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Words Of Wisdom {Page Nine}
Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us.
~The Dalai Lama~
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller~
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
~Anna Freud~
When help is rendered by weighing the receiver's need And not the donor's reward, its goodness grows greater than the sea.
~Tirukkural~
Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep these three doors as pure as possible is the practice of karma.
~Lama Thubten Yeshe~
Having slain anger, one sleeps soundly; Having slain anger, one does not sorrow; The killing of anger, With its poisoned root and honeyed tip: This is the killing the noble ones praise, For having slain that, one does not sorrow. ~Buddha~
Creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness while doing something. Whatsoever you do can become creative.
~Chandan~
Waste not food, waste not water, waste not fire; Fire and water exist to serve the Self. Those who realize the Self within the heart Stand firm, grow rich, gather a family Around them, and receive the love of all.
~Taittiriya~
Your own practice can show you the truth. Your own experience is all that counts.
~Bhante Henepola Gunaratana~
Things are the way they are it is the way we deal with things that matters.
~Nashti~
Who is a master? He is the Self after all.� According to the stages of development of the mind the Self manifests as the master externally. The famous ancient saint Dattatreya said that he had more than twenty-four masters. The master is one from who one learns anything. The Guru may be sometimes inanimate also, as in the case of Dattatreya. God, Guru and the Self are identical. A spiritually-minded man thinks that God is all-pervading and takes God for his Guru. Later, God brings him in contact with a personal Guru and the man recognises him as all in all. Lastly the same man is made by the grace of the master to feel that his Self is the master.�
~Sri Ramana Maharshi~
A gold Buddha can't get through a furnace, a wood Buddha can't get through a fire, and a clay Buddha can't get through water. The real Buddha sits within: enlightenment, nirvana, suchness, and Buddha-nature are all clothes sticking to the body.
~Chao-chou~
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
~Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi~
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. ~Buddha~
You are pure awareness. The world is an illusion, Nothing more. When you understand this fully, Desire falls away. You find peace. For indeed! There is nothing.
~Ashtavakra Gita~
No village law, no law of market town, No law of a single house is this� Of all the world and the worlds of gods This only is the Law, that all things are impermanent.
~Buddhist Parables~
No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
~Charles Dickens~
My Master, Ramana Maharishi, said to me, "God is not an object to be seen, He is the subject. He cannot be seen, He is the Seer, find this Seer." My Heart was opened. "Find the Seer,"� This is the Teaching.
~Papaji~
Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions. Every discrepancy between a conscious intention and the emotions that accompany it, points directly to a splintered aspect of the self that requires healing.
~Gary Zukav~
If there is something you truly want to know, then you truly want to listen to your own wisdom. You know, meditation is learning how to listen with your own wisdom, so that you can see. I think why meditation is amazingly important, is that somehow our unconscious world is much bigger. It is huge, universal, and we don't understand that one. Meditation allows this world to be light and knowable, understandable. That is why it is important. Normally we are totally robbed by the egotistic, conventional mind, not allowing the fundamental mind to be functioning. That is why one should have confidence, truly... through experience, one has confidence in one's spiritual journey.
~Lama Thubten Yeshe~
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
~Henri Frederic Amiel~
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
~Lao Tzu~
Keep on pondering, and suddenly the flower of mind will bloom with enlightenment, illuminating the whole universe.� This can be called getting it in the mind, responding to it in action. Thereupon you can turn the earth into gold and churn the rivers into cream. Wouldn't that make life exhilarating?
~Chien-ju~
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
~Howard W. Newton~
Just like a blossom, bright colored and full of scent: a well-spoken word is fruitful when well carried out.
~Dhammapada~
Remember, life is not made of great things, it is made of very small things. In the early morning, sipping a cup of tea, do it totally, as if this is the last cup of tea you will ever sip again. Take each moment and squeeze the whole juice of it. ~Osho~
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up & continue.
~Winston Churchill~
If we live our lives continually motivated by anger and hatred, even our physical health deteriorates.
~Dalai Lama~
To go beyond judgments of good and bad is the way of watchfulness. And it is through watchfulness that transformations happen.
~Osho~
The ego and the Self dwell as intimate friends in the same body, like two golden birds perched in the same tree. The ego eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree, while the Self looks on detached. For as long as you identify with the ego, you will feel joy and sorrow. But if you know you are the Self, the Lord of Life, you will be free from suffering; the supreme source of light; the supreme source of love. You will transcend duality and live in a state of Oneness.
~Mundaka Upanishad~
To study the Buddha is to study oneself. To study oneself is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to be enlightened by the myriad dharmas. The be enlightened by the myriad dharmas is to bring about the dropping away of body and mind of both oneself and others. The traces of enlightenment come to an end, and this traceless enlightenment is continued endlessly.
~D�gen~
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
~Frank Lloyd Wright~
Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy. The wise person delights in the truth And follows the law of the awakened. The farmer channels water to his land. The fletcher whittles his arrows. And the carpenter turns his wood. So the wise direct their mind.
~Dhammapada~
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ~Thomas Jefferson~
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes
a steppingstone in the path of the strong. ~Thomas Carlysle~
The sun with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
~Galileo~
The real basis of Buddhism is full knowledge of the truth of reality. If one knows this truth then no teaching is necessary. If one doesn't know, even if he listens to the teaching, he doesn't really hear. ~Ajahn Chah~
When people speak badly of you, you should respond in this way: Keep a steady heart and don't reply with harsh words. Practice letting go of resentment and accepting that the other's hostility is the spur to your understanding. Be kind, adopt a generous standpoint, treat your enemy as a friend, and suffuse all your world with affectionate thoughts, far-reaching and widespread, limitless and free from hate. In this state you should try to remain. ~Dhammapada~
Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always. ~Dan Zadra~
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
~Vernon Sanders Law~
The problem with modern man is that we have forgotten the language of silence, we have forgotten the way of the heart. We have completely forgotten that there is a life which can be lived through the heart. We are too much hung up in the head, and because we are too much in the head we cannot make any sense out of love. ~Osho~
Unless we have the determination to increase our mindfulness from moment to moment, we will easily forget to practice it. ~Ayya Khema~
The most wonderful thing, the most profound mystery a human being can face, is not realized through ideas, knowledge or even belief; it arrives as a direct emotional experience.
~Dave Mason~
Men and women are beautiful masks. Behind them all is the same Divine Power who rises up gently through the six subtle centers of this human body, giving each person a unique flavor and intensity, unveiling through each living being a unique degree of Divine Manifestation. ~Ramakrishna Paramahamsa~
Knowing harmony is constancy. Knowing constancy is enlightenment. ~Lao Tzu~
Subhuti asked: "How can the practitioner who wishes to help all beings find enlightenment awaken to the complete and perfect wisdom?" The Buddha said: "This most subtle awakening comes about through moment-to-moment attentiveness. By way of attentiveness, there is attunement to the ways in which things manifest, such as form and consciousness. The practitioner awakens to perfect wisdom by becoming blissfully free from obsessions with habits, names, sense experiences, personal feelings, and with dread of dying and all the despair that goes with it." ~Prajnaparamita~
If I'm to be aware of living a full life, I must be successful in dying a thousand times each day. Every belief I let go of is death of old concepts/beliefs that don't serve. ~Byron Katie~
It is very important that you do not compare your actions to your partner's or judge your partner's behavior as unskillful. Rather, focus on your own actions and take responsibility for them. Recall those times when you looked into your partner's eyes and saw the pain you caused this person you love to suffer. If you can admit your own faults, if you can see how hurtful your actions were and tap into a sense of concern for your partner's well-being, then compassion and loving-friendliness will flow. ~Bhante Henepola Gunaratana~
When unfortunate things happen in our lives there are two possible results.�One possibility is mental unrest, anxiety, fear, doubt, frustration and eventually depression, and, in the worst case, even suicide. That's one way.�The other possibility is that because of that tragic experience you become more realistic, you become closer to reality.�With the power of investigation, the tragic experience may make you stronger and increase your self-confidence and self-reliance.�The unfortunate event can be source of inner strength. ~The Dalai Lama~
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. ~Warren G. Bennis~
To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach. ~Sissela Bok~
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ~W.M. Lewis~
No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease. ~Dogen~
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. ~Rachel Carson~
Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it.
~Andre Gide~
The dharma that is taught and the dharma that is experienced are descriptions of how to live, how to use your life to wake you up rather than put you to sleep. And if you choose to spend the rest of your life trying to find out what awake means and what asleep means, I think you might attain enlightenment. ~Pema Ch�dr�n~
Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence. ~James Cone~
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
~Christian Furchtegott Gellert~
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
~Abraham Lincoln~
The Spirit in Me Greets the Spirit in You. I Bow to the Divine in You. I Honor the Place in You that is of Love, of Truth and of Light. And when You are in that Place in You, And I am in that Place in Me, We are One. ~Unknown~
If you return kindness for injuries received and forget both, Those who harmed you will be punished by their own shame. ~Tirukkural~
Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family. ~The Dalai Lama~
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~Edith Wharton~
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore
your faith in yourself. ~Lucille Ball~
Speak literally. Say what you mean without justification, without any desire to manipulate, and without concern about how another may interpret your words. Practice not being careful. Experience the freedom this brings.
~Byron Katie~
It is important to understand that self-realization is not something we imagine or create from nothing. It is something that exists already, and meditation is the device to awaken it.
~Nah Sti~
Knowledge is a wide river and there's many ways to cross it. It is necessary to choose respected mentors, not to parrot them but to absorb what you can and use what they teach as stepping stones.
~Lisa Haynes~
Knowledge is not power until you apply the knowledge to yourself.
~Unknown~
As a caterpillar, having come to the end of one blade of grass, draws itself together and reaches out for the next, so the Self, having come to the end of one life and dispelled all ignorance, gathers in his faculties and reaches out from the old body to a new. ~Brihadaranyaka~
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart~
So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".
~Zen Master Kyong Ho~
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus~
Heaven is calm and clear, Earth is stable and peaceful. Beings who lose these qualities die, While those who emulate them live. Calm spaciousness is the house of spiritual light; Open selflessness is the abode of the Way Therefore there are those who seek it outwardly And lose it inwardly, And there are those who safeguard it inwardly And gain it outwardly. ~Huai-nan-tzu~
Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, know the sweet joy of the way. ~Buddha~
The shell must break before the bird can fly. ~Tennyson~
Those who are free from arrogance, anger, and lust Will prosper in great dignity. ~Tirukkural~
There is only one state of being. There is not a single moment when one is not conscious of being. What we are in our sentient state is the consciousness of being present. When this conscious awareness is aware of sensory forms, it operates as witnessing. When it identifies itself with a witnessing organism as a separate entity, it operates as an individual person who suffers and enjoys. ~Ramesh S. Balsekar~
At the time for initiative he takes no initiative. Young, strong, but lethargic, the resolves of his heart exhausted, the lazy, lethargic one loses the path to discernment. ~Dhammapada~
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow. ~Anonymous~
Life in itself is an empty canvas, it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.
~Osho~
We are the child. There is you, there is everybody else and then there is your child. The child is not one of everybody else. The child is you. Yet the child is not you, the child is someone other than you. The child is both -- for the child is born of the essence that transcends you and other. We are children of the Infinite Light. ~Tzvi Freeman~
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