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Meditation Seed Thoughts Yes, life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain - because everything is just open, it is just in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous! -- Osho All the holy ones have turned within and sought the self, and by this went beyond all doubt. To turn within means all the 24 hours and in every situation, to pierce one by one through the layers covering the self, deeper and deeper, to a place that cannot be described. It is when thinking comes to an end and making distinctions ceases, when wrong views and ideas disappear of themselves without having to be driven forth, when without being sought the true action and the true impulse appear of themselves. It is when one can know the truth of the heart. -- Daikaku The fever of passion exists not for him who has completed the journey, who is sorrowless and wholly set free, and has broken all ties. -- Dhammapada If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current -- how can he help others across? -- Sutta Nipata Earth, mountains, rivers Hidden in this nothingness. In the nothingness Earth, mountains, rivers revealed. Spring flowers, winter snows: There’s no being nor non-being, Nor denial itself. -- Saisho He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. -- Epictetus There is your answer there is no one to care or to shout There's no one identified with whatever it's to care about, When each multiplicity is more important than the Totality There is divisiveness and self-importance and not Unity. -- Yogajyotii Consciousness plus conceptualization = Thought Consciousness minus conceptualization = Brahman -- Vashista Few among men are those who cross to the farther shore. The rest, the bulk of men, only run up and down the hither bank. But those who act according to the perfectly taught Dhamma will cross the realm of Death, so difficult to cross. -- Dhammapada People who study Buddhism Should seek real, true perception And understanding for now. If you attain real, true perception And understanding, Birth and death don’t affect you; You are free to go or stay. You needn’t seek wonders, For wonders come of themselves. -- Linji Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. -- Dhammapada One should not pursue that which is not necessary in one's life, otherwise one will have to pay a price. One who knows how to preserve happiness will not burden himself unnecessarily. -- Yan Hui My teacher said to me, "The treasure house within you contains everything, and you are free to use it. You don’t need to seek outside." -- Dazhu Just as a mountain of rock, is unwavering, well-settled, so the monk whose delusion is ended, like a mountain, is undisturbed. -- Udana When Unity/Totality is more important than it's very parts Then there is only What-IS AS Unity/Totality that starts, How can it be otherwise an Illusion of your permanence Memories are but collected photographs not inheritance. -- 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 My hall of meditation -- Reizan Irrigators regulate the rivers; fletchers straighten the arrow shaft; carpenters shape the wood; the wise control themselves. -- Dhammapada Closed out the old year And held a dream of spring behind My shut eyes - til now This morning I opened them to see It’s really come into the world. -- Saigyo He who drinks deep the Dhamma lives happily with a tranquil mind. The wise man ever delights in the Dhamma made known by the Noble One (the Buddha). -- Dhammapada Awakening does not mean that this particular form you inhabit should or will be a saint, or a great artist, or king of the world. It means you can know without a doubt that who you are is not limited to form. Who you are is what the world appears in, what the cosmos appears in, what space itself appears in. -- Gangagji The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your Appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that Can be refined, a body that Can be trained in some manner, A suitable path to follow. You are here for no other purpose than To realize your inner divinity and Manifest your innate enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and Then apply the Art to all that you encounter. -- Morehei Ueshiba Through conviction one crosses over the flood. Through heedfulness, the sea. Through persistence one overcomes suffering & stress. Through discernment a person is purified. -- Sutta Nipata The ego can not really be controlled suppress it at best And by suppressing it will show up varied ways as Pest, What the foundation of the ego is conditioned contents When we let go the conditioned notions and remnants. -- Yogajyotii In Tibetan, the word for body is 'lu', which means 'something you leave behind,' like baggage. Each time we say 'lu', it reminds us that we are only travellers, taking temporary refuge in this life and this body. -- Sogyal Rinpoche Below the cliff, riding in a boat, I think of climbing up. The mountain temple is silent. It seems to have no monks. A falling star - a single dot - Plunges into the waves: It is a beam of lamplight From the Kannon Hall above. -- Ishikawa Jozan One is the quest for worldly gain, and quite another is the path to Nibbana. Clearly understanding this, let not the monk, the disciple of the Buddha, be carried away by worldly acclaim, but develop detachment instead. -- Dhammapada It is better to live a simple life, to observe silence and live effortlessly. -- Lao Zi As for me, I delight In the everyday Way, Among mist-wrapped vines And rocky caves. Here in the wilderness I am completely free, With my friends, The white clouds, Idling forever. There are roads, But they do not reach the world; Since I am mindless, Who can rouse my thoughts? On a bed of stone I sit, Alone in the night, While the round moon Climbs up Cold Mountain. -- Han shan Some call Ego Death which is not really doing anything For the ego's but eliminating the Cause of ego rendering, The whole package is the conditioned notions that Veil And that package is processed as it is required to assail. -- Yogajyotii That bhikkhu who has crossed the mire, Crushed the thorn of sensual desire, And reached the destruction of delusion Is not perturbed by pleasures and pains. -- Udana Only one who bursts with Enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with Excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner And you do not come back To me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson. -- Confucious Well done is that action of doing which one repents not later, and the fruit of which, one reaps with delight and happiness. -- Dhammapada How long it has been since The teaching of the pure Essence was swept away? Students are caught up With the written word And Buddhist priests are Stubbornly obsessed with doctrine. It’s a shame that for A thousand years No one has spoken Seriously of this essence. Better to follow the children And bounce a ball on these spring days. -- Ryokan Though all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavor of the soup. -- Dhammapada The ego does not cling to us we cling to the ego you see Cling to our dearly beloved conditioned notions with glee, Let us Point the finger at the Real culprit in this folly game It is those Causes of our Suffering that must be the same. -- Yogajyotii The greatest obstacle, in fact the final obstacle, is the belief that there is an obstacle. -- Papaji Empty and desireless, Cold and thin, simple and genuine, This is how to strike down And fold up the remaining habits Of many lives. When the stains from old habits Are exhausted, The original light appears, Blazing through your skull, Not admitting other matters. Vast and spacious, Like sky and water merging During autumn, Like snow and moon Having the same color, This field is without boundary, Beyond direction, Magnificently one entity Without edge or seam. -- Hongzhi By effort and heedfulness, discipline and self-mastery, let the wise one make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm. -- Dhammapada When you are not trying to become anybody else, when you accept yourself, then you simply relax into what you are,... and grace and harmony and splendor arise... the tremendous beauty of being yourself. -- Tishan A buddha is one who does not seek. In seeking this, you turn away from it. The principle is the principle of Nonseeking; when you seek it, You lose it. If you cling to nonstriving, This is the same as striving. Thus the Diamond Cutter Scripture Says, "Do not grasp truth, do not grasp untruth, and do not grasp that which is not untrue." It also says, "The truth that the buddhas find has no reality or unreality." -- Pai-chang Having entered a royal court or a company of people he should not speak lies. He should not speak lies (himself) nor incite others to do so. He should completely avoid falsehood. -- Sutta Nipata The Cause is not the ego but rather the conditioned stuff Notions are the Cause of the ego and therefore enough, Yes let go the conditioned notions in a New York minute And take your long drawn out Texas time to enjoy doing it. -- Yogajyotii Let there be space in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. -- Khalil Gibran Cease practice based On intellectual understanding, Pursuing words and Following after speech. Learn the backward Step that turns Your light inward To illuminate within. Body and mind of themselves Will drop away And your original face will be manifest. -- Dogen Conviction is a person's highest wealth. Dhamma, when well-practiced, brings bliss. Truth is the highest of savors. Living with discernment, one's life is called best. -- Sutta Nipata Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. -- Chinese Proverb To cling to oneself as Buddha, Oneself as Zen or the way, Making that an understanding, Is called clinging to the inward view. Attainment by causes and conditions, Practice and realization, , Is called the outward view. Master Pao-chih said, The inward view And the outward view are both mistaken. -- Pai-chang Watching is the key of meditation. Watch your mind. -- Osho It is not in our taking on still more conditionings of all sorts But rather our letting go of the conditioned bag that aborts, Wholeness or Totality is the foundation of the NonDuality All Is One because there can only be a Unity of Multiplicity. -- Yogajyotii Whoever takes a stick to beings desiring ease, when he himself is looking for ease, will meet with no ease after death. Whoever doesn't take a stick to beings desiring ease, when he himself is looking for ease, will meet with ease after death. -- Udana We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. -- Buddha If you think that you Have cut off illusory mind, Instead of simply clarifying How illusory mind melts, Illusory mind will come up again, As though you had cut off The stem of a blade of grass And left the root alive. -- Menzan Zuiho Ever grows the glory of him who is energetic, mindful and pure in conduct, discerning and self-controlled, righteous and heedful. -- Dhammapada You should each individually Clarify your own mind, Getting to the root Without pursuing the branches. Just get to the root, And the branches come of themselves. If you want to get to the root, Just get to know your mind. This mind is basically the root Of all mundane and supramundane Phenomena; as long as the mind Does not become obsessed with Good and bad, you will realize that All things are basically just so. -- Ta-mei The wise ones, ever meditative and steadfastly persevering, alone experience Nibbana, the incomparable freedom from bondage. -- Dhammapada What is the folly of volition other than the ability to choose Divine or otherwise is a contrivance of Duality so we lose, If All Is One who is to choose and what choices are there So who is there to create the Divine notion of what is fair. -- Yogajyotii To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between one's self and others. Then there is no trace of enlightenment, though enlightenment itself continues into one's daily life endlessly. -- Dogen The sounds of streams are Buddha’s speech. The colored mountains are Buddha’s pure body. Night brings eighty-fourthousand poems of Buddha. Listen, someday you may awaken. -- Su Shih Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead already. -- Dhammapada It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. -- A. de Saint Exupery The essence of mind Is formless; This itself is the subtle Body of reality. The essence of mind is Inherently empty; This itself is the infinite Body of space. -- Ta-chu Rouse yourself! Sit up! Resolutely train yourself to attain peace. Do not let the king of death, seeing you are careless, lead you astray and dominate you. -- Sutta Nipata There can only be One or Two the seeming mixture a joke If you are to be Wholeness or Oneness let go of the yoke, Using Duality to do so is a hypocrisy and so contradictory And will add to an already established delusional directory. -- 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 The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands-the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility. - -The Dalai Lama All that we are is the result of what we have thought. -- Buddha If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. -- Lao Tse Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Mohandas Gandhi Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes and the grass grows by itself. -- Zen Poem, Japanese There is no use in walking anywhere to preach if your walking isn't your preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi So high you cannot Climb or get close to it; Raindrops scatter in the flying wind. The gate is barred with green moss. Suddenly forgetting thought, Without attainment, Only then will you be sure The gate has been open all along. -- Zen Master T’aego Little though he recites the sacred texts, but puts the Teaching into practice, forsaking lust, hatred, and delusion, with true wisdom and emancipated mind, clinging to nothing of this or any other world -- he indeed partakes of the blessings of a holy life. -- Dhammapada 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 It is in one's Understanding and Awareness of What-IS so That must be inclusive of All that IS what we do not let go, Individual importance even if you say it is who is universal Connotes a possession/possessed by a Vicious Reversal. -- Yogajyotii It has been asked, "How should those who enter The path apply their minds?" All things are originally uncreated And presently undying. Just let your mind be free; You don’t have to restrain it. See directly and hear directly; Come directly and go directly. When you must go, then go; When you must stay, then stay. This is the true path. A scripture says, "Conditional existence is the site of enlightenment, insofar as you know it as it really is." -- Niu-t’ou Hui-chung Blissful is passionlessness in the world, The overcoming of sensual desires; But the abolition of the conceit I am -- That is truly the supreme bliss. -- Udana Keep to unity without shifting. With constant presence, Whether active or still, The student can see the Buddha nature clearly. -- Tao-hsin Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe. -- Buddha 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 It becomes an obsession of Pure Consciousness to BE Understood by the Wise Sages that Parrots do not See, It is True BEing one's True Nature there's nothing to do And no one to do it thus the Wise Sages are of the Few. -- Yogajyotii Be a person who dissolves into the present. Do not be a slave who carries the burden of the past and anticipates the future. Be like a boat that flows in time and space. -- Chung Po 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 The doer of good rejoices here and hereafter; he rejoices in both the worlds. He rejoices and exults, recollecting his own pure deeds -- Dhammapada Live as if you were to die tomorrow - Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Mahatma Gandhi 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 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 If you can be total in work, you can be total in no-work - just sitting silently, totally silent. You know how to be total. You can close your eyes and you can be totally in. You know the secret of being total. So to be total in work is helpful in meditation. -- Osho Sleeping there is much to do because many are to do it But most conditioned notions are sticky and will not sit, We are not Unfolding a state of BEing this way for sure Due to not letting go of conditioned notions they endure. -- Yogajyotii Heaven is calm and clear, Earth is stable and peaceful. Beings who lose these Qualities die, While those who Emulate them live. Calm spaciousness is the House of spiritual light; Open selflessness is the Abode of the Way. -- Huai-nan-tzu 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 Fantasized ideals often do not work in real life. When people cannot reach their preset goals, most of them can only blame themselves for not knowing the limits of their own capabilities. Know yourself and stay within your capabilities. -- Tsai Chih As the gate of heaven opens and closes, Can you be impassive? As understanding reaches everywhere, Can you be innocent? Producing and developing, Producing without possessing, Doing without presuming, Growing without domineering: This is called mysterious power. -- Tao-te Ching The evil-doer grieves here and hereafter; he grieves in both the worlds. He laments and is afflicted, recollecting his own impure deeds. -- Dhammapada To maintain a steady mind which is not excited by out-of-the-ordinary events is "the way". --Tao Indeed the phenomenal will always be the phenomenal Yet lighten our load of excess baggage we See Critical, Those conditioned billions have become What-ISNOT As What-IS is Pure unconditioned Consciousness allot. -- Yogajyotii Carrying vitality and consciousness, Embracing them as one, Can you keep them from parting? Concentrating energy, Making it supple, Can you be like an infant? Purifying hidden perception, Can you make it flawless? Loving the people, Governing the nation, Can you be uncontrived? -- Tao-te Ching 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 world presents itself according to the viewpoint of each person. Whatever kind of person one is, one will see that kind of world; whatever kind of mindset one has, one will derive that kind of conclusion. -- Fo Yin Into a person, Absolutely free From thoughts and emotions, Even the tiger finds no room To insert its fierce claws. -- Shinkage-ryu Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind. -- Dhammapada No change means death, for life is ever-changing. One should continue to evolve with the growing process. -- Heart Sutra Do not mistake the frog or the jump for the frog jumping Observe the jump of a legless frog without any Slumping, What-ISNOT is whatever is of the phenomenal dualistic That is the clutter that is in the way so Drop The Stick. -- Yogajyotii My heart is like the autumn moon: Perfectly bright in the deep green pool. Nothing can compare with it; Tell me, how it can be explained? -- Han-shan Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential. -- Dhammapada Since I came to this T’ien T’ai temple, How many winters and springs have passed? The mountains and the waters are unchanged; This man’s grown older. How many others will Watch those mountains stand? -- Shih-te 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 All that is is the result of what we have thought. -- Buddha Sitting silently, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. -- Basho Each multiple aspect of Consciousness seems to arise And have an Identity of it's own in conditioned eyes, All IS Consciousness though seeming each multiplicity Aspects of Consciousness are just Unified Complicity. -- Yogajyotii The question clear, The answer deep, Each particle, Each instant a reality. A bird call shrills Through the mountain dawn; Look where the old Master sits, a rock, in Zen. -- Sodo Better it is to live one day virtuous and meditative than to live a hundred years immoral and uncontrolled. -- Dhammapada When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready. -- Lao Tzu Madness, the way they gallop off to foreign shores! Turning to the One Mind, I find my Buddhahood, Above self and others, beyond coming and going. This will remain when all else is gone. -- Tanzan Let no one deceive another or despise anyone anywhere, or through anger or irritation wish for another to suffer. -- Sutta Nipata The ego is constantly in search of being a boss - whatsoever the cost, at any cost. You are losing your whole opportunity of life just to fulfill a shadowy, non-substantial notion - the notion of ego: "I am somebody." Nobody is nobody. We are all one; we are not separate. -- Osho The integrity of the Union/Whole is still Union/Whole It is our conditionings of separation that Digs the Hole, Thinking that there are parts of the Whole is Duality And that the flame separate from the fire is not Reality. -- Yogajyotii One minute of sitting, one inch of Buddha. Like lightning all thoughts come and pass. Just once look into your mind-depths: Nothing else has ever been. -- Manzan May all creatures, all living things, all beings one and all, experience good fortune only. May they not fall into harm. -- Anguttara Nikaya Freedom is impersonal. It is not of the self, it is from the self. -- Thyoar This affair is like the bright sun in the blue sky, shining clearly, changeless and motionless, without diminishing or increasing. It shines everywhere in the daily activities of everyone, appearing in everything. Though you try to grasp it, you cannot get it; though you try to abandon it, it always remains. It is vast and unobstructed, utterly empty. Like a gourd floating on water, it cannot be reined in or held down. Since ancient times, when good people of the Path have attained this, they’ve appeared and disappeared in the sea of birth and death, able to use it fully. There is no deficit or surplus: like cutting up sandalwood, each piece is it. -- Ta Hui 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 Followers of the Way, do not be deceived by teachers who everywhere say "I know Zen, I understand the Way," and who endlessly deliver discussions like mountain torrents. All this is action that produces hellish Karma. If one is a true learner of the Way, one does not search for the faults of the world, but rather speedily applies oneself to attain genuine insight. If one only can see with perfect clarity, then all is completed. -- Rinzai Above, across or back again, wherever he goes in the world let him carefully scrutinise the rise and fall of compounded things. -- Itivuttaka We jump from out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire *You* and *I* are conditioned concepts arising Desire, They fall with our conditioned thoughts and emotions Yet Consciousness stays without conditioned notions. -- Yogajyotii
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