Sunday, 13 October 2013
Posted by AUTUMN&WINTER on 15-07-2013, 7:59 AM :
If you understand the intimate
relationship between actions and
their consequences for yourself and
others, you will automatically be
careful and conscientious. This is
what it means to have self-
awareness.
~Lama Yeshe~
善恶只在一念之间
Good & Evil are all within one thought.
relationship between actions and
their consequences for yourself and
others, you will automatically be
careful and conscientious. This is
what it means to have self-
awareness.
~Lama Yeshe~
善恶只在一念之间
Good & Evil are all within one thought.
Posted by drdoof on 14-07-2013, 3:09 PM :
Learn to turn the light around, reflect upon yourself and smooth your mind-pond still. Everything outside of ourselves are equal in themselves; the garbage does not feel it is unclean, and the flower does not know it is fragrant, there is no such thing as discrimination. We must let our mind be at peace without attachments, this is true happiness.
~ Venerable Master Chin Kung
~ Venerable Master Chin Kung
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 10:48 AM :
The mind of people of the Way is straight as a bowstring. Simply because they are not burdened by ideas of others and themselves, of right and wrong, of sacred and profane, of better and worse, or by deception, falsehood, flattery, or deviousness, they spontaneously gain access to the substance of mind that dwells on nothing.
Fundamentally this is not another, not oneself, not ordinary, not holy, not mind, not Buddha, not a thing, not Zen, not Tao, not a mystery, not a marvel.
It is only because of a moment of subjectivity in discrimination, grasping and rejecting, that so many horns are suddenly produced on your head and you are turned about by those myriad objects all the time, unable to be free and independent.
~ Zen Master Yuansou
Fundamentally this is not another, not oneself, not ordinary, not holy, not mind, not Buddha, not a thing, not Zen, not Tao, not a mystery, not a marvel.
It is only because of a moment of subjectivity in discrimination, grasping and rejecting, that so many horns are suddenly produced on your head and you are turned about by those myriad objects all the time, unable to be free and independent.
~ Zen Master Yuansou
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 10:44 AM :
Buddhist teachings are prescriptions given according to specific ailments, to clear away the roots of your compulsive habits and clean out your emotional views, just so you can be free and clear, naked and clean, without problems.
There is no real doctrine at all for you to chew on or squat over. If you will not believe in yourself, you pick up your baggage and go around to other people's houses looking for Zen, looking for Tao, looking for mysteries, looking for marvels, looking for buddhas, looking for Zen masters, looking for teachers.
You think this is searching for the ultimate, and you make it into your religion, but this is like running blindly to the east to get somewhere that is in the west. The more you run, the further away you are, and the more you hurry the later you become. You just tire yourself, to what benefit in the end?
~ Zen Master Yuansou
There is no real doctrine at all for you to chew on or squat over. If you will not believe in yourself, you pick up your baggage and go around to other people's houses looking for Zen, looking for Tao, looking for mysteries, looking for marvels, looking for buddhas, looking for Zen masters, looking for teachers.
You think this is searching for the ultimate, and you make it into your religion, but this is like running blindly to the east to get somewhere that is in the west. The more you run, the further away you are, and the more you hurry the later you become. You just tire yourself, to what benefit in the end?
~ Zen Master Yuansou
Saturday, 5 October 2013
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 10:41 AM :
This inconceivable door of great liberation is in everyone. It has never been blocked, it has never been defective. Buddhas and Zen masters have appeared in the world and provided expedient methods, with many different devices, using illusory medicines to cure illusory illnesses, just because your faculties are unequal, your knowledge is unclear, you do not transcend what you see and hear as you see and hear it, and you are tumbled about endlessly in an ocean of misery by afflictions due to ignorance, by emotional views and habitual conceptions of others and self, right and wrong.
The various teachings and techniques of buddhas and Zen masters are only set forth so that you will individually step bck into yourself, understand your own original mind and see your own original nature, so that you reach a state of great rest, peace and happiness.
~ Zen Master Yuansou
The various teachings and techniques of buddhas and Zen masters are only set forth so that you will individually step bck into yourself, understand your own original mind and see your own original nature, so that you reach a state of great rest, peace and happiness.
~ Zen Master Yuansou
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 10:36 AM :
Those who meditate in silent stillness regard silent stillness as final, but it is not something to finalize in stillness. Those who assert mastery in the midst of busyness are satisfied with busyness, but it is not something to be satisfied with in the midst of busness. Those who learn from the scriptures consider the scriptures basic, but it is not learned from the scriptures. Those who work with teachers and colleagues regard this as a profound source, but it is not attained from working with teachers and colleagues.
It is a formless, indestructible being that has always been like a fish hidden in a spring, that drums up waves and dances by itself. When you look for it in the east, it goes west; when you look for it in the south, it goes north. It can give names to everyone, but no one can give it a name. In all places and all times it is the master of myriad forms, the teacher of myriad phenomena.
~ Zen Master Yuansou
It is a formless, indestructible being that has always been like a fish hidden in a spring, that drums up waves and dances by itself. When you look for it in the east, it goes west; when you look for it in the south, it goes north. It can give names to everyone, but no one can give it a name. In all places and all times it is the master of myriad forms, the teacher of myriad phenomena.
~ Zen Master Yuansou
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 1:27 AM :
If mature people want to cut off the road of birth and death, they should relinquish what they have been holding dear, so that their senses become clean and naked. One day they will gain insight, and the road of birth and death is sure to end.
If you don't practice this in reality, but desire a lot of intellectual knowledge, thinking this is the wonder of self-realization, your chills and fever will be increased by the wind of intellectual knowledge; your nose will always be stuffy and your head will always be foggy.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
If you don't practice this in reality, but desire a lot of intellectual knowledge, thinking this is the wonder of self-realization, your chills and fever will be increased by the wind of intellectual knowledge; your nose will always be stuffy and your head will always be foggy.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 1:25 AM :
There are 2 kinds of Zen students who won't let go. 1 kind consists of those who did not meet real teachers at the outset of their quest, plunged into the fires of false teachers, and having been poisoned by their venom, they think their Zen study is done.
Another kind consists of those who join Zen groups and call themselves Zen students but really lack the correct basis. They just usurp what they hear, eager to be known for it, trying to prove themselves, only saying that Zen is just this.
These 2 kinds of people are fatally ill, unless they recognize their error someday and let go of it sometime.
But what are people in these conditions to let go of, after all? Just let go of the burden of "others" and "self", of ideas of gain and loss, right and wrong, Buddha and Buddhism, mystery and marvel.
As soon as you let go this way, you feel body and mind light and easy, thoroughly pure inside and out. Then your heart is clear all the time. In a cool flash of insight, you go free.
Now you are ready for refinement. If you just keep to the insight you've attained and consider it ultimate, you are still clinging to something. Zen people free from convention are very different from this.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
Another kind consists of those who join Zen groups and call themselves Zen students but really lack the correct basis. They just usurp what they hear, eager to be known for it, trying to prove themselves, only saying that Zen is just this.
These 2 kinds of people are fatally ill, unless they recognize their error someday and let go of it sometime.
But what are people in these conditions to let go of, after all? Just let go of the burden of "others" and "self", of ideas of gain and loss, right and wrong, Buddha and Buddhism, mystery and marvel.
As soon as you let go this way, you feel body and mind light and easy, thoroughly pure inside and out. Then your heart is clear all the time. In a cool flash of insight, you go free.
Now you are ready for refinement. If you just keep to the insight you've attained and consider it ultimate, you are still clinging to something. Zen people free from convention are very different from this.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 1:17 AM :
Zen cannot be attained by lectures, discussions, and debates. Only those of great perceptive capacity can clearly understand it.
For this reason the ancient adepts did not waste a moment. Even when they weren't calling on teachers to ascertain specific truths, they were involved in real Zen practice, so they eventually attained mature serenity in a natural way. They were not wrapped up in the illusions of the world.
If you can do this, at some point you will suddenly turn the light of your mind around and see through illusions to the real self. Then you will understand where everything comes from - mundane passions and illusions, the material world, form and emptiness, light and darkness, principle and essence, mystery and marvel.
Once you understand this clearly, then you will not be caged or trapped by anything at all, mundane or transmundane.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
For this reason the ancient adepts did not waste a moment. Even when they weren't calling on teachers to ascertain specific truths, they were involved in real Zen practice, so they eventually attained mature serenity in a natural way. They were not wrapped up in the illusions of the world.
If you can do this, at some point you will suddenly turn the light of your mind around and see through illusions to the real self. Then you will understand where everything comes from - mundane passions and illusions, the material world, form and emptiness, light and darkness, principle and essence, mystery and marvel.
Once you understand this clearly, then you will not be caged or trapped by anything at all, mundane or transmundane.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 1:13 AM :
1st of all, don't establish a preconceived understanding of Zen, yet don't rationalize Zen as "not understanding" either.
It's just like learning archery: eventually you reach a point where ideas are ended and feelings forgotten, and then you suddenly hit the target.
You should also know, furthermore, that there is a subtlety breaking through the target, which is attained spontaneously.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
It's just like learning archery: eventually you reach a point where ideas are ended and feelings forgotten, and then you suddenly hit the target.
You should also know, furthermore, that there is a subtlety breaking through the target, which is attained spontaneously.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 1:13 AM :
1st of all, don't establish a preconceived understanding of Zen, yet don't rationalize Zen as "not understanding" either.
It's just like learning archery: eventually you reach a point where ideas are ended and feelings forgotten, and then you suddenly hit the target.
You should also know, furthermore, that there is a subtlety breaking through the target, which is attained spontaneously.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
It's just like learning archery: eventually you reach a point where ideas are ended and feelings forgotten, and then you suddenly hit the target.
You should also know, furthermore, that there is a subtlety breaking through the target, which is attained spontaneously.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 1:07 AM :
The mind of Zen adepts is straight as a bowstring, like a long sword against the sky cutting through confusion wherever they may be. Worldly wealth and status, hauteur and extravagance, mundane desires, and all the ups and downs of life, cannot affect them. Fame and profit, judgments of right and wrong, and all the possible states of being, cannot trap them.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
~ Zen Master Ying-An
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 1:05 AM :
Buddhas and Zen masters do not have different realizations; they all reach the point of cessation, where past, present, and future are cut off and all impulses stop, where there is not the slightest object. Enlightened awareness shines spontaneously, subtly penetrating the root source.
~ Zen Master Hongzhi
~ Zen Master Hongzhi
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 1:03 AM :
When you understand and arrive at the emptiness of all things, then you are independent of every state of mind, and transcend every situation. The original light is everywhere, and you then adapt to the potential at hand; everything you meet is Zen.
While subtly aware of all circumstances, you are empty and have no subjective stance towards them. Like the breeze in the pines, the moon in the water, there is a clear and light harmony. You have no coming and going mind, and you do not linger over appearances.
The essence is in being inwardly open and accommodating while outwardly responsive without unrest. Be like spring causing the flowers to bloom, like a mirror reflecting images, and you will naturally emerge aloof of all tumult.
~ Zen Master Hongzhi
While subtly aware of all circumstances, you are empty and have no subjective stance towards them. Like the breeze in the pines, the moon in the water, there is a clear and light harmony. You have no coming and going mind, and you do not linger over appearances.
The essence is in being inwardly open and accommodating while outwardly responsive without unrest. Be like spring causing the flowers to bloom, like a mirror reflecting images, and you will naturally emerge aloof of all tumult.
~ Zen Master Hongzhi
Posted by peoplewatcher on 14-07-2013, 1:00 AM :
The action and repose of those who have mastered Zen are like flowing clouds, without self-consciousness, like the full moon, reflected everywhere. People who have mastered Zen are not stopped by anything: though clearly in the midst of all things, still they are highly aloof; though they encounter experiences according to circumstances, they are not tainted or mixed up by them.
~ Zen Master Hongzhi
~ Zen Master Hongzhi
Posted by AUTUMN&WINTER on 13-07-2013, 7:57 PM :
If you learn a lot of Dharma but you are unable to use it on yourself, it's useless.
If you did a lot of good deeds but mix it with bad deeds, it's useless.
If you keep creating bad karma, and follow your Guru, it's useless.
~ Guru Rinpoche 《Akini Teaching》
If you did a lot of good deeds but mix it with bad deeds, it's useless.
If you keep creating bad karma, and follow your Guru, it's useless.
~ Guru Rinpoche 《Akini Teaching》
Posted by peoplewatcher on 13-07-2013, 11:30 AM :
Many people today study Zen acquisitively - this is truly a false idea about what has no false ideas.
Just make your mind free. But don't be too tense, and don't be too loose - working this way will save you unlimited mental energy.
~ Zen Master Dahui
Just make your mind free. But don't be too tense, and don't be too loose - working this way will save you unlimited mental energy.
~ Zen Master Dahui
Posted by peoplewatcher on 13-07-2013, 11:28 AM :
People are backwards - ignorant of the true self, they pursue things, willingly suffering immeasurable pains in their greed for a little bit of pleasure. In the mornings, before they've opened their eyes and gotten out of bed, when they're still only half awake, their minds are already flying about in confusion, flowing along with random thoughts. Although good and bad deeds have not yet appeared, heaven and hell are already formed in their hearts befor they even get out of bed. By the time they go into action, the seeds of heaven and hell are already implanted in their minds.
Did not the Buddha say, "All faculties of sense are receptacles manifested by your own mind. Physical bodies are manifestations of your own minds' representations of forms as subjectively imagined. These manifestations are like the flow of a river, like seeds, like a lamp, like wind, passing away from instant to instant. Frenetic activity, attraction to impure things, and voracity are the causes of the useless, deceptive habits that seem to have always existed, like a waterwheel always turning."
If you really see through this, you understand the meaning of impersonality. You know that heaven and hell are nowhere else but in the heart of the half awake individual about to get out of bed - they do not come from outside.
While in the process of waking up, you should really pay attention. While you are paying attention, you should not make any effort to struggle with whatever is going on in your mind. While struggling you waste energy. As the 3rd ancestor of Zen said, "If you try to stop movement and return to stillness, the attempt to be still will increase movement."
When you notice that you are saving energy in the midst of the mundane stress of daily affairs, this is where you gain energy, this is where you attain buddhahood, this is where you turn hell into heaven.
~ Zen Master Dahui
Did not the Buddha say, "All faculties of sense are receptacles manifested by your own mind. Physical bodies are manifestations of your own minds' representations of forms as subjectively imagined. These manifestations are like the flow of a river, like seeds, like a lamp, like wind, passing away from instant to instant. Frenetic activity, attraction to impure things, and voracity are the causes of the useless, deceptive habits that seem to have always existed, like a waterwheel always turning."
If you really see through this, you understand the meaning of impersonality. You know that heaven and hell are nowhere else but in the heart of the half awake individual about to get out of bed - they do not come from outside.
While in the process of waking up, you should really pay attention. While you are paying attention, you should not make any effort to struggle with whatever is going on in your mind. While struggling you waste energy. As the 3rd ancestor of Zen said, "If you try to stop movement and return to stillness, the attempt to be still will increase movement."
When you notice that you are saving energy in the midst of the mundane stress of daily affairs, this is where you gain energy, this is where you attain buddhahood, this is where you turn hell into heaven.
~ Zen Master Dahui
Posted by peoplewatcher on 13-07-2013, 11:19 AM :
If you have been practicing quiet meditation but your mind is still not calm and free when in the midst of activity, this means you haven't been empowered by your quiet meditation.
If you have been practicing quietude just to get rid of agitation, then when you are in the midst of agitation, the agitation will disturb your mind just as if you had never done any quiet meditation.
~ Zen Master Dahui
If you have been practicing quietude just to get rid of agitation, then when you are in the midst of agitation, the agitation will disturb your mind just as if you had never done any quiet meditation.
~ Zen Master Dahui
Posted by peoplewatcher on 13-07-2013, 11:13 AM :
Those who study Zen should be mentally quiet 24 hours a day. When you have nothing to do, you should also sit quietly, making the mind alert and the body tranquil.
Eventually, when you are thoroughly practiced in this, body and mind become spontaneously peaceful and calm, and you have some direction in Zen.
The perfection of mental silence is only to settle scattered and confused awareness. If you cling to stillness as ultimate, you will be taken in by the false Zen of silent illumination.
~ Zen Master Dahui
Eventually, when you are thoroughly practiced in this, body and mind become spontaneously peaceful and calm, and you have some direction in Zen.
The perfection of mental silence is only to settle scattered and confused awareness. If you cling to stillness as ultimate, you will be taken in by the false Zen of silent illumination.
~ Zen Master Dahui
Posted by peoplewatcher on 13-07-2013, 11:10 AM :
"When you have no mind, Zen is easy to find."
In Zen terminology, "mindlessness" does not mean insensitivity or ignorance. It means that the mind is stable and does not get stirred up by the situations and circumstances one encounters; it means the mind does not grasp anything, it is clear in all situations, unimpeded and undefiled, not dwelling on anything, even nondefilement.
~ Zen Master Dahui
In Zen terminology, "mindlessness" does not mean insensitivity or ignorance. It means that the mind is stable and does not get stirred up by the situations and circumstances one encounters; it means the mind does not grasp anything, it is clear in all situations, unimpeded and undefiled, not dwelling on anything, even nondefilement.
~ Zen Master Dahui
Posted by AUTUMN&WINTER on 13-07-2013, 9:28 AM :
The Buddha helps those who have affinity with Him. The question of affinity rests in whether the person accepts the Teachings or not. The Buddha's compassion and Teachings extend over all living beings, just as the sun shines evenly over the great earth. Those who hide in the shade cannot receive the benefits of the sunshine, just as those who cover themselves in ignorance cannot benefit from the Buddha's Teachings. We should truly believe there is heaven and hell. If we practice kind deeds, our future will be in heaven. If we commit evil acts, our future will be in hell.
~ Venerable Master Chin Kung
~ Venerable Master Chin Kung
Posted by AUTUMN&WINTER on 13-07-2013, 8:51 AM :
Shifu said when one's mind is not reciting Amituofo, most likely one is having 贪(greed)嗔(aversion)痴(attachment) thought. Even if it is a good thought, there must be some attachment in it. So, always tune our mind to the name of Amituofo.
Shifu said when one has 贪(greed)嗔(aversion)痴(attachment) thought and unable to get rid of it, request Amituofo to help us to get rid of it.
Shifu said when one has 贪(greed)嗔(aversion)痴(attachment) thought and unable to get rid of it, request Amituofo to help us to get rid of it.
Posted by peoplewatcher on 13-07-2013, 1:20 AM :
You must know how to check yourself before you can attain Zen. It is because of confused minds that people strive on the Way; they go to mountains and forests to see teachers, on the false assumption that there is a particular path that can give people peace and comfort.
They do not know it is best to work on finding out where they got confused.
~ Zen Master Foyan
They do not know it is best to work on finding out where they got confused.
~ Zen Master Foyan
Posted by peoplewatcher on 13-07-2013, 1:18 AM :
The Way is not only evident after explanation and demonstration, because it is always being revealed naturally.
Explanation and demonstration are expedients used to enable you to realize intuitive understanding; they are only temporary byways.
Whether you attain realization through explanation, or enter in through demonstration, or reach the goal by spontaneous sensing through individual awareness, ultimately there is no different thing or separate attainment.
It is just a matter of reaching the source of mind.
~ Zen Master Foyan
Explanation and demonstration are expedients used to enable you to realize intuitive understanding; they are only temporary byways.
Whether you attain realization through explanation, or enter in through demonstration, or reach the goal by spontaneous sensing through individual awareness, ultimately there is no different thing or separate attainment.
It is just a matter of reaching the source of mind.
~ Zen Master Foyan
Posted by peoplewatcher on 13-07-2013, 1:16 AM :
Those who realize Zen enlightenment transcend subject and object. There is no other mysterious principle besides this.
In the course of ordinary daily activities, when you see colors it is a time of realization, and when you hear sounds it is a time of realization. When you eat and drink, this too is a time of realization. This means all these are times of realization when you transcend subject and object in everything.
This is not a matter of long practice, and doesn't need cultivation. It is right here, yet worldly people don't recognize it.
So it is said, "Only with experiential realization do you know the unfathomable."
~ Zen Master Foyan
In the course of ordinary daily activities, when you see colors it is a time of realization, and when you hear sounds it is a time of realization. When you eat and drink, this too is a time of realization. This means all these are times of realization when you transcend subject and object in everything.
This is not a matter of long practice, and doesn't need cultivation. It is right here, yet worldly people don't recognize it.
So it is said, "Only with experiential realization do you know the unfathomable."
~ Zen Master Foyan
Posted by peoplewatcher on 13-07-2013, 1:09 AM :
Suppose a bit of filth gets stuck to a man's nose while he is sleeping. When he awakens, unaware of what has happened, he may notice an odor and start smelling his shirt. Thinking his shirt stinks, he takes it off. But then whatever he picks up smells bad to him. He doesn't realize the smell is on his nose.
Someone tells him, but he doesn't believe it. Told to wipe his nose, he refuses.
He'll realize sooner if he wipes off his nose, but when he eventually washes his face he'll find there is no odor. Then he'll find, when he smells things, that they do not stink after all.
Zen study is like this. Those who will not stop and look into themselves go on looking for intellectual understanding. That pursuit of intellectual understanding, seeking rationalizations and making comparisons, is all wrong.
If people would turn their attention back to the self, they would understand everything.
~ Zen Master Foyan
Someone tells him, but he doesn't believe it. Told to wipe his nose, he refuses.
He'll realize sooner if he wipes off his nose, but when he eventually washes his face he'll find there is no odor. Then he'll find, when he smells things, that they do not stink after all.
Zen study is like this. Those who will not stop and look into themselves go on looking for intellectual understanding. That pursuit of intellectual understanding, seeking rationalizations and making comparisons, is all wrong.
If people would turn their attention back to the self, they would understand everything.
~ Zen Master Foyan
Posted by peoplewatcher on 13-07-2013, 12:56 AM :
When you see, let there be no seer or seen; when you hear, let there be no hearer or heard; when you think; let there be no thinker or thought.
Buddhism is easy and saves the most energy. It's just that you yourself waste energy and cause yourself trouble.
~ Zen Master Foyan
Buddhism is easy and saves the most energy. It's just that you yourself waste energy and cause yourself trouble.
~ Zen Master Foyan
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Posted by blue crystal on 11-07-2013, 8:27 AM :
A Buddhist Poem
A favourite piece from Hakuin’s Song of Meditation
The Song of Meditation
All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas. It is like water and ice:
Apart from water, no ice,
Outside living beings, no Buddhas.
Not knowing it is near, they seek it afar. What a pity!
It is like one in the water who cries out with thirst;
It is like the child of a rich house who has strayed among the poor.
The cause of our circling through the six worlds
Is that we are on the dark paths of ignorance.
Dark path upon dark path treading,
When shall we escape from birth-and-death?
The Zen meditation of the Mahayana
Is beyond all our praise.
Giving and morality and the other perfections,
Taking of the Name, repentance, discipline,
And the many other right actions,
All come back to the practice of meditation.
By the merit of a single sitting
He destroys innumerable accumulated sins.
How should there be wrong paths for him?
The Pure Land paradise is not far.
When in reverence this truth is heard even once,
He who praises it and gladly embraces it has merit without end
How much more he who turns within
And confirms directly his own nature,
That his own nature is no-nature—
Such has transcended vain words.
The gate opens, and cause and effect are one;
A favourite piece from Hakuin’s Song of Meditation
The Song of Meditation
All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas. It is like water and ice:
Apart from water, no ice,
Outside living beings, no Buddhas.
Not knowing it is near, they seek it afar. What a pity!
It is like one in the water who cries out with thirst;
It is like the child of a rich house who has strayed among the poor.
The cause of our circling through the six worlds
Is that we are on the dark paths of ignorance.
Dark path upon dark path treading,
When shall we escape from birth-and-death?
The Zen meditation of the Mahayana
Is beyond all our praise.
Giving and morality and the other perfections,
Taking of the Name, repentance, discipline,
And the many other right actions,
All come back to the practice of meditation.
By the merit of a single sitting
He destroys innumerable accumulated sins.
How should there be wrong paths for him?
The Pure Land paradise is not far.
When in reverence this truth is heard even once,
He who praises it and gladly embraces it has merit without end
How much more he who turns within
And confirms directly his own nature,
That his own nature is no-nature—
Such has transcended vain words.
The gate opens, and cause and effect are one;
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Posted by blue crystal on 10-07-2013, 10:38 AM :
The mountain is like powder,
The Sumeru, a mustard,
The great ocean like one drop,
All induced in mind standard.
From which grows the Bodhi-seed.
Leaves cover many a god.
You who love the Dharma,
Tangle not things easy or hard!
Ancient traces are still on stone,
Highest peak is an empty point.
Moon is always bright and clean
There is no east or west to count.
I look at the clean stream,
And sit on the great stone,
Mind depends on nothing;
All worldly tasks have gone!
- Han Shan, 750
Translated by Yogi C. M. Chen
The Sumeru, a mustard,
The great ocean like one drop,
All induced in mind standard.
From which grows the Bodhi-seed.
Leaves cover many a god.
You who love the Dharma,
Tangle not things easy or hard!
Ancient traces are still on stone,
Highest peak is an empty point.
Moon is always bright and clean
There is no east or west to count.
I look at the clean stream,
And sit on the great stone,
Mind depends on nothing;
All worldly tasks have gone!
- Han Shan, 750
Translated by Yogi C. M. Chen
Posted by blue crystal on 10-07-2013, 10:27 AM :
I glean what the harvesters have overlooked or rejected.
So why are their baskets empty
while mine is bursting with good food?
They just don't recognize their Buddha Nature
when they see it.
Everything in life depends on the choices we make.
- Han Shan Te'-Ch'ing, 1600
The Maxims of Master Han Shan Te'-Ch'ing
Translated by Grandmaster Jy Din Shakya
So why are their baskets empty
while mine is bursting with good food?
They just don't recognize their Buddha Nature
when they see it.
Everything in life depends on the choices we make.
- Han Shan Te'-Ch'ing, 1600
The Maxims of Master Han Shan Te'-Ch'ing
Translated by Grandmaster Jy Din Shakya
Posted by blue crystal on 09-07-2013, 7:56 AM :
The Buddha Mind contains the universe.
In this universe there is only one pure substance,
One absolute and indivisible Truth.
The notion of duality does not exist.
The small mind contains only illusions of separateness, of division.
It imagines myriad objects and defines truth in terms of relative opposites.
Big is defined by small, good by evil, pure by defiled, hidden by revealed, full by empty.
What is opposition?
It is the arena of hostility, of conflict and turmoil.
Where duality is transcended peace reigns.
This is the Dharma’s ultimate truth.
- Maxims of Master Han Shan Te'Ch'ing, # 76, 1600
Journey to Dreamland
Translated by Grandmaster Jy Din Shakya
In this universe there is only one pure substance,
One absolute and indivisible Truth.
The notion of duality does not exist.
The small mind contains only illusions of separateness, of division.
It imagines myriad objects and defines truth in terms of relative opposites.
Big is defined by small, good by evil, pure by defiled, hidden by revealed, full by empty.
What is opposition?
It is the arena of hostility, of conflict and turmoil.
Where duality is transcended peace reigns.
This is the Dharma’s ultimate truth.
- Maxims of Master Han Shan Te'Ch'ing, # 76, 1600
Journey to Dreamland
Translated by Grandmaster Jy Din Shakya
Posted by blue crystal on 09-07-2013, 7:55 AM :
Gone, and a million things leave no trace
Loosed, and it flows through the galaxies
A fountain of light, into the very mind--
Not a thing, and yet it appears before me:
Now I know the pearl of the Buddha-nature
Know its use: a boundless perfect sphere.
- Han-Shan, 750
The Enlightened Heart
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Loosed, and it flows through the galaxies
A fountain of light, into the very mind--
Not a thing, and yet it appears before me:
Now I know the pearl of the Buddha-nature
Know its use: a boundless perfect sphere.
- Han-Shan, 750
The Enlightened Heart
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Posted by blue crystal on 09-07-2013, 7:50 AM :
I enjoy my great Buddhist way,
On plants and stones it is to lay,
My mind's nature is free and vast,
White clouds are with me, day by day!
My path is not open to the world.
My heart is void; unable to say!
On the stone bed I sit alone,
The white moon rises up round and gay!
My mind is like the white moon,
Clean and clear as the mirror,
Nothing can compare with it,
How could I make a metaphor?
- Han Shan, 750
Translated by Yogi C. M. Chen
On plants and stones it is to lay,
My mind's nature is free and vast,
White clouds are with me, day by day!
My path is not open to the world.
My heart is void; unable to say!
On the stone bed I sit alone,
The white moon rises up round and gay!
My mind is like the white moon,
Clean and clear as the mirror,
Nothing can compare with it,
How could I make a metaphor?
- Han Shan, 750
Translated by Yogi C. M. Chen
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Posted by blue crystal on 08-07-2013, 2:42 PM :
Limpid ocean, clear sky,
and moon-reflecting snow;
this is the realm
without a trace of
the holy and sentient.
At the opening
of the diamond eye
flowers of vanity fall.
The whole universe
vanishes into the realm
of extinction.
- Han Shan Te'-Ch'ing, 1600
Nonduality Salon Highlights
and moon-reflecting snow;
this is the realm
without a trace of
the holy and sentient.
At the opening
of the diamond eye
flowers of vanity fall.
The whole universe
vanishes into the realm
of extinction.
- Han Shan Te'-Ch'ing, 1600
Nonduality Salon Highlights
Posted by blue crystal on 08-07-2013, 2:40 PM :
If you can smash through a single thought,
Then all deluded thinking will suddenly be stripped off.
You will feel
Like a flower in the sky that casts no shadows,
Like a bright sun emitting boundless light,
Like a limpid pond, transparent and clear.
After experiencing this,
There will be immeasurable feelings of light and ease,
And a sense of liberation.
There is nothing marvelous or extraordinary about it.
Do not rejoice and wallow in this ravishing experience.
If you do, then the Mara of Joy will possess you.
- Han Shan Te'-Ch'ing, 1600
Essentials of Practice and Enlightenment for Beginners
Translated by Guo-gu Shi
Then all deluded thinking will suddenly be stripped off.
You will feel
Like a flower in the sky that casts no shadows,
Like a bright sun emitting boundless light,
Like a limpid pond, transparent and clear.
After experiencing this,
There will be immeasurable feelings of light and ease,
And a sense of liberation.
There is nothing marvelous or extraordinary about it.
Do not rejoice and wallow in this ravishing experience.
If you do, then the Mara of Joy will possess you.
- Han Shan Te'-Ch'ing, 1600
Essentials of Practice and Enlightenment for Beginners
Translated by Guo-gu Shi
Posted by blue crystal on 08-07-2013, 2:39 PM :
Look upon the body as unreal,
an image in a mirror,
the reflection of the moon in water.
Contemplate the mind as formless,
yet bright and pure.
Not a single thought arising,
empty, yet perceptive;
still, yet illuminating;
complete like the great emptiness,
containing all that is wonderful.
- Han Shan Te'-Ch'ing, 1600
an image in a mirror,
the reflection of the moon in water.
Contemplate the mind as formless,
yet bright and pure.
Not a single thought arising,
empty, yet perceptive;
still, yet illuminating;
complete like the great emptiness,
containing all that is wonderful.
- Han Shan Te'-Ch'ing, 1600
Posted by drdoof on 07-07-2013, 2:15 PM :
When a rainbow appears vividly in the sky, you can see its beautiful colors, yet you could not wear as clothing or put it on as an ornament. It arises through the conjunction of various factors, but there is nothing about it that can be grasped. Likewise, thoughts that arise in the mind have no tangible existence or intrinsic solidity. There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Posted by AUTUMN&WINTER on 06-07-2013, 8:39 AM :
HRC_987 wrote:
Hi all,
Been doing some meditating on my own, reciting om mani padme hum and heart sutra as much as I can.
Though it has help me rid many negative emotions, i still cant get around the fact that I can't do more to improve my family conditions, that my present job/ situation allows...
Anyone has words of wisdom or advice??
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Recite Nanmo Amituofo (for smooth sailing life), Nanmo Di Zang Wang Pusa （南无地藏王菩萨）(It is stated in the sutra that anyone who recites His name will be 丰衣足食 (no worries for food and clothings), or Nanmo Guan Shi Yin Pusa (for problem solving).
You can recite the above Buddhas' name on alternate days if you don't have time to recite them all in 1 day. That's what I do. Recite as many times as you can, no specific number of times. Pusas are here to help us to have a smooth sailing life so that we can spend more time in practicing towards liberation from rebirth than spending too much time in solving our daily livelihood problems.
Many people experience 丰衣足食 by reciting Nanmo Di Zang Wang Pusa, including me. Following is just one of the story from the website :
余净温四十三岁，饶平海山人，家境贫困，丈夫过世后，所遗子女都要她一人负担，生活更困难，而且所做事都不顺利，心中甚为忧愁。
一天，去邻近石壁庵拜佛，求菩萨保佑丰衣足食，旁有一居士对她说：“你要丰衣足食，只要念地藏菩萨好了”。她听了后回家就诚恳地念起地藏菩萨来。念了一个月后，她儿子有工作了，自己谋事也顺利。一年后，去石壁庵谢菩萨保佑，笑嘻嘻地对人说，现在三个孩子都有工作，生活大大好转，还准备凑些钱建新房呢。
Recite Nanmo Amituofo (for smooth sailing life), Nanmo Di Zang Wang Pusa （南无地藏王菩萨）(It is stated in the sutra that anyone who recites His name will be 丰衣足食 (no worries for food and clothings), or Nanmo Guan Shi Yin Pusa (for problem solving).
You can recite the above Buddhas' name on alternate days if you don't have time to recite them all in 1 day. That's what I do. Recite as many times as you can, no specific number of times. Pusas are here to help us to have a smooth sailing life so that we can spend more time in practicing towards liberation from rebirth than spending too much time in solving our daily livelihood problems.
Many people experience 丰衣足食 by reciting Nanmo Di Zang Wang Pusa, including me. Following is just one of the story from the website :
余净温四十三岁，饶平海山人，家境贫困，丈夫过世后，所遗子女都要她一人负担，生活更困难，而且所做事都不顺利，心中甚为忧愁。
一天，去邻近石壁庵拜佛，求菩萨保佑丰衣足食，旁有一居士对她说：“你要丰衣足食，只要念地藏菩萨好了”。她听了后回家就诚恳地念起地藏菩萨来。念了一个月后，她儿子有工作了，自己谋事也顺利。一年后，去石壁庵谢菩萨保佑，笑嘻嘻地对人说，现在三个孩子都有工作，生活大大好转，还准备凑些钱建新房呢。
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