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Spring wind 3 Jan 2013 | 09:13 pm
What does the spring wind have in mind, Coming day and night to these groves and gardens? It never asks who owns the peach and damson trees But blows away their crimson without a word. ~ Ch'i-chi, "C...
Love 27 Nov 2012 | 06:05 am
Put away all hindrances, let your mind full of love pervade one quarter of the world, and so too the second quarter, and so the third, and so the fourth. And thus the whole wide world, above, below, ...
Afflictions 20 Dec 2011 | 03:50 pm
People who do not know how to practice the way want to get rid of afflictions. Afflictions are originally void and null; you are trying to use the way to seek the way beyond. ~ Pao-chih
Attitude 5 Sep 2011 | 12:38 pm
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understan...
Transcience 6 Aug 2011 | 05:15 am
All formations are transient; all formations are subject to suffering; all things are without a self. Therefore, whatever there be of form, of feeling, perception, mental formations, or consciousness,...
In every age 1 Feb 2011 | 07:54 am
. . Whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself on earth. I am born in every age to protect the good, to destroy evil, and to re-establish dharma. - Bhagavad Gita...
Attachment 3 Dec 2010 | 05:40 am
. . When you keep thinking about sense objects, attachment comes. Attachment breeds desire, the lust of possession that burns to anger. Anger clouds the judgment; you can no longer learn from past mis...
Location 24 Oct 2010 | 04:30 pm
. . That which makes the eye see but cannot be Seen by the eye, that is the Self indeed. This Self is not someone other than you. - Kena Upanishad
Ceaseless births 18 Jun 2010 | 04:10 am
. . At all times and to all creatures The seed of ceaseless births is desire. If you must desire, desire freedom from birth. That will only come by desiring desirelessness. ~ Tirukkural 37:361-362
The weeds 13 Apr 2010 | 11:37 am
Those who have spent ten or twenty years brushing aside the weeds looking for the way and yet have not see the buddha nature often say they are trapped by oblivion and excitement. What they don't real...
