Topic: Buddhist sayings

[erik]

Letting Go is the ground of meditation practice and the base from which all other methods can arise.

[erik]

Strength comes from acknowledgement of weakness – the ability or strength to be vulnerable.

[erik]

Our happiness-or lack of it-doesn't seem to rely on the 'the thing itself' but on our relationship with 'the thing'. That relationship is mostly entirely independent of 'the thing'.

[erik]

Emptiness is the moment before a situation is born. Emptiness is comprehension. Emptiness is astonishment or wordless wonder. Emptiness is the quality of sensation that is neither one thing nor another. These are all reflections of emptiness.

[erik]

Wisdom and compassion are simply the recognisable human qualities of emptiness and form.

[erik]

Simple daily practice will gradually enable us to become less stressed, less emotionally churned up by the things that happen to us, and more relaxed about who we are.

[Jahn]

Wisdom and compassion are simply the recognisable human qualities of emptiness and form.

Nay, wisdom is equal to love.

[Jahn]

Simple daily practice will gradually enable us to become less stressed, less emotionally churned up by the things that happen to us, and more relaxed about who we are.

The only practice that we should perform - is to be our selves. We are perfect the way we are. And we have full integretity, toward teachers and gurus, popes and the rest, that claim that we are not perfect today, as we stand and speak.

That does not mean that we not look for improvement and growth, we are, but that will be with our tail high and on our conditions. Long gone is the Days of the wip and the carrot.

[erik]

The only practice that we should perform - is to be our selves.

Given that you know who you are. How many years it took for you to understand that?

[erik]

One to provoke a bit of thought in light of "inevitable march..."

Recognising that all people are basically the same, with the same needs, hopes and aspirations, can help us avoid feeling threatened when those needs, hopes and aspirations have different flavours and qualities from our own.

[Nichi]

Since everything is but an illusion,
Perfect in being what it is,
Having nothing to do with good or bad,
Acceptance or rejection,
One might as well burst out laughing!

~Longchenpa (1308-1364)

[erik]

Tantra is based on the experience of emptiness, and through this experience we can come to the actual knowledge, that all negative or painful states of mind are merely distortions of our enlightened nature.

[Nichi]

"It is as though you have an eye
That sees all forms
But does not see itself.
This is how your mind is.
Its light penetrates everywhere
And engulfs everything,
So why does it not know itself ? "

Foyan
11th Century

[erik]

Mantra is the sense of terminal intimacy with the sound – through which one's capacities become ‘self apparent’. Mantra is a ‘carrier wave’ on which the unique frequency of the yidam travels. By reciting mantra, one tunes oneself to the ‘frequency’ of the yidam.

[erik]

Our usual experiences with emptiness can be disconcerting and uncomfortable, so it is helpful to become accustomed to this experience in our meditation practice in order to find emptiness less threating when it naturally occurs.