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Slogans, trite and profundity

lobsterlobster Crusty Veteran
edited April 2013 in General Banter
Meditation without love is dry. Love without meditation is empty.
~Dalai Lama (allegedly)
Music kindly posted the above and as mentioned it does not appear genuine. You might say:
Meditation in Love is Enlightenment. Enlightenment without Love is Nothing.

You might not . . .l

My favourite dictum is:
form is emptiness; emptiness is form
http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/emptiness.html

Do you have a favourite or something of your own?
Soon I may have to sing a song of attainment, something enlightening and multi layered . . . m m m . . . perhaps:

Only trust the Mind you don't have.
or . . .
Never reflect without shining.
or . . .
The best place to look for the unfounded is in the found.
or . . .
Never play seriously, you might win.

Actually, 'Goodbye and thanks for all the fish' from Douglas Adams seems about right . . .
deb2676

Comments

  • misecmisc1misecmisc1 I am a Hindu India Veteran
    Buddha's teachings: sabbe sankhara anicca. sabbe sankhara dukkha. sabbe dhamma anatta.
  • BhanteLuckyBhanteLucky Alternative lifestyle person in the South Island of New Zealand New Zealand Veteran
    Unite Against Normality!
    Is the slogan I like best. It has been my favorite for years.
  • musicmusic
    JamestheGiant said:

    Unite Against Normality!
    Is the slogan I like best. It has been my favorite for years.

    It's Ted Bundy's favorite too.
    BhanteLuckyInvincible_summerThailandTomTosh
  • BhanteLuckyBhanteLucky Alternative lifestyle person in the South Island of New Zealand New Zealand Veteran
    music said:


    It's Ted Bundy's favorite too.

    Oh no! The crazed murderer or the shoe salesman?
    sova
  • mfranzdorfmfranzdorf Veteran
    Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

    sova
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    If you cannot improve on the silence or conversation/situation, it is probably best to shut up.
    deb2676
  • lamaramadingdonglamaramadingdong Veteran
    There's two times to keep your mouth shut- when swimming and when angry.
    Vastmindlobsterdeb2676sova
  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    Graffito I still love: "Man without God is like a fish without a bicycle."
    sova
  • CittaCitta Veteran
    edited April 2013
    genkaku said:

    Graffito I still love: "Man without God is like a fish without a bicycle."

    Ah..but the original genkaku is ," A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle " It adorned many a feminist student's bedsit wall in 60's Oxford...It was also in large format on the wall of an Oxford cafe which only admitted women and boys under 10...You could see it through the window if you pressed your male nose against the glass.
    This cafe was known to we chaps, with an appalling absence of political correctness, as The Angry Lesbian..
  • riverflowriverflow Veteran
    'There is nothing extra.' ~ Dogen (from Uji if I recall correctly).

    sova
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    "It's what it is"
    riverflow
  • riverflowriverflow Veteran
    ThailandTom said:

    "It's what it is"

    I think I've mentioned this before elsewhere on the forum, but I never heard this saying until I moved to Arkansas. Its such a funny saying, and yet it is actually quite profound! haha

  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    It is also a refined title of a great Buddhist book :D
    riverflow
  • swaydamswaydam Veteran
    edited April 2013
    No fear, no distractions. I got that from Fight Club.
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
    riverflow
  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    edited April 2013
    "It is what it is" is one of those statements that rolls off the lips with a Vaseline-like slickness.

    Sounds kool but generally ignores the implicit, "what is it?,"
    Invincible_summer
  • ToshTosh Veteran
    An alcoholic: Someone who refuses to give up a life of failure without a fight.
    riverflowlobster
  • VastmindVastmind Memphis, TN Veteran
    edited April 2013
    genkaku said:

    "It is what it is" is one of those statements that rolls off the lips with a Vaseline-like slickness.

    Sounds kool but generally ignores the implicit, "what is it?,"

    I agree with you here.
    I have found it more practical, as far as dealing with expectations,
    to remind myself...It ain't what it ain't.


    The slogan I go to most often.....
    'It's not about me'.
  • sovasova delocalized fractyllic harmonizing Veteran
    Perhaps my favorite, which may one day become a tattoo adorning this hunk of flesh and bones I found in a book by Aldous Huxley called The Perennial Philosophy

    "When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found"
    riverflowlobster
  • riverflowriverflow Veteran
    sova said:

    Perhaps my favorite, which may one day become a tattoo adorning this hunk of flesh and bones I found in a book by Aldous Huxley called The Perennial Philosophy

    "When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found"

    If I recall correctly, Huxley attributes that quote to Rumi.
    lobster
  • lobsterlobster Crusty Veteran
    There are so many, thanks guys:

    Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.
    Muhammad

    We can learn how not to think . . . wait a minute did I just ignore the above advice?
    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/adolfhitle382691.html

    “Failure is an opportunity.” Lao tzu
    . . . phew saved by the Taoists . . .
    http://needtofail.blog.com/2011/02/06/tao-te-failed-event-aka-the-virtuous-path-of-failure/

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