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Meditation Seed Thoughts It is when we let the conditioned modus operandi go That there is not *you* and not *I* no more to be so, Only that ever anew Eternal Infinite Moment is Free So "Who am I ?" or "Who are You ?" or "Are We ?" -- Yogajyotii You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. -- Oliver Goldsmith When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. -- Tao Te Ching Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind. -- Buddha Be still like a mountain and flow like a river. -- Lao-Tze All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. -- Ellen Glasgow 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 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 If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. -- Lao Tse Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. The Dance that IS Consciousness Multiple seemed Is being Mindful of conditioned notions we Dreamed, Let go of those Veils to your Conscious Recognition Of Consciousness we ARE is Awakening's Ignition. -- Yogajyotii A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, or what he can do, nothing else. -- Mahatma Gandhi When Bodhidharma came to China, he saw that most Chinese learners did not grasp the truth of Buddhism. They merely sought it through interpretation of texts and thought of the changing phenomena all around them as real action. Bodhidharma wished to make these eager learners see that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon itself. The real truth is nothing but one’s own mind. Thus, he maintained that the real teaching must be transmitted directly from one mind to another, without the use of words. -- Kuei-feng Tsung-mi The worse of the two is he who, when abused, retaliates. One who does not retaliate wins a battle hard to win. -- Samyutta Nikaya Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. -- The Dhammapada A bird in a secluded grove sings like a flute. Willows sway gracefully with their golden threads. The mountain valley grows quieter as the clouds return. A breeze brings along the fragrance of the apricot flowers. Sitting here a whole day in peace, till my mind is cleared of all cares, I would tell you more, but words fail. If you come to this grove, you will see yourself. -- Fa-yen 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 There is a Slumbering Consciousness pounding feet With a hammer and there is an Awakening we Meet, Recognition that Consciousness IS What All IS True For Sleeping is active and Awakening is Stillness too. -- Yogajyotii Constantly be aware, Without stopping. When the aware mind is present, It senses the formlessness of things. Constantly see your body as empty And quiet, inside and outside Communing in sameness. Plunge the body into the realm Of reality, where there has Never been any obstruction. -- Tao-hsin 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 Every time and every place is uniquely different. There is no need to compare it with any other time and place. Just carefully taste the present - that is enough! -- Zen Know the essence of mind. Its intrinsic essence is pure clarity. It is essentially the same as a buddha. Know the functions of the mind. Its functions produce the Treasure of teachings. When its activity is silent, Myriad illusions become suchness. -- Tao-hsin For one who mindfully develops Boundless loving-kindness Seeing the destruction of clinging, The fetters are worn away. -- Itivuttaka Man's life has two layers to it: one is that of the essential, and another is that of the accidental. The essential is never born, never dies. The accidental is born, lives and dies. The essential is eternal, timeless; the accidental is just accidental. We become too much attached to the accidental and we tend to forget the essential. -- Osho Sleeping we run around chasing Consciousness Far Awakening we See Consciousness is what we ARE, When there is no mirror surely there is no reflection As when there is no reflection there is no redirection. -- Yogajyotii Luminous is this mind, Brightly shining, but it is Colored by the attachments That visit it. This unlearned people do not Really understand, And so do not cultivate the Mind. Luminous is this mind, Brightly shining, And it is free of the Attachments that visit it. This the noble follower Of the way really understands; So for them there is Cultivation of the mind. -- Anguttara Nikaya 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 We worry because we project ourselves into the future. We worry because we do not trust. We are at ease when we live in the here and now. We are at ease when we trust. -- Tishan One continuous clear void, the night precisely midway; the moon cool, spews frost. When light and dark are merged without division, who distinguishes relative and absolute herein? Thus it is said, "Although the absolute is absolute, it is relative as well, although the relative is relative, it is complete as well." At this precise moment, how do you discern? How clear - twin shining eyes before any impulse! How stately - the eternal body outside forms. -- Hung-chih 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 Who would have expected that Self nature is fundamentally Complete in itself? Who would have expected that Self nature is fundamentally Immutable? Who would have expected that Self nature can create all things? -- Altar Sutra 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 Let go of the *we* and *you* and *I* and BE AS All For indeed the *we* and *you* and *I* are our Fall, Doomed yet they are kept so alive via conditioning There sure will very well come a Day Of Reckoning. -- Yogajyotii In horror of death, I took to the mountains - Again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, Capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done. -- Milarepa All day long people Repeat the word prajna aloud, But do not know their Self-natured prajna. They are like one who Cannot satisfy their hunger By only talking about eating. Just talking of voidness Will not enable one to Perceive one’s nature for Myriads of eons, and there Will be no advantage in the end. -- Altar Sutra 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 A solitary winter lantern Casts a feeble shadow Wind blows through My flimsy hut and Covers me with snow I remember sitting Cross legged on Wutai; A makeshift door amid The thousand year old ice. -- Han-shan Te-ch’ing 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 The fundamental teaching of Buddhism is nothing but the doctrine of One Mind. This Mind is originally perfect and vastly illuminating. It is clear and pure, containing nothing, not even a fine dust. There is neither delusion nor enlightenment, neither birth nor death, neither saints nor sinners. Sentient beings and Buddhas are of the same fundamental nature. There are no two natures to distinguish them. This is why Bodhidharma came from the west to teach the Ch’an method of "direct pointing" to the original true Mind. -- Han-Shan Te-Ch’ing 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 You do not need a Handle or a Crutch just Walk on As daughter is against mother as father against son, Awakening is not about being just like all the Same Duality shows the difference but it is the old Game. -- Yogajyotii The realm of buddhahood is not some external world where there is a formal "Buddha." It’s the realm of the wisdom of a self awakened sage. - - Ta Hui Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again. -- Dhammapada Slay anger and you will be happy, slay anger and you will not sorrow. For the slaying of anger in all its forms with its poisoned root and sweet sting - that is the slaying the nobles praise; with anger slain one weeps no more. -- 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 Leave the past behind; leave the future behind; leave the present behind. You are then ready to go to the other shore. Never more shall you return to a life that ends in death. -- Buddha Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. -- Lactantius The sun and the moon are not mirrored in cloudy water. Thus the almighty cannot be mirrored in a heart that is obsessed by the idea of me and mine. -- Ramakrishna So can you See the sun before the break of day Or can you See the fall as spring makes it's way, Can you Hear the bird sing with just egg in hand Or Understand the cosmos in a little grain of sand. -- Yogajyotii 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 Or, hearing water Plashing on the rock, Sit up: none can Purchase pleasure such as this: Spangled across the step-moss, a million coins! -- Shutaku Good is virtue until life's end, good is faith that is steadfast, good is the acquisition of wisdom, and good is the avoidance of evil. -- Dhammapada Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence; meditation is a delight in your own being. -- Osho Followers of the Way, the one who at this moment stands alone, clearly and lively right before your eyes and is listening, this one is nowhere obstructed. Unhindered this one penetrates everywhere and moves freely; entering all kinds of situations, is never affected by them. -- Rinzai Good are friends when need arises; good is contentment with just what one has; good is merit when life is at an end, and good is the abandoning of all suffering. -- Dhammapada We must be the change we wish to see in the world -- Mahatma Gandhi Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature -- Bhagavad Gita Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Mohandas Gandhi It is in Open Honest Self-Observation you can See And letting go your Defilements you can surely BE, Words can not Save you nor can your argument Because your journey is over before Contentment. -- Yogajyotii Here in Hsueh-t’ou Mountain a rapid waterfall dashes down thousands of feet. Here nothing stays, not even the tiniest chestnut. An awesome cliff rises up thousands of feet with no space for you to stand. My friends, may I ask: Where do you proceed? -- Yung-ming Throroughly understanding the Dhamma and freed from longing through insight, the wise one rid of all desire is calm as a pool unstirred by water. -- Itivuttaka Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts! Draw yourself out of this bog of evil, even as an elephant draws himself out of the mud. -- Dhammapada People in the world cannot identify their own mind. They believe that what they see, or hear, or feel, or know, is mind. They are blocked by the visual, the auditory, the tactile, and the mental, so they cannot see the brilliant spirit of their Original Mind. -- Huang-po The person resolute in the Way must from the beginning never lose sight of it, whether in a place of calm or in a place of strife. Beware of clinging to quiet places and shunning those where there is disturbance. -- Daikaku In seeking the essence of the Way, one should quiet the mind and penetrate to the depths. Silently wander within and clearly see the origin of all things, obscured by nothing. The mind is boundless and formless, just as the pure water contains the essence of autumn. It is glistening white and lustrously bright in the same way that moonlight envelops the entire night. -- Hung-chih Any sensual bliss in the world, any heavenly bliss, isn't worth one sixteenth-sixteenth of the bliss of the ending of craving. -- Udana Every man creates a certain psychological security, unaware of the fact that his security is his prison... Your prison cell becomes smaller; you start living so much protected that life itself becomes impossible. Life is possible only in insecurity. -- Osho The Trickster makes you think you have a Chance But Truth be known you don't know how to Dance, You pantomime all the steps but never know Why But if it is relief from your Suffering why do you Cry. -- Yogajyotii Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu instead of enjoying the banquet. Wisdom is not in words. Wisdom is meaning within words. -- Khalil Gibran The greatest prayer is patience. -- The Buddha The highest wisdom is kindness. -- Talmud When the mind is pure, joy follows, like a shadow that never leaves. -- The Buddha The realm of buddhahood is not some external world where there is a formal "Buddha": It’s the realm of the wisdom of a self awakened sage. -- Ta Hui You must pay Attention to what really matters most And stop all that Chasing of the ever Illusive Ghost, Just Openly Honestly Observer yourself every way About every conditioning you think and do and say. -- Yogajyotii Buddha said, if you want to know the realm of buddhahood, you must make your mind as clear as empty space and leave false thinking and all grasping far behind, causing your mind to be unobstructed wherever it may turn. -- Ta Hui Where there is true oneness, there is no distinction of self and other. Where there is real wisdom, there is no need to scheme and plan. -- Zhuang Zi With good will for the entire cosmos, live with a limitless heart. Above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate. -- Sutta Nipata It is pitiful that we are living in a treasure mountain but cannot see it. If we develop an enlightenment seeking mind, everything becomes the practice of enlightenment, even if we are in the midst of the various worlds of samsara. -- Dogen If a man points at the moon, an idiot will look at the finger. -- Sufi wisdom You know what, meditation is when your Self is purified of all hocus-pocus about mind, soul, spirit, and other intellectual jargon. -- Alan Watts What wanted may not be needed so BE Receptive Because you are not Separate it is a Big Collective, Take off those Blinders of your wants and be Freed To Accept the very Eternal Infinite Truth you Need. -- Yogajyotii When the veil of judgment is dropped, when the blanket of fear is laid down, when the armor of the ego is shed, one's true nature comes forth and enlightenment follows. -- Beth Johnson Meditation is the simplest and quickest way to see yourself, to know yourself, to accept yourself and to love yourself. -- Tishan We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. -- Marcel Proust Who would have expected that Self-nature is fundamentally Pure and clean? Who would have expected that Self nature is fundamentally Beyond birth and death? -- Altar Sutra The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the skylife nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness that underlies the whole of life and death. -- Sogyal Rinpoche Think not lightly of evil, saying, "It will not come to me." Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil. -- Dhammapada Phenomenal love affair which is far from Real Love Because Love IS and is not in league with a self of, Self is aspect of conditioned notions and perception Can not Transcend as it is the self that is Deception. -- Yogajyotii Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -- American Indian Proverb Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly. -- Sogyal Rinpoche Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. -- Lin Yutang The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -- Henri L. Bergson Of all the vices, intellectual pride is the most treacherous and the most difficult to free oneself from, because it is not recognized as a vice. -- Swami Veda Bharati Outwardly go along With the flow, While inwardly keeping Your true nature. Then your eyes and ears Will not be dazzled, Your thoughts will not Be confused, While the spirit within you Will expand greatly to roam In the realm of absolute purity. -- Huai-nan-tzu Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, yet he indeed is the noblest victor who conquers himself. -- Dhammapada There is variation in everything. Therefore there is no 'fixed standard' in the world; it varies with a person's circumstances. -- Chizang Both Transcendence and self are just phenomenality So all of that must be let go of in order to BE Reality, For such complications only lead to further Suffering Why complicate which is simple as an Endless Ring. -- Yogajyotii Sages send their spirit To the storehouse of awareness And return to the beginning Of myriad things. They look at the formless, Listen to the soundless. In the midst of profound Darkness, They alone see light; In the midst of silent vastness, They alone have Illumination. -- Huai-nan-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 What sages learn Is to return their nature To the beginning And let their minds Travel freely in Openness. What developed people Learn is to link their nature To vast emptiness and Become aware of the Silent infinite. -- Huai-nan-tzu Calm is his thought, calm his speech, and calm his deed, who, truly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly tranquil and wise. -- Dhammapada If one does not think about right and wrong, then the mind is naturally at ease. If one has no thought of peace of mind, that is true peace. -- Chuang Tzu Form is Form and does Directly Experiences such Yet with conditionings you don't Experience much, You Identify with just yourself as everyday Norm But the True Nature is the Formless AS the Form. -- Yogajyotii If you can get through The world by developing Your nature and embracing Virtue to the end of your years, It can be said that you are able To embody the Tao. -- Huai-nan-tzu The good renounce (attachment for) everything. The virtuous do not prattle with a yearning for pleasures. The wise show no elation or depression when touched by happiness or sorrow. -- Dhammapada Human nature is developed By profound serenity and lightness; Virtue is developed By harmonious joy And open selflessness. When externals do not Confuse you inwardly, Your nature finds the condition That suits it; When your nature does not Disturb harmony, Virtue rests in its place. -- Huai-nan-tzu Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. -- Dhammapada I push for completion and clarity, yet I know letting go works better, but I have learned I can only let go when I am through pushing. -- Beth Johnson It is bred into your genes so you can not get away You have to Face yourself in the Mirror some day, No one can Save you because you are all Alone So just hang up your coat and get off the Phone. -- Yogajyotii Don’t be surprised, Don’t be startled; All things will arrange Themselves. Don’t cause a disturbance, Don’t exert pressure; All things will clarify Themselves. -- Huai-nan-tzu When the Buddha teaches others he does so out of compassion, because the Tathagata is wholly freed from both favour and aversion. -- Samyutta Nikaya Heaven and hell are not places one goes after death, but in the here and now! Good and evil are all in the thought, and the gates of heaven and hell will open to you at any time. -- Hakuin Those who attain the Tao Are masters of themselves. The universe is Dissolved for them. Throw them in the company Of the noisy and the dirty, And they will be like a lotus flower: Growing from muddy water, Touched by it, yet unstained. -- Lao Tzu Irrigators regulate the rivers; fletchers straighten the arrow shaft; carpenters shape the wood; the wise control themselves. -- Dhammapada 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 To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to purify one's mind-this is the teaching of the Buddhas. -- Dhammapada Magnanimous Mind Is like a mountain, Stable and impartial; Exemplifying the ocean, it Reflects the broadest perspective. -- Dogen One who, while himself seeking happiness, does not oppress with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will find happiness hereafter. -- Dhammapada You don't Open your Eyes Fear of what you'd See Thus distracted not Understanding what may BE, Your Attention is Fixed on the Glitter of that Gold Thinking it is permanent so used when you're Old. -- Yogajyotii 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, A hall of meditation. -- Reizan Whose mind is like rock, steady, unmoved, dispassionate for things that spark passion, unangered by things that spark anger: When one's mind is developed like this, from where can there come suffering & stress? -- Udana IV Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present. It is a pure response to the present it is not reaction. It acts not out of conclusions, it acts seeing the existential. -- Osho 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 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 not fight Hate with Hate nor Fire with Fire Any more than you can fight the Glitter with Desire, Just Embrace the Gold and Look beyond the Glitter For what you will See is that it is just another Critter. -- Yogajyotii Snow covers earth and sky Everything is new My body is concealed Inside a silver world Suddenly I enter A treasury of light A place forever free of Any trace of dust. -- Han-shan Te-ch’ing Should a person commit evil, let him not do it again and again. Let him not find pleasure therein, for painful is the accumulation of evil. -- Dhammapada Bone-chilling snow On a thousand peaks Wild raging wind from Ten thousand hollows When I first awaken, Deep beneath my blanket, I forget my body is In a silent void. -- Han-shan Te-ch’ing All things are at peace with their own roles in the universe, and they laugh at human beings. The suffering of humans comes from desiring what they do not have and not cherishing what is at hand. -- from the heart sutra Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live as hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. -- Dhammapada Beware of Tricksters bearing Gifts of the Enjoyment For what's exacted is your very BEing's Deployment, Give all your Visitors a Gift asking nothing in Return Emptying your Contents as Fires of Compassion Burn. -- Yogajyotii Nothing would be better Than to see you again; To sail in a little boat; To wait the plums that Bloom in snow and frost; Wander together Beside the shallows Of cold pools. -- Feng Tzu-Chen Whenever you have time during the day, close your eyes for a moment and just be with yourself in silence. Also whenever you can, simply watch your breath coming in and out. Do that every day even for few moments and in each moment you will have a taste of eternity. -- Tishan Better it is to live one day virtuous and meditative than to live a hundred years immoral and uncontrolled. -- Dhammapada Comprehending the fundamental, Embracing the spirit, Roam the root of heaven and earth, Wander beyond the dust and dirt, Travel to work with noninvolvement. Take care not to let mechanical Intelligence burden your mind; Watch what is not temporal And remain unmoved by things. -- Lao tzu I have love for the footless, for the bipeds too I have love; I have love for those with four feet, for the many-footed I have love. -- Anguttara Nikaya Sleeping all is a mystery yet Awakening IS Clarity Which leaves naught for mystery nor even Parity, It is those rose colored glasses that color or distort And thus all the conditioned notions we must Abort. -- Yogajyotii Those who are known As Real People Are united in essence With the Way, So they have endowments yet Appear to have none; They are full yet Appear to be empty. They govern the inside, Not the outside. Clear and pure, utterly plain, They do not contrive Artificialities but return To simplicity. -- Lao tzu At death a person abandons what he construes as mine. Realizing this, the wise shouldn't incline to be devoted to mine. -- Sutta Nipata Sages lean on a pillar That is never shaken, Travel a road that is Never blocked, are Endowed from a Resource that is never Exhausted, and learn From a teacher that Never dies. They are successful In whatever they undertake, And arrive wherever they go. Whatever they do, they Embrace destiny and go along Without confusion. -- Wen-tzu
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