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Meditation Seed Thoughts As Namaste is to say *may the Divine Essence IN me Embrace the Divine Essence IN you as a Divine Essence of One*, so too Metta is to say *may the Loving Kindness IN me Embrace the Loving Kindness IN you as Loving Kindness of One*, so too Zikr is to say *may the Self Remembering IN me Embrace the Self Remembering IN you as a Self Remembrance of One*. It is in the Inner Embracing of each other that we Realize that we are all cut from the same bolt of cloth yet most do not Realize it yet. -- Yogajyotii Although thought, words, logic and reasoning are obviously necessary to lead a moral life, they do not by themselves constitute living. They are all based on memory of the known and are products of the split-mind, the mind divided by the intrusion of a spurious 'me'. To LIVE without thought, without words, is to be receptive to the unknown with the whole mind. -- Ramesh Balsekar No mother nor father nor any other kin can do greater good for oneself than a mind directed well. -- Dhammapada The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. -- Charles C. Colton Wonderful! Wonderful! The sermon of the inanimate is inconceivable. If you try to hear it with your ears After all you'll hardly understand Only when you hear it in your eyes Will you be able to know. -- Dongshan Live without covetous greed, fill your mind with benevolence. Be mindful and one-pointed, inwardly stable and concentrated. -- Anguttara Nikaya Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously. Seriousness is the root cause of problems. Be playful, and you will not miss anything. -- Osho 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 Though we've been dwelling together, I don't know his name: Going along accepting the flow, just being thus, even the eminent sages since antiquity don't know him - how could the hasty ordinary type presume to understand? -- Shitou Every person is an instrument of the Buddha law. Never once think yourself not so. By practice you will assuredly have direct experience of it. -- Dogen Irrigators direct the water, Fletchers fashion the shaft, Carpenters bend the wood, The wise control themselves. -- Dhammapada Do not permit the events of your daily lives to bind you, but never withdraw yourselves from them. Only by acting thus can you earn the title of a Liberated One. -- Zen Master Huang Po Even as rain penetrates an ill-thatched house, so does lust penetrate an undeveloped mind. Even as rain does not penetrate a well-thatched house, so does lust not penetrate a well-developed mind. -- Dhammapada You must act only for this day and this hour. Because tomorrow is unfixed and difficult to know. You must meditate without wasting time, thinking that there is only this day and this hour. After that it becomes truly easy. -- Dogen 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 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 And Joy is Everywhere; It is in the Earth's green covering of grass; In the blue serenity of the Sky; In the reckless exuberance of Spring; In the severe abstinence of gray Winter; In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame; In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright; In Living; In the exercise of all our powers; In the acquisition of Knowledge; In fighting evils... Joy is there Everywhere. -- Rabindranath Tagore 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 When you run so fast to get somewhere You miss half the fun of getting there. When you worry and hurry through your day, It is like an unopened gift.... Thrown away. Life is not a race. Do take it slower Hear the music Before the song is over. Just as a mountain of rock, is unwavering, well-settled, so the monk whose delusion is ended, like a mountain, is undisturbed. -- Udana With desire the world is tied down. With the subduing of desire it's freed. With the abandoning of desire all bonds are cut through. -- Samyutta Nikaya When this is, that is. From the arising of this, comes the arising of that. When this isn't, that isn't. From the cessation of this, comes the cessation of that. -- Udana Long is the night to the wakeful; long is the league to the weary; long is samsara to the foolish who know not the Sublime Truth. -- Dhammapada At last I've broken Unmon's barrier! There's exit everywhere - east, west; north, south. In at morning, out at evening; neither host nor guest. My every step stirs up a little breeze. -- Daito 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 Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in it's course. It will go it's own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you. -- Sheng-Yen You are your own master, you make your future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred. -- Dhammapada I enjoy my lifelong path Between misty vines and rocky cave In the wilds there's room to spare And time to accompany clouds The road doesn't reach the world Only the mindless can climb I sit alone nights on a couch of stone And the round moon comes up Cold Mountain. -- Han shan Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. -- Buddha Whatever harm an enemy may do to an enemy, or a hater to a hater, an ill-directed mind inflicts on oneself a greater harm. Neither mother, father, nor any other relative can do one greater good than one's own well-directed mind. -- The Dhammapada The myriad differences resolved by sitting, all doors opened... In this still place I follow my nature, be what it may. From the one hundred flowers I wander freely, the soaring cliff - my hall of meditation with the moon emerged, the mind is motionless. -- Reizan Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, hearing which one attains peace. -- Dhammapada Those of peaceful mind, discerning, mindful and given to meditation, clearly see things rightly and long not for sensual pleasures. -- Itivuttaka Traceless, no more need to hide. Now the old mirror reflects everything, Autumn light moistened by faint mist. -- Suian If one holds oneself dear, one should diligently watch oneself. Let the wise man keep vigil during any of the three watches of the night. If one holds oneself dear, one should protect oneself well. During every one of the three watches the wise man should keep vigil. -- The Dhammapada The mountain; Buddha's body. The torrent; his preaching. Last night, eighty-four thousand poems. How, how to make them understand? -- Layman Sotobo The great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right. All things depend upon it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claim. It loves and nourishes all things, but does not lord it over them. -- Chuang tzu 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 When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan The original sin is our inveterate habit of regarding the spiritual not as the rule but as an exception in the midst of nature. -- William James Thought, desire and fear are all based on time or duration through memory - they are not of the present moment. They disappear along with time itself when volition has been abandoned or surrendered. Man frees himself from the world, its ills, its suffering, its chaos simply by seeing the absurdity of it all. -- Ramesh Balsekar "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 In the still night by the vacant window, Wrapped in monk’s robe I sit in meditation, Navel and nostrils lines up straight, Ears paired to the slope of the shoulders. Window whitens - the moon comes up; Rain’s stopped, but drops go on dripping. Wonderful - the moon of this moment - Distant, vast. -- Ryokan The sage lives in complete apprehension of the fact that there is no individual doing anything, whether it be writing, walking, talking or anything else. Thus, he may be said to walk a thousand miles without setting a foot outside of his house or speak for forty years without saying a word. -- Ramesh Balsekar 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 For all these years, my certain Zen: Neither I nor the world exist. The sutras neat within the box, My cane hooked upon the wall, I lie at peace in moonlight and Hearing water splashing on the rock, Sit up. None can purchase pleasure such as this: Spangled across the step-moss, a million coins! -- Ryushu Shutaku If every person really understands that "we will all die someday..." then why do we worry about events and objects? We are like tourists; we come and go on this planet earth. Make the best of your visit, and when you have to go make sure you have with you something that cannot die. Meditation can help you to find it. -- Shantinath Train yourself in doing good that lasts and brings happiness. Cultivate generosity, the life of peace, and a mind of boundless love. -- Ittivuttuka The universe is uncaused, like a net of jewels in which each is only the reflection of all the others in a fantastic interrelated harmony without end. -- Ramesh Balsekar Autumn gales drive the shimmering silver saucer of the moon; its reflection falls on the clear river, cold as a great length of glassy silk. Even if red flowers of waterwort were added to these banks, for the person of the Way there is only perception of the one-color realm. -- Sesson Yubai Above all don’t wish to become a future buddha; your only concern should be, as thought follows thought, to avoid clinging to any of them. -- Dogen Rare in the world is one who no longer even cares for experience. In him the true understanding has already dawned. He who has gone beyond mentation has no need for sitting in meditation. His mind is already free from fluctuation. -- Ramesh Balsekar Remember one thing. If you want peace of mind then give up faultfinding. If you would search for fault at all, find out your own faults and shotcomings. Learn to accept everyone as your own. No one is alien to you, whole world is yours. -- Sri Sarada Devi Better it is to live one day wise and meditative than to live a hundred years foolish and uncontrolled. -- The Dhammapada 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 She is like white clouds rising from the mountains - No-mind from the start, she is like the roosting bird who feels no longing for the woods of home. But because this person of the Way happens to enjoy the mountains and streams she wanders among them unconcerned about how deep into the lakeside mountain peaks she goes. She has gone to the empty cliffs to pay respect to the hundred thousand forms of the Buddha. -- Su Dongpo If you are in a hurry, if you are in haste, you will never know the taste of meditation. The taste of meditation needs great patience, INFINITE patience. Meditation is simple, but you have become so complex that to relax it will take time. It is not the meditation that is taking time - let me remind you again - it is your complex mind. It has to be brought down to a rest, to a relaxed state. THAT takes time. -- Osho 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 By doing evil, one defiles oneself; by avoiding evil, one purifies oneself. Purity and impurity depend upon oneself: no one can purify another. -- Dhammapada You ask, how can we know the Infinite? I answer, not by reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty superior to reason, by entering into a state in which you are your finite self no longer - in which the divine essence is communicated to you. This is ecstasy. It is the liberation of your mind from its finite consciousness. -- Plotinus Do not give way to heedlessness. Do not indulge in sensual pleasures. Only the heedful and meditative attain great happiness. -- Dhammapada Far, faraway, steep mountain paths, Treacherous and narrow, ten thousand feet up; Over boulders and bridges, lichens of green, White clouds are often seen soaring, A cascade suspends in mid-air like a bolt of silk; The moon’s reflection falls on a deep pool, glittering. I shall climb up the magnificent mountain peak, To await the arrival of a solitary crane. -- Shide 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 As you begin to arrive with each step, you become more solid. As you become more solid, you become more free. Solidity and freedom are two aspects of *nirvana*, the state of liberation from craving, fear, and anxiety. The practice should be pleasant. When you feel happy, your solidity and your freedom will grow, and you will know you are on the path of right practice. You don't need a teacher to tell you if you are enjoying the practice. If you enjoy it, you will feel solid and free. Then you can practice "Solid/Free," as you walk. -- Thich Nhat Hanh See your defilements, know them like you know a cobra's poison. You won't grab the cobra because you know it can kill you. See the harm in things harmful and the use in things useful. -- Ajahn Chah Truth cannot be expressed. The most one can do is to hint at it, to give an impetus to the thought. Everyone must find truth for himself, by himself. -- P.D. Ouspensky There is only one real magic, the magic of Dhamma. Any other magic is like the illusion of a card trick. It distracts us from the real game: our relation to human life, to birth, to death and to freedom. -- Ajahn Chah With his wealth collected justly, won through his own efforts, he shares both food and drink with beings who are in need. -- Itivuttaka Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache. You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you. -- Ajahn Chah The past is the background against which life goes on from moment to moment, the future is yet to be. Only the present moment exists, and the responsibility of using the present moment for good or ill lies with each individual. -- Sayadaw Ashin Thittila If mettaa can merely be evoked and sustained in the heart, it is not yet powerful. Only if it follows in speech and action can the power of mettaa be said to be strong. If one cultivates mettaa in thought, word and deed for another, then mutual mettaa will blossom. As the Myanmar saying goes: "One's mettaa for another's." -- Sayadaw U Pandita A thousand clouds among a myriad streams And in their midst a person at ease. By day he wanders through the dark green hills, At night goes home to sleep beneath the cliffs. Swiftly the changing seasons pass him by, Tranquil, undefiled, no earthly ties. Such pleasures! And on what do they rely? On a quiet calm, like autumn river water. -- Hanshan A yogi is one who has the effort - a. initially made to develop the mind and insight, b. boosted by a step until boredom is overcome, c. increased step by step until the Goal, *Nibbaana*, is reached. -- Sayadaw U Pandita The physical sources of happiness, such as wealth, name, fame, social position and popularity, are merely temporary sources of happiness; whereas happiness attained through the culture of the mind is real and enduring. -- Sayadaw Ashin Thittila 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 Monkey cries tell you night is fading; blossoms that open show you the flowing years. With metal staff you quietly come and go, mindless -- for everywhere is Zen. -- Liu Changqing We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. Speak or act with pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable. -- Buddha Buddha is concealed within the sentient beings. If for one instant of thought we become impartial, then sentient beings are themselves Buddha. In our mind itself a buddha exists, our own Buddha is the true Buddha. If we do not have in ourselves the Buddha mind, then where are we to seek Buddha? -- Huineng Above, across or back again, wherever he goes in the world let him carefully scrutinise the rise and fall of compounded things. -- Itivuttaka This is the real secret: always be a beginner. Then we can really learn something. In the beginner's mind there is no thought, "I have attained something." -- Shunryu Suzuki Above all don’t wish to become a future buddha; your only concern should be, as thought follows thought, to avoid clinging to any of them. -- Dogen All tremble at punishment. Life is dear to all. Put yourself in the place of others; kill none nor have another killed. -- Dhammapada Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it. -- Osho Even when obstacles crowd in, the path to Nibbana can be won by those who establish mindfulness and bring to perfection equipoise. -- Samyutta Nikaya
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