Archive for ‘truths’

Greatest

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

The greatest beneficiary of forgiveness is usually yourself.

link: Rick Hanson

preceded

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

Phenomena are
preceded by the heart
ruled by the heart
made of the heart.

If you speak or act with a corrupted heart,
then suffering follows you,
as the wheel of the cart follows
the track of the ox that pulls it.

Phenomena are
preceded by the heart
ruled by the heart
made of the heart.

If you speak or act with a calm, bright heart,
then happiness follows you,
like a shadow that never leaves.

link: my buddha is pink

truth

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

It’s called the noble truth of suffering, not the shitty truth of suffering.

- Frank Berliner

link: Dangerous Harvest

each

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Each form, each particle, is a Buddha. One form is all Buddhas. All forms, all particles, are all Buddhas. All forms, sounds, scents, feelings, and phenomena are also like this, each filling all fields.

link: Pai-chang

Groove

Friday, July 9th, 2010

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

link: Krishnamurti

observation

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

His Holiness spoke of his conversations with highly intelligent western quantum physicists in which the striking similarities between Buddhist teachings and this fascinating field of science were touched on. Just like Nagarjuna describes in his text, these quantum physicists attest that when their work takes them very far into observation of matter and existence, they eventually get to a point where they can no longer prove anything exists at all! Obviously, the fact Buddhists are able to cite an ancient Buddhist text that says essentially the exact same thing as this cutting edge field of western scientific inquiry is quite impressive to the physicists.

link: Tricycle

strives

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

Sometimes

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Sometimes it seems that the going is just too rough
And things go wrong no matter what I do
Now and then it seems that life is just too much
But you’ve got the love I need to see me through

You got the love
You got the love

Time after time I think “Oh Lord what’s the use?”
Time after time I think it’s just no good 
Sooner or later in life, the things you love you loose
But you got the love I need to see me through

You got the love
You got the love

link: You’ve Got The Love