Nothing, we work with nothing, but we work with life, and that is all.
- Ruth Denison
link: mind deep
Archive for ‘path’
Nothing
Thursday, October 21st, 2010shortcut
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010A shortcut into the path is to be inwardly empty and outwardly quiet, like water that is clear and still, myriad images reflecting in it, neither sinking nor floating, all things spontaneously so.
- Fu-jung
A shortcut into the path is to be inwardly empty and outwardly quiet, like water that is clear and still, myriad images reflecting in it, neither sinking nor floating, all things spontaneously so.
link: Fu-jung
precious
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010I must free all the human beings, from whom I receive all my past, present, and future happiness, realizations of the path, and enlightenment, who are the most precious, most kind ones in my life, from all sufferings and their causes, and bring them to enlightenment by myself alone.
link: 35 Buddhas Practice
human
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010It is hard to be born as a human being and hard to live the life of one. It is even harder to hear of the path and harder still to awake, to rise, and to follow. Yet the teaching is simple: “Cease to do evil, learn to do good. And purify your mind.”
link: dhammapada
further
Saturday, May 8th, 2010“People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That’s not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn’t understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you’re given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give you everything you need to open further.”
link: Pema Chödrön
View
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Reality 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
