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Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 2:11 pm
by chownah

chownah

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:59 pm
by Sam Vara
"The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it."

-Simone Weil

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 1:28 pm
by denise
"to renounce things is not to give them up. it is to acknowledge that all things go away." Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 12:10 pm
by robertk
"I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot." R. Lee Ermey, actor.

best line in a movie:
Full Metal Jacket, : "Sound off like you got a pair!

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 12:51 pm
by Sam Vara
Happy is he whose wants reflect his needs,
but woe to him whose ever-hungry mind
cannot possess the thing it covets most;
our boundless longing never dies but grows,
and growing racks us all the more: who yearns
the most must always settle for much less.
That man who's pleased with what he has seems much
more rich to me than he who values what
he doesn't have above the things he owns.
True wealth is tranquil poverty, so long
as it supplies life's needs. If you feel rich
or poor, it's what you're used to, nothing more.

- Lorenzo de' Medici Altercazione c.1485.

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 8:18 pm
by Nicholas Weeks
It happens that many of us are able to believe political evils are simply structural, as if human nature itself were no obstacle.
Christopher DeGroot

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:03 pm
by aflatun
In this natural state of primordial nonarising,
There is nothing to be negated and nothing to be affirmed.
Nirvāṇa and nonnirvāṇa
Are without difference in the natural state of nonarising.

This is not even nonarising as such,
Because arising things do not exist.
The seeming does not exist, the ultimate does not exist,
Buddhas do not exist, sentient beings do not exist,

Views do not exist, something to be meditated on does not exist,
Conduct does not exist, and results do not exist:
The actuality of this is what is to be cultivated.
Let this mind free from thoughts rest in its own peace.

Without identifying something, without being distracted,
Without characteristics and luminous—thus meditate

-Candrakīrti: Madhyamakāvatāra
The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyu Tradition pg 173

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:12 am
by Lucas Oliveira
Songs of Milarepa:

Milarepa composed many spiritual songs that revealed his realizations. This is one of his famous verses:

“Meditate in the unborn nature of the mind:
Like space, no center, no limit;
Like the sun and moon, bright and clear;
Like a mountain, unmoving, unshakeable;
Like the ocean, deep, unfathomable.”


https://neozen888.wordpress.com/tag/relics-of-milarepa/


:anjali:

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 1:45 pm
by denise
Tact is the ability to see other people as they think you see them ....

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 6:28 pm
by Nicholas Weeks
Permanent things are the creations of an intention and a wisdom more than natural, more than private, more than human.
Russell Kirk

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 8:12 pm
by aflatun
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche wrote:
Mind is empty, we don’t have to make it empty...

Do not hold onto the notion that mind is empty. To hold an idea, ‘Now it is empty; now it is empty,’ is a conceptual construct that we keep in mind. That is not necessary. In the moment of recognising, you see that mind is empty. At that point allow it to be naturally as it is, without applying any technique whatsoever. That is naturalness with­out technique. That will last for a little while. Your attention will then stray, and you will at some point notice that your attention wandered off. Our mind is not completely beyond us—we know when we get distracted. Simply recognise what was distracted. Again, the moment you do so, you see that there is no thing to see...
Recognizing the Thinker

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:25 pm
by Nicholas Weeks
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
—Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 11:31 am
by Sam Vara
Dwell in some decent corner of your being,
Where plates are orderly set and talk is quiet,
Not in its devious crooked corridors
Nor in its halls of riot.

- James Reeves, from The Questioning Tiger, 1964.

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:50 pm
by aflatun
If the self were the aggregates,
It would arise and cease.
If it were different from the aggregates,
It would have none of their characteristics.

When the self does not exist,
How could that which belongs to it?
Due to the pacification of self and that which belongs to it,
The belief in an “I” and a “mine” will cease.

The one who does not grasp at “I” or “mine”
Does not exist either.
The one who sees what lacks the grasping of “I” and “mine,”
That one does not see.

When the sense of “I” and “mine” that is based
On the inner and outer is exhausted,
Appropriation comes to an end.
As that is exhausted, so is birth.

Liberation follows from the exhaustion of action and affliction.
Action and affliction are due to thought,
And thoughts proliferate due to prapañca.
They are brought to an end by emptiness.


Nagarjuna
Mūlamadhyamakakārikā XVIII1-5

Re: Inspiring Words

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 6:30 pm
by denise
"the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness"....