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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
The Buddhist approach to faith is that you help yourself rather than being helped by something outside yourself. You learn that you can help yourself, completely, and you have faith in your ability to do so. Buddhism is not particularly a centralized philosophy, which would be symbolized by a pyramid. Rather, one of the main symbols for Buddhism is a wheel. It is a circular approach rather than a pyramid approach. Your effort is recirculated. What you put out in a situation goes out and around and it comes back to you. Faith here is the solid ground of real appreciation of things as they are: that fire burns, that water flows. It is based on a real experience of how things work.
-Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
link: Ocean of Dharma
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Sunday, October 17th, 2010
I close my eyes
only for a moment
and the moment’s gone
all my dreams
pass before my eyes a curiosity
dust in the wind
all we are is dust in the wind
Same old song
just a drop of water
in the endless sea
all we do
crumbles to the ground
though we refuse to see
dust in the wind
all we are is dust in the wind
Now, don’t hang on
nothing lasts forever
but the earth and sky
it slips away
And all your money
won’t another minute buy
Dust in the wind
all we are is dust in the wind
dust in the wind
everything is dust in the wind
link: Kansas
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
It is our task to use the tools of meditation, mindfulness, spiritual friendship and study to gradually channel our energy more positively, to help us break through our fears and self-imposed limitations. To do this we have to learn to be patient, to introduce a gap between any experience of being hurt or misunderstood, and our response to that experience. We need to learn to forgive others for their imperfections and insensitivity. We need to learn how to disagree without being intolerant. And we need to be receptive to the vast perspective of the Dharma and allow it to change us.
link: Ratnaghosa
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas. Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with true Enlightenment. The wise man strives to no goals but the foolish man fetters himself. There is one Dharma, not many; distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the ignorant. To seek Mind with the [discriminating] mind is the greatest of all mistakes.
- Seng-ts’an
link: Seng-ts’an
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Reality as it is becomes the right view of the meditator. Thinking of it as it is becomes the right thought. Awareness of it as it is becomes the right awareness. Concentration on it as it is becomes the right concentration. Actions of the body and speech are then aligned to reality as it is. In this way the meditator develops and is fulfilled.
link: Majjhima Nikaya
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
“The path of dharma, the dharma marga, provides all kinds of problems, and we work along with those. Without that path, we would fall asleep. Suppose highways were without any bends, just like Roman roads, a one-shot deal straight from New York to Washington, 100 percent straight. The drivers would fall asleep. Because of that, there would be more accidents than if the road had bends in it with road signs here and there. The path is personal experience, and one should take delight in those little things that go on in our lives, the obstacles, seductions, paranoias, depressions, and openness. All kinds of things happen, and that is the content of the journey, which is extremely powerful and important.”
- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
link: shambhala sunspace
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
“Monks, there exists that condition where is neither earth nor water nor fire nor air: wherein is neither the sphere of infinite space nor of infinite consciousness nor of nothingness nor of neither-consciousness-nor-unconsciousness; where there is neither this world nor a world beyond nor both together nor moon-and-sun. Thence, monks, I declare is no coming to birth; thither is no going from life; therein is no duration; thence is not falling; there is no arising. It is not something fixed, it moves not on, it is not based on anything - it cannot be made an object of thought or sense. That indeed is the end of Ill”
link: udana
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Taking Refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha (also known as the Precious Three Jewels), is a ceremony where one formally becomes a Buddhist. By taking refuge, we commit ourselves to freedom. Having exhausted our strategies of distraction, denial, and escapism, we find that learning to experience reality directly through the path of meditation is a life-affirming choice.
link: shambhala.org
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