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"You are the sum total of everything it has taken to produce you since before the beginning of beginningless time".
Buddhist saying
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched,
But to be without sores is more pleasurable still;
There are pleasures in worldly desires,
But to be without desires is more pleasurable still
~Nargjuna Precious Garland
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
“Where would I find enough leather
To cover the entire surface of the earth?
But with leather soles beneath my feet,
It’s as if the whole world has been covered.”
~Shantideva Way of the Bodhisattva
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
(Well that sums up the story of the three monks in one short and pithy verse... . )
“The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.”
― Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation
@federica said:
I thuppothe you could thay I have that ith-th-ue....
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Don't do that, I just spilled coffee in my lap laughing
Thank you, you are hilariouth
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
edited June 2014
MODERATOR NOTE:
This thread is a thread for quotations and saying. Long tracts of literature, and wordy lengthy passages of text usually get the result of "TL; DR."
Bob is such an icon and so revered in Jamaica, when you go to confession the priest can give (as penance) 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail. Mary's and 3 Bob Marley's
@Che said:
Bob is such an icon and so revered in Jamaica, when you go to confession the priest can give (as penance) 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail. Mary's and 3 Bob Marley's
I knew Catholicism was being practiced correctly somewhere . . .
♪♫•¨•.¸¸❤ I and I. Rastafaria (king man) Bob Marley ♪¸¸.•¨•♫
"Instead of asking ourselves what the Buddha can teach us, we should ask: What can reality teach us? Buddha only helps us with making reality our teacher."
"You see this Fairy Land is full of oddities and all sorts of ridiculous things, which a person is compelled to meet and treat as real existences, all the time feeling foolish for doing so." -- George MacDonald
"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
“Maybe like Odysseus, we are finally ready simply to return home to what we are, to our beauty and strength as well as our limitations.
Maybe we are ready to see that what is wanted and needed is what was there all along, our animal life, our love, and our presence.
Maybe we’re finally ready to become the creatures that our deepest stories and metaphors have always described, half-heavenly, half-stupidly earthbound, full of wonder and awe, powerful, and vulnerable.
Maybe the point of our life’s journey, our spiritual odyssey, is not conquest or perfection, whether spiritual or worldly, but rather this simple transformation into what we have been all along, flesh and blood people in a flesh and blood world, feeling what people feel and doing what people do, returning home to what we are. Could this be enough?”
—Roshi Norman Fischer
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.
Dan Keding, Elder Tales: stories of wisdom and courage from around the world (2008), ISBN 1591585945, p. 151
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"You are the sum total of everything it has taken to produce you since before the beginning of beginningless time".
Buddhist saying
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched,
But to be without sores is more pleasurable still;
There are pleasures in worldly desires,
But to be without desires is more pleasurable still
~Nargjuna Precious Garland
“Where would I find enough leather
To cover the entire surface of the earth?
But with leather soles beneath my feet,
It’s as if the whole world has been covered.”
~Shantideva Way of the Bodhisattva
(Well that sums up the story of the three monks in one short and pithy verse...
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I find 'pithy' a really deceptive word. For a word that denotes strong meaningful (and brief) expression, it sounds like some with a lisp saying pissy
I thuppothe you could thay I have that ith-th-ue....
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us!
Edward Wallis Hoch,
“The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.”
― Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation
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Don't do that, I just spilled coffee in my lap laughing
Thank you, you are hilariouth
MODERATOR NOTE:
This thread is a thread for quotations and saying. Long tracts of literature, and wordy lengthy passages of text usually get the result of "TL; DR."
I have opened a new thread titled "Passages and Teachings that Resonate" in 'Arts and Writings' so feel free to post them there....
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Is it ok if I post something I remember reading it somewhere, but dont remember the source? If yes, here it is.
"if there is a problem that you can solve it, then dont worry about it.
If there is a problem that you can't solve it, then dont worry about it"
Similar to the Zen saying.....
"If you understand, things are just as they are, if you don't understand, things are just as they are"
Bob is such an icon and so revered in Jamaica, when you go to confession the priest can give (as penance) 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail. Mary's and 3 Bob Marley's
I knew Catholicism was being practiced correctly somewhere . . .
♪♫•¨•.¸¸❤ I and I. Rastafaria (king man) Bob Marley ♪¸¸.•¨•♫
. . . and now back to the 'One Love' . . .
Kia Ora,
"If you make sense out of non sense, you'll have the answer !"
Bunny Wailer (High on Jah herb no doubt)
Perhaps he was a closeted Zen master -it does have a koanish flavour to it....
Metta Shoshin
"If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion"
Master Linchi (Rinzai)
'Everyone is fighting some secret battle that maybe only they know about '.
A Nun of my aquaintance.
Kia Ora,
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~ Chinese Proverb
Metta Shoshin
"Instead of asking ourselves what the Buddha can teach us, we should ask: What can reality teach us? Buddha only helps us with making reality our teacher."
~the Karmapa
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
"Oommmmmmmmmm"
Dislexic cow
f you are depressed, you are living in the past.
If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
~ Lao Tzu
"You see this Fairy Land is full of oddities and all sorts of ridiculous things, which a person is compelled to meet and treat as real existences, all the time feeling foolish for doing so." -- George MacDonald
No one listens to you..until you fart. anon.
Time Is God's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. anon
Death is natures way of telling you to slow down.....anon.
How many Madhyamika students does to take to screw in a lightbulb ?
Four.
One to screw it in . One to not screw it in.
One to both screw it in and not screw it in.
One to neither screw it in nor not screw it in.
Robert Thurman...( yes ...Uma's dad ).
"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
“Maybe like Odysseus, we are finally ready simply to return home to what we are, to our beauty and strength as well as our limitations.
Maybe we are ready to see that what is wanted and needed is what was there all along, our animal life, our love, and our presence.
Maybe we’re finally ready to become the creatures that our deepest stories and metaphors have always described, half-heavenly, half-stupidly earthbound, full of wonder and awe, powerful, and vulnerable.
Maybe the point of our life’s journey, our spiritual odyssey, is not conquest or perfection, whether spiritual or worldly, but rather this simple transformation into what we have been all along, flesh and blood people in a flesh and blood world, feeling what people feel and doing what people do, returning home to what we are. Could this be enough?”
—Roshi Norman Fischer
Kia Ora,
"Inside or outside yourself you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it!"
Metta Shoshin .
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I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas Merton
The answer is to question the mind. Not to answer its questions.
https://www.facebook.com/embracedbylife
Kia Ora,
"Everything evolves" will come to mean "Nothing is true!"
Neitzsche
Metta Shoshin .
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Neitzsche would have been a nightmare patient for Freud methinks :-/
But oh, to have been a fly on the wall, in such circumstances - !!
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I had a friend who had a sign on his front gate that read...
"Are you here with the solution, or are you part of the problem?"
Quote of the week.
Kia Ora,
My bet's on Freud would end wearing the straight jacket.... .
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Metta Shoshin
"I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane"
Waylon Jennings
"Do or do not. There is no try".
Yoda
" ...By what stretch of arrogance do you think a life form that looks like you is more important than a life form that doesn't?" -- Joel Salatin
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain
One of the things . . .
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us".
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
-- Lao-tzu
Kia Ora,
"The only thing you can't get rid of by losing it, is your temper !"
Metta Shoshin .
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" What's the point of going out? We're just gonna wind up back here any way."
Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.
Dan Keding, Elder Tales: stories of wisdom and courage from around the world (2008), ISBN 1591585945, p. 151
Thanks you @lobster , the book looks entertaining and educational.