“The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.”
link: Pema Chödrön
Archive for ‘theory’
emotional
Friday, April 16th, 2010Know
Monday, March 22nd, 2010The quality of your action depends on the quality of your being. Suppose you’re eager to offer happiness, to make someone happy. That’s a good thing to do. But if you’re not happy, then you can’t do that. In order to make another person happy, you have to be happy yourself. So there’s a link between doing and being. If you don’t succeed in being, you can’t succeed in doing. If you don’t feel that you’re on the right path, happiness isn’t possible. This is true for everyone; if you don’t know where you’re going, you suffer. It’s very important to realize your path and see your true way.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
link: Tricycle
authentic
Saturday, February 20th, 2010If anyone wants authentic Buddhist snake oil they first have to have faith that they are intrinsically enlightened but continue to suffer because they are attached to things that cause them not to realize—or even get close—to their true enlightened nature.
link: the zennist
Alas!
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Alas! This body is like a machine, a nexus of bones and tendons. It is like a magical illusion, consisting of falsifications. It is like a dream, being an unreal vision. It is like a reflection, being the image of former actions. It is like an echo, being dependent on conditioning. It is like a cloud, being characterized by turbulence and dissolution. It is like a flash of lightning, being unstable and decaying every moment. The body is ownerless, being the product of a variety of conditions.
link: Vimalakirti Sutra
Intentions
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Just as material things are made of dust, so too are our perceptions and thoughts mere dust. Just as it takes only a moment to wipe the dust from the surface of a mirror, so it takes only a moment to become enlightened, the moment all defiled intentions are cleared from our consciousness, we will see ourselves in the mirror of perfect truth
- Master Hsing Yun
link: Master Hsing Yun
insubstantial
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010“Bhikkhus, form is impermanent; that which is impermanent is suffering; that which is suffering is insubstantial (anatta); that which is insubstantial is not mine, I am not that, that is not my substance. Thus must this be viewed with perfect insight as it really is” (S. iii. 45).
link: the zennist
Highest
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.
- Alan Watts
link: thinkexist
Wash
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010“If nothing truly exists, what are you bathing? Where could even the slightest bit of dust come from?. . . Even if you see no difference between the water and the dirt, it all must be washed completely away when you enter here.”
link: Kongshi Daoren
