Topic: Buddhist sayings

[Nichi]

I offer my hand for shaking, to all.

[Ke-ke wan]

This is my feeling as well:

We also have to acknowledge each other, respect that others have their own Way and style.


 If you feel another is straying from the Way, then it's a personal matter, and we are obligated to share our concerns, that is honest communication. But when that person responds, accepts or rejects the criticism, then the deeper relationship of personal healing has to occur.


We can never be so arrogant as to assume we know what is always best for another. Once they have acknowledged our concerns, then it is their responsibility to reflect.

Thanks for weighing in.

[erik]

Fair enough, let this moment become past.

However, while one cannot see the future for another nor shape it, the other's patterns, and repetitive low frequency actions are obvious and clearly visible.
It is natural that they have been, are and will be challenged.
There will never be any guarantees of such challenge not repeating. Inability to fully realise this is a strongest guarantee for the flare-up to repeat.

Realization does not arise out of words. Understanding does not come from mere suggestions.

[Ke-ke wan]

Yeah!  Great posts everyone. I'm glad we have finally agreed to acknowledge and respect each others paths and ways

So happy this is a great day for Soma

[erik]

Much seeking suggests bewilderment in the first place.

[erik]

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

[erik]

Awakening cannot be handed to you – the cause has to be created through your own effort.

[erik]

The idea of kindness as an illness with all its attendant concepts of infection and contagion is highly creative. This manner of expression is a brilliant example of how Tantra turns language on its head. It uses violent rage to describe clarity, and sickness to describe health. Sometimes you have to spread the illness of kindness in the guise of desperado and sometimes in the guise of 'thom yor'.

[erik]

Tantric Buddhism employs the urgent energies of agony and ecstasy, lust and hatred, paranoia and greed to transform our confusion into enlightenment. Tantra is radically positive insanity.

[erik]

Meditation experience will filter through into your daily life if you have the confidence to relax and allow it to.

[erik]

The Buddhas of all times and places have emerged only on account of search for truth. Present day seekers are also in search of truth. Only when you attain truth will you be done; until you have attained it, you will repeat your former ways.

[erik]

An act of kindness enables us to side-step our attachment to the past and future. It is a moment out; a day off; a holiday from me-centred concerns – and, as such, it can be lived vividly moment by moment.

[erik]

Awareness is the uncontrived, unattached recognition of the experience of movement - the movement of the arising and dissolving of thoughts in the continuum of Mind, the appearance and disappearance of phenomena in the vastness of intrinsic space. There is only the sheer exquisiteness of this movement. This is what we actually are.

[Michael]

nicely encapsulated

[erik]

Once we are able to dwell in the experience of emptiness between moments of movement in the mind, and even expand the scope of that emptiness, our patterning becomes transparent. It is revealed and laid bare. We can experience the naked empty nature of our perception, and joyfully play with the movement of intention and response.