn was corn.
The Silence and the Darkness knew!
So is a man's fate born.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD
The Light of Asia.
The way is perfect and complete
like boundless space;
nothings is lacking, nothing redundant,
but,because the mind continues
to make distinctions,
its suchness is obscured.
MASTER SENG-T' SAN
third patriarch of
Chinese Ch'an/zen,d.606
That which comes in through the
front door is not the family treasure,
Zen saying
A foolish passing thought
makes one an ordinary man,
while an enlightened second thought
makes one a buddha.
MASTER HUI NENG
sixth patriarch og
chinese ,Ch'an/zen,638-713
As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind,
even so are the wise unshaken
by blame or praise.
Dhamapada,verse 81
Even as the light of a lamp can
break up darkness
which has been there for a thousand years,
so a spark of wisdom can do away with ignorance
which has lasted for ages.
sixth patrich of Chinese Ch'an/Zen,638-713
Buddha, who wept with all my brothers'tears'
whose heart was broken by a whole world's woe,
laugh and glad, reclining,this will then be tfor there is liberty!
Ho!Ye who suffer!Know
Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels,
none other holds you that ye live and die,
and whirl upon the wheel,
and hug and kiss its spokes of agony....
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD
The light of asia
If one can, during the morning and evening,
keep the heart completely without
differentiation whether walking, standing,
sitting, or reclining,this will then be the
infestation of a buddha.
It is not necessary to use the mind or
to employ one's strength,or to produce or
construct anything.One should not trouble
oneself the least chatter or contemplation.
Therefore. we say to achive buddhahood is
the simplest of things!
MASTER HSU YUN
Chinese Ch'an
Where one has awoken
to the sameness of everything'
there is the great enlightenment.
VAIROCANA
a symbolic buddha,Mahayana school
Where one has awoken
to the sameness of everything, of the buddhas.
there is the great enlightenment.
VAIROCANA
asymbolic buddha,Mahayana school
Refrain from all evil,
do what is good,
cleanse your own thoughts.
This is the advice of the buddhas.
Dhamapada, verse 183
Mind, Buddha and living beings do not
differ from one another.
HUI HAI
Chinese Ch/en Master,720-814
Whosoever says that
the Tathagata*goes or
comes,stands,sits or lies
down,he does not under-
stand the meaning of my teaching.
And why?Tathagata's is called one who has not
gone anywhere,nor come from anywhere.
Therefore is he called 'the Tathagata'the Archat,
the fully Enlightened One.'
*The Buddha referred to himself as the Tathagata,a word meaning
'thus come,' 'the one who neither comes nor goes.'
It is through your own bodies
that reality is perceived in the same manner.
VIMALAKIRTI
Laymana at the time of the Buddha
Mahayana school
Is material shapes permanent
or impermanent?
Impermanent,revered sir,
But is what is impermanent painful or pleasant?
Painful, reversed sir.
And is it impermanent,suffering,
liable to change,as
This is mine,this am I this is myself?
No reversed sir.
Buddha
speaking to his monks
Whatever is material shapes,
past,future,present,subjective or objective,
gross or subtle,mean or excellent,
Whether it is far or near-all material shape
should be seen by perfect intuitive wisdom as it
really is: This is not mine,this amInot,
this is not my self.'
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