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.

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

Posted by AUTUMN&WINTER on 14-07-2013, 2:17 PM :

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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

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