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Meditation Seed Thoughts If you really want True Teaching you better Listen well Such as simply hearing the words is your ticket to Hell, The Kali Yuga Cycle Train is bearing down on you fast So Open to Truth/Reality for the opportunity won't last. -- Yogajyotii When the mind is Transparent and pure As if reflected on the Mirror-like surface of the water, There is nothing in the World that you would dislike. When it is serene As the light breeze In the sunshine, there will be No one whom you Would like to forget. -- Pa-ta Shan-jen Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others -- he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life. -- Dhammapada Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others. -- Buddha Service is not a task and must be undertaken with joy For we have been likewise Served in spite that we toy, As we have been Taught we too must Teach the Way More in what we do IN/AS Service than what we say. -- Yogajyotii Raging fire below, the forest burns. All is in ruin as the tiny sparrow's beak Drops each pearl of compassion On the flaming hell beneath. The purest drop of water falls, Returning and returning again, Its heart tired but steady, Buoyed by compassion grander Than its tiny frame. -- Ji Aoi Isshi The doer of good rejoices here and hereafter; he rejoices in both the worlds. He rejoices and exults, recollecting his own pure deeds -- Dhammapada Heartmind The bodhisattva's heart Is like the billowing Clouds which lace the sky. Abiding nowhere, yet touching Each heartmind silently; Endlessly broadening.... No one is forgotten. The soft zephyr blows Kindness in each door But who can hear its song? -- Ji Aoi Isshi A disciple should avoid taking anything from anywhere knowing it (to belong to another). He should not steal nor incite another to steal. He should completely avoid theft. -- Sutta Nipata A thousand scriptures are nothing compared to a single step taken on one's own. Do not worry that the road is long, for the longest distance is gained only step by step. -- Tishan Display your wares offering them Freely so as to Serve Yet limit their Giving to those who show they Deserve, Wisdom is Given to those who show they can Receive For there are many who are Gamesters just to Deceive. -- Yogajyotii He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world. -- Sutta Nipata When meditation is completely fulfilled, one becomes so contented that he forgets to meditate - because meditation is an effort, a discontent. If one day you forget to meditate and you do not feel any addiction, you do not feel any gap, you are as filled as ever, then know it is a good sign. -- Osho Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit. -- Thich Nhat Hanh Clarity and Tears - Withered vine, Rotten tree, Dark crow, Little bridge, Running stream, Homestead, Worn-out road, Western wind, Lean horse, The sun is setting in the west; The broken-hearted man Is at the end of the earth. -- Ma Chih-yuan The evil-doer grieves here and hereafter; he grieves in both the worlds. He laments and is afflicted, recollecting his own impure deeds. -- Dhammapada Wherever there is a heaven there will be a hell. Wherever there is God there will be a Devil. Wherever there is emptiness - you are beyond. -- Thyoar When everyone's True Nature communicates without Two As the True Nature AS me Embraces True Nature AS you, AS True Nature of One then personality and identity wane For in Awakening all conditioned Separation is quite in vain. -- Yogajyotii What does the word "Master" mean? "Master" means you already know how to master yourself, and you are not torn apart by different obstacles in life. -- Ching Hai When things become manifest To the ardent meditating brahmin, All his doubts then vanish since he understands Each thing along with its cause. -- Udana The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river. -- J. Krishnamurti Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind. -- Dhammapada Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow. Anger is like a chariot Careening wildly. One who curbs anger Is the true charioteer. Others merely hold the reins. With gentleness Overcome anger. With generosity Overcome meanness. With truth overcome delusion. -- The Dharmapada Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential. -- Dhammapada The waves of terror never reach the shore of Freedom, where the tide of Love is ever Strong -- Steinar Almelid The moment broken With shattered lives; Dreams fall into A vortex of fire. The mind, unstainable, Is clothed in tears. The lotus blooms Through the rubble, Its purity hidden From plain view. Inwardly glowing, yet Outwardly covered in ash. All the many are just but One yet only seemingly connected For One IS the multiplicity as the Identification is so erected, There is much more to the Living Whole than just it's Parts Yet can only be Recognized when your Awakening starts. -- Yogajyotii He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving. -- Khalil Gibran This one word *awareness* is the source of all wonders. Because of delusion concerning this awareness, the marks of self arise. When it is assumed that there is *I* or *mine*, liking and disliking automatically appear. -- Chinul Beware of the anger Of the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger Of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger Of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth. The wise have mastered Body, word, and mind. They are the true masters. -- The Dharmapada Outside the temple, Already I know how fine The mountain must be; Clear cool shade detains me. I sit by the circling balustrade. On newly opened leaves I see Insect inscriptions, Wonder if they’re From Han-shan’s brush, The ink not yet dried. -- Feng of Pei-shan How marvelous, how wonderful! All sentient beings Are perfect without flaw. It is only due to Delusive attachments That the truth cannot be seen. -- Buddha As the ‘Ocean of Knowing-mind’ Dries up, pearls shine Forth by themselves; Space smashed to dust, A moon hangs independent. I threw my net through Heaven, Caught the dragon and the phoenix; Alone I walk through the cosmos, Connecting the past and its people. -- The Monk Hsu Yun The moon, emerging, Floats where clouds are not; Wind rises, Strikes the purity of night, Stars compete In trembling flickers The Milky Way is empty, Clear, and bright. Old trees’ sparse shadows Intersperse. Scared birds cut off their Noises lingering. This autumn I am rapt In what’s already awry, While crickets campaign Again at night. -- Liu Ch’ang If we happen to receive the instructions of a good friend and suddenly awaken to this void and calm awareness, the calm awareness becomes free of thought and formless. Who then would assume that there is *self* or *person*? -- Chinul Drawn some sixty years ago By karma I turned life upside down And climbed straight on To lofty summits. Between my eyes A hanging sword, The Triple World is pure. Empty-handed, I hold a hoe, Clearing a galaxy. -- The Monk Hsu Yun If one, longing for sensual pleasure, achieves h, 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 Emptiness is most Filling as in Silence is where All is Heard Void is also Full for that is where Lives the Perfected Word, BE a Stillness and Listen/Look and Learn as Apperception For IN/AS your Awakening is where lies a True Perfection. -- Yogajyotii One should first establish oneself in what is proper and only then try to instruct others. Doing this, the wise one will not be criticized. -- Dhammapada 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 For one who mindfully develops Boundless loving-kindness Seeing the destruction of clinging, The fetters are worn away. -- Itivuttaka The worse of the two is he who, when abused, retaliates. One who does not retaliate wins a battle hard to win. -- Samyutta Nikaya Above, across or back again, wherever he goes in the world let him carefully scrutinise the rise and fall of compounded things. - Itivuttaka A person with good eyes, encountering a treacherous, uneven place, would try hard to avoid it. A wise person, in the world of life, should avoid evil deeds. -- Udana With all his attachments cut, with the heart's pining subdued, calm and serene and happy is he, for he has attained peace of mind. -- Samyutta Nikaya Good is restraint in the body; good is restraint in speech; good is restraint in thought. Restraint everywhere is good. The monk restrained in every way is freed from all suffering. -- Dhammapada One who is a master of knowledge, Who has lived the holy life, Is called one gone to the world's end, One who has reached the further shore. -- Itivuttaka Let go of the past, let go of the future, let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence. With mind wholly liberated, you shall come no more to birth and death. -- Dhammapada Above, across or back again, wherever he goes in the world let him carefully scrutinise the rise and fall of compounded things. -- Itivuttaka All things are just what they are and have no distinction of good and bad. However, because of the act of naming, a peacock, for example, is regarded as beautiful and a crow regarded as ugly. Is the crow really ugly? -- F. Wenyi One who makes distinctions of respect and disdain, high and low status, the big and the small will be unable to perceive the truth underlying all things. -- Shanhui The unseen force that created the universe is a most invaluable thing. Its progress lies in simple everyday happenings. Any method or technique that is too complex will only give rise to complications. -- Fayan It makes not the slightest difference whether one lives long or short, so long as one understands the ground of being. That kind of life is a life of worth. -- Mazu When a fish swims, the water becomes muddied; when a bird flies, its feathers fall. Just as an object is reflected in a polished mirror, nothing can escape the law of cause and effect. -- Chia-shan Yuan-wu The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear. -- G. Gurdjieff Absorbed totally, absorbed in whatsoever you are doing, this is what meditation is. Not that you sit for a special period and repeat a mantra, not that you go to the church or to the temple or to the mosque, but to be in life - to go on doing trivial things, but with such absorption that the profundity is revealed in every action. -- Saraha Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know. -- Sogyal Rinpoche Until we understand how to transcend the mind, this separative thinking, this process of giving emphasis to the "me" and the "mine" whether in the collective form or in individual form, we shall not have peace. -- J. Krishnamurti Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others. -- Buddha May all creatures, all living things, all beings one and all, experience good fortune only. May they not fall into harm. -- Anguttara Nikaya Let no one deceive another or despise anyone anywhere, or through anger or irritation wish for another to suffer. -- Sutta Nipata Awakening is in BEing What-IS AS it IS not identification With this or that which is only a *believed* rationalization, Awakening IS Directly Experiencing that Present Infinity And thus so BEing IN/AS the ever anew Eternal Ecstasy. -- Yogajyotii They do not lament over the past, they yearn not for what is to come, they maintain themselves in the present, thus their complexion is serene --Samyutta Nikaya Better it is to live one day virtuous and meditative than to live a hundred years immoral and uncontrolled. -- Dhammapada Fir, bamboo, and pure shadow merge; I move unnoticed where my thoughts incline. Chill springs up before the rain. Silence ends; a monk suddenly returns. Bug tracks bore into obscure holes; moss roots join broken ridgepoles. My reflections turn to a hidden place, deep, then down from the top of the peak, step by step. -- The Monk Pao Tan One is one's own protector, one is one's own refuge. Therefore, one should control oneself, even as a trader controls a noble steed. -- Dhammapada The Way isn't something that can be put into words. You have to practice before you can understand. You can't force things, including practice. Understanding is something that happens naturally. It's different for everyone. The main thing is to reduce your desires and quiet your mind. -- Master Hsueh The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem. -- Lao-Tzu Crystal clear, Sharp and bright, The sacred sword Allows no opening For evil to roost. Foster and polish The warrior spirit While serving in the world; Illuminate the Path According to your inner light. - Morihei Ueshiba What do you Fear it's so bad that you refuse to Wake-Up For not letting it go you can't Drink from Awakening's Cup, An Infinite Present Moment from Moment to Moment anew IS your Salvation though indeed only Enjoyed by the few. -- Yogajyotii The wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. It is because of the delusion under which our mind works that we fail to realize it ourselves, and we seek the advice and the guidance of enlightened ones. -- Hui-neng Are you concerned with enlightenment, which implies a static attainment, or rather enlightening, an unending process of continual opening? Are you concerned with answers or rather with boundless questions? For the answer never fails to kill enlightening the mind then reverts to the static knowing, soon becomes caught again in the web of associations and reduces the entirety of the world to the mundane. -- Ji Aoi Isshi The body knows pleasure, the mind knows happiness, the heart knows joy, the fourth - the ultimate awareness that makes one awakened - knows bliss. Bliss is the goal of being a seeker, and awareness is the path towards it. -- Osho How amazing it is That all people Have this but cannot polish It into bright clarity. In darkness unawakened, They make foolishness Cover their wisdom. -- Hongzhi Zhengjue 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 In the early days many sages stressed the follies and dangers of impurity. When delusion, perverted views, and bad thinking habits are eliminated, the mind is as clear and tranquil as the autumn stream. It is pure and quiescent, placid and free from attachment. -- Master Kuei-shan Ling-yu By doing evil, one defiles oneself; by avoiding evil, one purifies oneself. Purity and impurity depend upon oneself: no one can purify another. -- Dhammapada This is not a philosophy or an idea or a conceptualization Or even any image or ideology or belief nor rationalization, But rather a state of BEing What-IS Truth/Reality AS it IS At the very instant Moment it IS not to be for a future quiz. -- Yogajyotii If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. People capable of true vision, know that the mind is empty. -- Bodhidharma Wisdom is not in words. Wisdom is meaning within words. -- Khalil Gibran At night deep in the mountains, I sit in meditation The affairs of men Never reach here; Everything is quiet and empty All the incense Has been swallowed up By the endless night. My robe has become A garment of dew. Unable to sleep I walk out into the woods- Suddenly, Above the highest peak, The full moon appears. -- Ryokan Taigu 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 Beneath the mountain A stream flows On and on without end. If one’s Zen mind is like this Seeing into one’s nature Cannot be far off. -- Hakuin With his wealth collected justly, won through his own efforts, he shares both food and drink with beings who are in need. -- Itivuttaka Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu instead of enjoying the banquet. We always ask the same questions since time immemerable Have always asked the same questions seem inseparable, And we have always asked them of others yet the only one We can Truly Know is ourself perhaps our answers are none. -- Yogajyotii This world Is but A fleeting dream So why be alarmed At its evanescence? -- Ikkyu 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 Above, across or back again, wherever he goes in the world let him carefully scrutinise the rise and fall of compounded things. -- Itivuttaka His mind is free from all thoughts. His demeanor is still and silent. His forehead beams with simplicity. He is cold as autumn, And warm as spring, For his joy and anger Occur as naturally As the four seasons. -- Chuang Tzu All tremble at punishment. Life is dear to all. Put yourself in the place of others; kill none nor have another killed. -- Dhammapada An instant realization Sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends The endless moment He realizes the person Who is seeing it. It does not really matter *who* is Enlightened but ourself only BE Stillness simply BE no one can do it for us yet not lonely, All of Life is Divine give it respect and maintain your Humility So just BE that Life in all it's Wonder and Glory and Dignity. -- Yogajyotii The non-action of the wise person Is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet Because she is not moved, Not because she wills to be quiet. Her quietness is the mirror Of heaven and earth The glass of everything. Emptiness, stillness, tranquility, Traceless, Silence, non-action: This is the level of Heaven and earth. This is the perfect Tao. -- Chuang Tzu Even when obstacles crowd in, the path to Nibbana can be won by those who establish mindfulness and bring to perfection equipoise. -- Samyutta Nikaya The sound of water says what I think. -- Chuang Tzu 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 "I am empty of everything and there is nothing left in my mind," said the monk to Joshu. "What do you say to that?" Joshu said, "Cast that away." But the monk persisted. "I have told you, there is nothing left in me. I am completely empty. What can I cast away?" "In that case," replied Joshu, "keep on carrying it." -- Joshu 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 Be ever persistently persevering in your actions Remember Be Compassionate and Light the Way as a Burning Ember, But before you can set foot on the Path you must be Pure To be Pure let go of all conditionings and Mindfully Endure. -- Yogajyotii Ever desireless, One can see the mystery. Ever desiring, Once can see the manifestations These two spring From the same source But differ in name. -- Lao Tzu The worse of the two is he who, when abused, retaliates. One who does not retaliate wins a battle hard to win. -- Samyutta Nikaya Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old, instead, seek what they sought. -- Basho If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. -- St.John of the Cross When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much. -- Fen-Yang The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. -- Empedocles Knock and he will open the door. Vanish, and he will make you shine like the sun. Fall and he will raise you to the heavens. Become nothing and he will turn you into everything. If you die before you die, then when you die, you will not die. -- Zen Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool. -- Plato It is only a seeming Multiplicity in the various forms For there can't be Two though contains all norms, The very Moment IS also yesterday and tomorrow Isn't to have or give or take or find even to borrow. -- Yogajyotii In the World Barefoot and naked of breast, I mingle with the people Of the world. My clothes are ragged And dust laden, And I am ever blissful. I use no magic to extend my life; Now, before me, The dead trees become alive. -- Kakuan 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 Reaching the Source Too many steps have been Taken returning to the root And the source. Better to have been blind And deaf from the beginning! Dwelling in one’s true abode, Unconcerned with that without- The river flows tranquilly On and the flowers are red. -- Kakuan The past should not be followed after and the future not desired; what is past is dead and gone and the future is yet to come. -- Majjhima Nikaya You can't hold a Dream or Memory why do you try Like air in your hand full but always empty and dry, So Awakening is a state of BEing without the herd Just as the Sound of Silence none audibly Heard. -- Yogajyotii Both Bull and Self Transcended Whip, rope, person, and bull All merge in No-Thing. This heaven is so vast No message can stain it. How may a snowflake Exist in a raging fire? Here are the footprints Of the patriarchs. -- Kakuan Life is swept along, next-to-nothing its span. For one swept to old age no shelters exist. Perceiving this danger in death, one should drop the world's bait and look for peace. -- Samyutta Nikaya The Bull Transcended Astride the bull, I reach home. I am serene. The bull too can rest. The dawn has come. In blissful repose, Within my thatched dwelling I have abandoned The whip and rope. -- Kakuan 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 Communication by silence is deeper than words can reach. Whatever else may come our way in this surprising life, silence will always unite us. -- David Steindl-Rast When conditioned phenomenality is our one reality Though mostly a undefinable this can't actually be, It can only exist in our mind through our projections Just a prototype and must change with redirections. -- Yogajyotii
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