The Dhamma doesn't tell you what is okay or not okay to feel.
It tells you that feelings arise. That they are impermanent. It tells you to pay attention to them, and that to understand their nature leads to peace.
I have yet to see something that says "Don't feel this" or "Don't feel that".
It tells you that feelings arise. That they are impermanent. It tells you to pay attention to them, and that to understand their nature leads to peace.
I have yet to see something that says "Don't feel this" or "Don't feel that".
April 15, 2024 at 3:30 AM
The Dhamma doesn't tell you what is okay or not okay to feel.
It tells you that feelings arise. That they are impermanent. It tells you to pay attention to them, and that to understand their nature leads to peace.
I have yet to see something that says "Don't feel this" or "Don't feel that".
It tells you that feelings arise. That they are impermanent. It tells you to pay attention to them, and that to understand their nature leads to peace.
I have yet to see something that says "Don't feel this" or "Don't feel that".
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Morning Meditation: Followers of Buddha are always poor. Poverty is of the body, not of the Buddha mind or the Way!
Hsuan Chuen
Hsuan Chuen
April 6, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Morning Meditation: Followers of Buddha are always poor. Poverty is of the body, not of the Buddha mind or the Way!
Hsuan Chuen
Hsuan Chuen
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Followers of the way: Foundations of Buddhism: 'Doctrine of Dependent Origination', by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu.
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Doctrine of Dependent Origination, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Anybody who is able to comprehend the doctrine of dependent origination has the capability to engage in his own cultivation and end his suffering...
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April 10, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Followers of the way: Foundations of Buddhism: 'Doctrine of Dependent Origination', by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu.
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Morning Meditation: The word 'self' denotes the same thing which the word 'Buddha' denotes.
Manjushri
'Perfection of Wisdom in 700 Lines'
Manjushri
'Perfection of Wisdom in 700 Lines'
April 11, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Morning Meditation: The word 'self' denotes the same thing which the word 'Buddha' denotes.
Manjushri
'Perfection of Wisdom in 700 Lines'
Manjushri
'Perfection of Wisdom in 700 Lines'
With certainty, the Dhamma being the anchor point of our life we head towards more peace.
I often ask myself what is the most important physical job to have, and it wavers.
Sometimes it's urban planning, other times it's ending homelessness, sometimes it's make youtube videos and art.
I often ask myself what is the most important physical job to have, and it wavers.
Sometimes it's urban planning, other times it's ending homelessness, sometimes it's make youtube videos and art.
April 11, 2024 at 12:09 PM
With certainty, the Dhamma being the anchor point of our life we head towards more peace.
I often ask myself what is the most important physical job to have, and it wavers.
Sometimes it's urban planning, other times it's ending homelessness, sometimes it's make youtube videos and art.
I often ask myself what is the most important physical job to have, and it wavers.
Sometimes it's urban planning, other times it's ending homelessness, sometimes it's make youtube videos and art.
It's good to try to help the world. It's good to try to protect the environment and work to make nice buildings.
It's important though, to not see the thing we're trying to fix as being the source of our suffering.
If I am looking at something exterior, feeling upset and blaming it for my sorrow..
It's important though, to not see the thing we're trying to fix as being the source of our suffering.
If I am looking at something exterior, feeling upset and blaming it for my sorrow..
April 9, 2024 at 10:49 AM
It's good to try to help the world. It's good to try to protect the environment and work to make nice buildings.
It's important though, to not see the thing we're trying to fix as being the source of our suffering.
If I am looking at something exterior, feeling upset and blaming it for my sorrow..
It's important though, to not see the thing we're trying to fix as being the source of our suffering.
If I am looking at something exterior, feeling upset and blaming it for my sorrow..
May you be well. May you be at peace.
April 8, 2024 at 10:16 AM
May you be well. May you be at peace.
Everything we do for personal gain we're also doing for personal loss. Because whatever we gain we will be separated from.
April 7, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Everything we do for personal gain we're also doing for personal loss. Because whatever we gain we will be separated from.
We don't have to change the world in order to have a positive effect on it.
April 6, 2024 at 10:28 AM
We don't have to change the world in order to have a positive effect on it.
This might not be the best analogy.
But maybe insight can be like flashes of lightning or shooting stars. You have to be looking to see them.
With insight, you need to be mindful. If you're not being mindful, you don't see. You miss the opportunity to see. Mindfulness is that opportunity.
But maybe insight can be like flashes of lightning or shooting stars. You have to be looking to see them.
With insight, you need to be mindful. If you're not being mindful, you don't see. You miss the opportunity to see. Mindfulness is that opportunity.
April 4, 2024 at 1:07 PM
This might not be the best analogy.
But maybe insight can be like flashes of lightning or shooting stars. You have to be looking to see them.
With insight, you need to be mindful. If you're not being mindful, you don't see. You miss the opportunity to see. Mindfulness is that opportunity.
But maybe insight can be like flashes of lightning or shooting stars. You have to be looking to see them.
With insight, you need to be mindful. If you're not being mindful, you don't see. You miss the opportunity to see. Mindfulness is that opportunity.
This was a pretty wonderful documentary:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0m6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0m6...
April 3, 2024 at 7:34 AM
This was a pretty wonderful documentary:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0m6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0m6...
It’s good to make the mind pure and at peace, but it’s hard. You have to start with the externals—your bodily actions and words—and work your way in.
- Ajahn Chah
- Ajahn Chah
April 3, 2024 at 4:43 AM
It’s good to make the mind pure and at peace, but it’s hard. You have to start with the externals—your bodily actions and words—and work your way in.
- Ajahn Chah
- Ajahn Chah
"Because we don’t exercise sense restraint, we blame our suffering on externals".
- Ajahn Chah
- Ajahn Chah
April 3, 2024 at 4:42 AM
"Because we don’t exercise sense restraint, we blame our suffering on externals".
- Ajahn Chah
- Ajahn Chah
What we perceive as coldness is really just the body letting us know that heat is leaving the body.
The quality of "cold" doesn't actually exist in anything internal or external. It's a process, a verb.
There is no "cold" essence.
The quality of "cold" doesn't actually exist in anything internal or external. It's a process, a verb.
There is no "cold" essence.
April 2, 2024 at 12:52 PM
What we perceive as coldness is really just the body letting us know that heat is leaving the body.
The quality of "cold" doesn't actually exist in anything internal or external. It's a process, a verb.
There is no "cold" essence.
The quality of "cold" doesn't actually exist in anything internal or external. It's a process, a verb.
There is no "cold" essence.
How beautiful it is that we have a practice that can help free us from suffering.
April 1, 2024 at 10:44 PM
How beautiful it is that we have a practice that can help free us from suffering.
Desire is an unpleasant feeling. But it also is impermanent, it comes in waves. It's not always there.
To me, this gives me a sense of hope. It means we're not stuck desiring forever.
It is a habit, it seems.
To me, this gives me a sense of hope. It means we're not stuck desiring forever.
It is a habit, it seems.
April 1, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Desire is an unpleasant feeling. But it also is impermanent, it comes in waves. It's not always there.
To me, this gives me a sense of hope. It means we're not stuck desiring forever.
It is a habit, it seems.
To me, this gives me a sense of hope. It means we're not stuck desiring forever.
It is a habit, it seems.
May you be well. May you be at ease. May you have clarity of mind. May you know that this too will pass. That the teaching is always with us. The path is always here to meet us.
Everything is teaching us.
Everything is teaching us.
April 1, 2024 at 12:21 PM
May you be well. May you be at ease. May you have clarity of mind. May you know that this too will pass. That the teaching is always with us. The path is always here to meet us.
Everything is teaching us.
Everything is teaching us.
We can use the suttas to recalibrate our behavior and outlook.
Is our behavior matching the behavior taught in the suttas? if not we adjust it so that it is.
It helps to keep go back to the suttas, to have that recalibration. It orients us in the right direction.
Is our behavior matching the behavior taught in the suttas? if not we adjust it so that it is.
It helps to keep go back to the suttas, to have that recalibration. It orients us in the right direction.
April 1, 2024 at 12:17 PM
We can use the suttas to recalibrate our behavior and outlook.
Is our behavior matching the behavior taught in the suttas? if not we adjust it so that it is.
It helps to keep go back to the suttas, to have that recalibration. It orients us in the right direction.
Is our behavior matching the behavior taught in the suttas? if not we adjust it so that it is.
It helps to keep go back to the suttas, to have that recalibration. It orients us in the right direction.
"Chance favors the prepared mind".
- Louis Pasteur
- Louis Pasteur
March 30, 2024 at 3:56 AM
"Chance favors the prepared mind".
- Louis Pasteur
- Louis Pasteur
"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude".
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau
March 30, 2024 at 12:25 AM
"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude".
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau
You don't have to be convinced that you're not worthy of your own love.
March 29, 2024 at 8:11 AM
You don't have to be convinced that you're not worthy of your own love.
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It is raining in Kyoto, but it is like a natural melody. I wish you a pleasant weekend.
March 22, 2024 at 11:42 PM
It is raining in Kyoto, but it is like a natural melody. I wish you a pleasant weekend.
In the same way that water streams downhill.
virtue streams down towards peace.
virtue streams down towards peace.
March 28, 2024 at 9:26 AM
In the same way that water streams downhill.
virtue streams down towards peace.
virtue streams down towards peace.
"Looking at images does not lead us to the truth. It leads us into temptation".
- Marlene Dumas
- Marlene Dumas
March 11, 2024 at 7:16 AM
"Looking at images does not lead us to the truth. It leads us into temptation".
- Marlene Dumas
- Marlene Dumas