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Meditation Seed Thoughts What God will you invent today what do you need or Fear What conditioned notion will you lose that you hold Dear, Just because you Suffer so you devise your own Savior Yet will not save you but your own thinking and behavior. -- Yogajyotii Just don’t seek from others, Or you’ll be far estranged from Self. I now go on alone; Everywhere I meet It: It now is me; I now am It. One must understand in this way To merge with thusness. -- Dongshan Liangjie Mind the octopus grasping any experience and demanding for more. -- Visarjana Entangled by the bonds of hate, he who seeks his own happiness by inflicting pain on others, is never delivered from hatred. -- Dhammapada Master, will you please write for me some maxims of the highest wisdom? Ikkyu immediately took his brush and wrote the word "Attention." One narrow path surrounded by a dense forest; On all sides, mountains lie in darkness. The autumn leaves have already fallen. No rain, but still the rocks are dark with moss. Returning to my hermitage along a way known to few, Carrying a basket of fresh mushrooms And a jar of pure water from the temple well. -- Ryokan If by renouncing a lesser happiness one may realize a greater happiness, let the wise one renounce the lesser, having regard for the greater. -- Dhammapada Your Salvation is in Purifying your BEing acts and thinking Just Purified by Nothing left to let go or left for any linking, We must Empathize with those who can not Understand Because we can not Save the world though in Demand. -- Yogajyotii When water is pure and sparkling clear You see straight to the bottom When your mind holds no concern No circumstance can turn you And once your mind doesn’t stray A kalpa has no changes From such awareness nothing hides. -- Cold Mountain One has to keep the mind unruffled and not be affected by the fleeting phenomena around one. When the mind is unmoved, one will not be enslaved by wordly events. -- Huineng Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes. Having known these two paths of progress and decline, let a man so conduct himself that his wisdom may increase. -- Dhammapada When you are at ease with yourself, you are at ease everywhere; in the crowd, in the mountain, in the market place, alone. -- Nahsti If your ears see, And eyes hear, Not a doubt you’ll cherish How naturally the rain drips From the eaves! -- Daito Kokushi How short this life! You die this side of a century, but even if you live past, you die of old age. -- Sutta Nipata One and the same breeze passes Over the pines on the mountain And the oak trees in the valley; Why do they give different notes? -- Shinkage-ryu sword school There is hope in men, not in society, not in systems, not in organized religious systems, but in you and in me. -- J. Krishnamurti We are not a Superman and we are really not ten feet tall After we Realize there is a little tear in our cape so we fall, What we thought was the cape was conditioning's abuse Realize a halo only has to fall a few inches to be a noose. -- Yogajyotii By love they will quench the fire of hate, by wisdom the fire of delusion. Those supreme ones extinguish delusion with wisdom that breaks through to truth. -- Itivuttaka Holding my sweater and Facing the fragrant peony, I sense how different our viewpoints are. Someday our hair will turn gray, Yet the flowers will be this red each year; Following the morning dew, Each blooms gorgeously Then their sweet scent is Chased by the evening winds. Why wail till they have withered and fallen To understand such emptiness? -- Fa Yen In every virtue all-accomplished, with wisdom full and mind composed, looking within and ever mindful-thus one crosses the raging flood. -- Sutta Nipata Sages do not want anything And do not avoid anything. When you want something, That may make you lose it; And if you try to avoid something, That may just bring it about. When you desire something in your heart, Then you forget what you are doing. Therefore sages carefully examine the Changes of action and repose, Adjusting the measures of Receiving and giving suitably, Governing feelings of Like and dislike rationally, And harmonizing degrees of joy and anger. -- Lao-tzu I don't mean that years of practicing zen meditation leave us like a zombie. Quite the opposite. We really have more genuine emotions, more feeling for people. We are not so caught up in our own inner states. -- Charlotte Joko Beck One who is virtuous and wise shines forth like a blazing fire; like a bee collecting nectar he acquires wealth by harming none. -- Digha Nikaya We are Sleeping automatons getting light from an unlit fire Blindly thinking that to be Saved all we need is the Desire, Just Wake-Up a time or two and you will most easily See That if you want Awakening it is Awakening you must BE. -- Yogajyotii Don’t say that only clear water mirrors the moon. Muddy water also reflects the sky. Watch, after wind has settled and the waves are calm, for a wonderful moon, as lovely as before. -- Lin Chi Chung The spiritual aspirant must swim upstream, against the current of habit, familiarity and ease. -- Eknath Easwaran Consort only with the good, come together with the good. To learn the teaching of the good gives wisdom like nothing else can. -- Samyutta Nikaya Each night I gaze upon a pond, A Zen body sitting beside a moon. Nothing is really there and yet It is all so clear and bright I cannot describe it. If you would know the empty mind Your own mind must be as clear and bright As this full moon upon the water. -- Chiao Jan Good friends and excellent teachers - Stick close to them! Wealth and power are fleeting dreams but wise words perfume the world for ages. -- Ryokan Mind precedes all things; mind is their chief, mind is their maker. If one speaks or does a deed with a mind that is pure within, happiness then follows along like a never departing shadow. -- Dhammapada It is not our Duality that we're Awakening from the Illusion But rather in our NonDuality that does end the Confusion, It is not in taking on more conditioned ideas and images And meanings and notions of all sorts that are Mirages. -- Yogajyotii Difficult to detect and very subtle, the mind seizes whatever it wants; so let a wise man guard his mind, for a guarded mind brings happiness. -- Dhammapada Light rain, the mountain forest Is wrapped in mist, Slowly the fog changes To clouds and haze. Along the boundless river bank, Many crows. I walk to a hill overlooking the valley To sit in zazen. -- Ryokan With dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease. -- Eckhart Tolle One who has crossed over the mire, crushed the thorn of sensuality, reached the ending of delusion, is a monk undisturbed by bliss & pain. -- Udana All along the trail of moss, I followed your wooden shoeprints. White clouds hung around your little island Where spring grass hid your unlocked door. I enjoyed the colors of pines after rain And reached the river’s source Along the mountain trail. Facing the stream and the flowers I came inside a sense of Zen, Yet cannot find the words. -- Liu Chang Ching Everybody knows the logic of a truth, but how many people actually practise it? -- Daolin When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge. -- Confucius In spring, hundreds of flowers; In autumn, a harvest moon; In summer a refreshing breeze; In winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, Any season is a good season for you. - - Mu-mon Your own treasure house already contains everything you need. Why don't you use it freely, instead of chasing after something outside yourself? -- Ma Tzu Wholeness/Completeness the foundation of NonDuality Because All Is One Unity of Multiplicity as is our Totality, What is volition other than the ability for you to choose Volition and choice Divine or otherwise we must Lose. -- Yogajyotii No mother nor father nor any other kin can do greater good for oneself than a mind directed well. -- Dhammapada Meditating deeply Reach the depth of the source. Branching streams cannot Compare to this source! Sitting alone in a great silence Even though the heavens Turn and the earth is upset, You will not even wink. -- Nyogen Senzaki Live without covetous greed, fill your mind with benevolence. Be mindful and one-pointed, inwardly stable and concentrated. -- Anguttara Nikaya Which way Did you come from, Following dream paths at night, While snow is still deep In this mountain recess? -- Ryokan This is to be done by one skilled in aims who wants to break through to the state of peace: Be capable, upright, & straightforward, easy to instruct, gentle, & not conceited, content & easy to support, with few duties, living lightly, with peaceful faculties, masterful, modest, & no greed for supporters. Do not do the slightest thing that the wise would later censure. -- Sutta Nipata Do we not cherish the Infinite brightness Of the one bright pearl? Who can surpass The virtue of this Brilliant, radiant pearl That covers the universe? The essence of causality Never ceases and The pearl is always bright. It is our original face and enlightened eye. -- Dogen It is one's Understanding/Awareness of What-IS Truth That must be inclusive of All as IS deprived from youth, For individual importance even if it may be Regression Whos singular presence in the universe is possession. -- Yogajyotii Irrigators direct the water, Fletchers fashion the shaft, Carpenters bend the wood, The wise control themselves. -- Dhammapada The great path has no gates, Thousands of roads enter it. When one passes through this gateless gate He walks freely between heaven and earth. -- Mu-mon Understanding is now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is for the lazy mind, the sluggish mind, the mind that is not interested. Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow. -- J. Krishnamurti Think not lightly of good, saying, "It will not come to me." Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good. -- Dhammapada Sixty-six times have these eyes beheld the changing scene of autumn. I have said enough about moonlight, Ask no more. Only listen to the voice of pines and cedars when no wind stirs. -- Ryonen Just as a mountain of rock, is unwavering, well-settled, so the monk whose delusion is ended, like a mountain, is undisturbed. -- Udana If All Is One who is to choose if All Is One what choices Yet who is to create but rearrange the pitch of Voices, There can only be One or Two the seeming mixture fool If you are to be Whole or Total or Oneness BE the Tool. -- Yogajyotii Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge. -- Digha Nikaya Sitting on top of a boulder The gorge stream icy cold Quiet fun holds a special charm Fogged-in on deserted cliffs A fine place to rest The sun leans and tree shadows sprawl While I view the ground of my mind A lotus comes out of the mud. -- Cold Mountain Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions. -- J. Borysenko Not twice this day Inch time foot gem. This day will not come again. Each minute a priceless gem -- Takuan You are your own master, you make your future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred. -- Dhammapada Aloneness is a flower, a lotus blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive, aloneness is health. It is the joy of being yourself. -- Osho If you want to be free, Get to know your real self. It has no form, no appearance, No root, no basis, no abode, But is lively and buoyant. It responds with versatile facility, But its function cannot be located. Therefore when you look for it, You become further from it; When you seek it, You turn away from it all the more. -- Rinzai Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, hearing which one attains peace. -- Dhammapada It is not our Duality that we're Awakening from the Illusion But rather in our NonDuality that does end the Confusion, It is not in taking on more conditioned ideas and images And meanings and notions of all sorts that are Mirages. -- Yogajyotii Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, die when you die. -- Zen Saying The perfect way’s like boundless space Nothing lacking, nothing extra It is because of choice That its absolute truth is lost. Don’t pursue externals; Don’t dally in the interior void. When the spirit remains serene In the unity of things Dualism vanishes by itself; When that unity is not clear There is loss in both directions. -- Seng-ts'an Any moment is the best moment and any place, the best place. If only you perceive this whole heartedly. -- Panshan Clear the land, thatch the rush for roof, All around cherish the empty, the pure. Mountain blossoms fall by a secluded door, Within, one who has forgotten the world’s schemings. Concern with existence needs no possession, Comprehending the void does not wait upon reason, All things are of conditions born, Profound is the silence in the midst of clamor. A person’s mind is very much the same; A bird in flight, leaving no tracks behind. -- Liu Zongyuan The gift of Dhamma triumphs over all other gifts; the taste of Dhamma triumphs over all other tastes; the happiness of Dhamma triumphs over all other pleasures; the eradication of craving triumphs over all suffering. -- Dhammapada There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; my philosophy is kindness. -- Dalai lama If you meet a fencing master on the road, show him your sword, If you meet a poet, offer her your poem. When you meet others, say only a part of what you intend. Never give the whole thing at once. -- Mu-mon "Impermanent are all compounded things." When one perceives this with true insight, then one becomes detached from suffering; this is the path of purification. -- Dhammapada Meditating deeply Reach the depth of the source. Branching streams cannot Compare to this source! Sitting alone in a great silence Even though the heavens Turn and the earth is upset, You will not even wink. -- Nyogen Senzaki Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone. -- Dhammapada The mind of a true man is like a mirror which reflects whatever is before it and when the thing is gone, it returns to nothingness. Its purity is preserved moment to moment. -- Zhuang Zi Which way Did you come from, Following dream paths at night, While snow is still deep In this mountain recess? -- Ryokan Train yourself in doing good that lasts and brings happiness. Cultivate generosity, the life of peace, and a mind of boundless love. -- Ittivuttuka If you want to be free, Get to know your real self. It has no form, no appearance, No root, no basis, no abode, But is lively and buoyant. It responds with versatile facility, But its function cannot be located. Therefore when you look for it, You become further from it; When you seek it, You turn away from it all the more. -- Rinzai Knowing that the other person is angry, one who remains mindful and calm acts for his own best interest and for the other's interest, too. -- Samyutta Nikaya By doing evil, one defiles oneself; by avoiding evil, one purifies oneself. Purity and impurity depend upon oneself: no one can purify another. -- Dhammapada If All Is One who is to choose if All Is One what choices Yet who is to create but rearrange the pitch of Voices, There can only be One or Two the seeming mixture fool If you are to be Whole or Total or Oneness BE the Tool. -- Yogajyotii The perfect way’s like boundless space Nothing lacking, nothing extra It is because of choice That its absolute truth is lost. Don’t pursue externals; Don’t dally in the interior void. When the spirit remains serene In the unity of things Dualism vanishes by itself; When that unity is not clear There is loss in both directions. -- T’sen T’sang Generosity, kind words, doing a good turn for others, and treating all people alike: these bonds of sympathy are to the world what the lynch-pin is to the chariot wheel. -- Anguttara Nikaya A life of Zen is to perceive at any time the beauty of the moment. Mind and body are always one; when eating, eat, and when sleeping, sleep. -- Zen With his wealth collected justly, won through his own efforts, he shares both food and drink with beings who are in need. -- Itivuttaka Sleeping we have no Freedom at all True Freedom is no For Freedom IS no more conditioned notions left to let go, When all the conditioned folly is no longer present there Thus Freedom to BE and AS such Freedom IS Aware. -- Yogajyotii One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. -- Sutta Nipata When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity. As long as you remain in one extreme or the other you will never know Oneness. -- Sosan Above, across or back again, wherever he goes in the world let him carefully scrutinise the rise and fall of compounded things. -- Itivuttaka The monkey is reaching For the moon in the water. Until death overtakes him He’ll never give up. If he’d let go the branch and Disappear in the deep pool, The whole world would shine With dazzling pureness. -- Hakuin Watchfulness is the path of immortality: unwatchfulness is the path of death. Those who are watchful never die: those who do not watch are already as dead. -- The Dhammapada Someone asked, "What do you mean by the true Buddha, the true Dharma and the true Way? Would you be good enough to explain to us?" The Master said,"The Buddha- this is the cleanness and purity of the mind. The Dharma- this is the shining brightness of the mind. The Way- this is the pure light that is never obstructed anywhere. The three are in fact one. All are empty names and have no true reality." -- Lin-chi Only when we wish upon a falling star or with a penny Only when we fail to BE who we ARE due to the many, It is being too Painful do we *wish* for greener pastures And to arrogantly *think* that we are our own Masters. -- Yogajyotii All tremble at punishment. Life is dear to all. Put yourself in the place of others; kill none nor have another killed. -- Dhammapada In spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; In summer, a refreshing breeze; In winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, Any season is a good season for you. -- Ekai I found my way up Yoshino’s precipice-hung Path and into its Past, seeing there the blossoms I sought that spring - ages ago. -- Saigyo Even when obstacles crowd in, the path to Nibbana can be won by those who establish mindfulness and bring to perfection equipoise. -- Samyutta Nikaya If your mind is fixed on a certain spot, It will be seized by that spot and No activities can be performed efficiently. Not to fix your mind anywhere is essential. Not fixed anywhere, The mind is everywhere - The Original Mind is like water which flows freely Whereas the deluded mind is like ice There is a passage in the Diamond Sutra that says: "The mind should operate without abiding anywhere." -- Takuan If one, longing for sensual pleasure, achieves it, yes, he's enraptured at heart. The mortal gets what he wants. But if for that person -- longing, desiring -- the pleasures diminish, he's shattered, as if shot with an arrow. -- Sutta Nipata Mind set free in the Dharma-realm, I sit at the moon-filled window Watching the mountains with my ears, Hearing the stream with open eyes. Each molecule preaches perfect law, Each moment chants true sutra: The most fleeting thought is timeless, A single hair’s enough to stir the sea. -- Shutaku We want some control of a Cosmic Law such as Karma Yet is the sheer folly because our Karma IS our Dharma, Indeed not helpless IF we Wake-Up from what is Told For Sleeping we are conditioned programmed controlled. -- Yogajyotii Were there a mountain all made of gold, doubled that would not be enough to satisfy a single man: know this and live accordingly. -- Samyutta Nikaya My meditation is simple; it does not require any complex practices. It is very simple. It is singing, it is dancing. It is sitting silently. It is being at ease with existence. -- Osho Although the marvelous Lines are difficult to trace, Still I can make out Several layers of mountains, A jumble of peaks, Like shell-spiraled locks of hair. Faraway streams and mountains, Peaks swathed in clouds, Just like a painting, Have captured the essence. Gazing into emptiness, I long to ask the monk about it. If I don’t learn the meaning Of the reclusive life, I can but sigh with regret until the day I die! -- Su Shih The worse of the two is he who, when abused, retaliates. One who does not retaliate wins a battle hard to win. -- Samyutta Nikaya For about thirty years I wandered, Searching for the real Tao everywhere. How many times did I see the trees Grow new branches and watch The old leaves fall? But at this moment, Seeing the peach blossoms, Suddenly, there are no more doubts. -- Huang Shan-ku If you want a free lunch go down to the Diner Budo But when you want to Dance then you must let go, When you see Hubbard at a cupboard with a bone Then you will know that the Path is One all Alone. -- Yogajyotii Wonderful it is to train the mind so swiftly moving, seizing whatever it wants. Good is it to have a well-trained mind, for a well-trained mind brings happiness. -- Dhammapada
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