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"The Buddha… resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain… To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha – which is to demean oneself."
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
“You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.”
― Chris Rock
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” -- T.S. Eliot
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow-it only saps today of its joy !"
Metta Shoshin . ..
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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 August 2014
@Shoshin, one, you have no need to keep prefacing your posts with 'Kia Ora' and ending them with 'metta Shoshin'. especially in this thread. It's actually tedious, particularly when you post successive posts... once is ample....
Two, please provide a source or origin of your quotes and sayings, as others have done.
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
John Lennon
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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
Someone called Logan Ray is making prior claim to that quotation, but I can't for the life of me find out who he is. I thought it came from the movie (as stated here) but I was wrong, I'm delighted to discover!
I saw that delightful young Indian actor quote it in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and was curious as to its origin, I must have done it too hastily as I got John Lennon's quote as the original. Such a wonderful film.
"In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience"
Frederick Franck
"If a good son or good daughter dedicates lifetimes as many as the sands in the River Ganges to charitable acts, and there were another person who memorised as much as one four-line verse of this scripture and taught it to others, the merit of the latter would be by far greater."
Buddha
The Daimond Sutra
@Che said:
"If a good son or good daughter dedicates lifetimes as many as the sands in the River Ganges to charitable acts, and there were another person who memorised as much as one four-line verse of this scripture and taught it to others, the merit of the latter would be by far greater."
Buddha
The Daimond Sutra
I've seen commentary suggesting that there is more to it than memorizing and regurgitating like a robot.
WATCH OUT FOR THOSE WORLDLY DHARMAS
Even if we understand nothing else, if, by recognizing the eight worldly dharmas, we can clearly differentiate between what is Dharma and what is not Dharma, we’re very fortunate. This knowledge alone gives us a great chance to really put Dharma practice into our daily life and create an incredible amount of merit.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
SNIP...
The Eight Worldly Dharmas are being concerned with:
Getting what you want, and avoiding getting what you do not want
Wanting (instant) happiness, and not wanting unhappiness
Wanting fame, and not wanting to be unknown
Wanting praise, and not wanting blame.
In one way this 21st century is the best time to practice shamatha meditation. In another way it’s the worst. It’s the worst time because we have too much entertainment and distraction – internet, cellphones, smartphones. And it’s the best time precisely because we are so busy, with so much pressure and stress. We start to realize that it is very necessary to calm down and find peace in our minds.
If positive purpose, understanding the why of
life, could be established as the human
driving force, it would be a turning point in
evolution, for it is many times stronger than
the negative purpose of avoiding pain and
discomfort. A person can do things out of
love or enthusiasm that would be impossible
out of fear. Our chief problem at the moment
is to escape the narrowness of everyday
triviality and grasp the nature of the goal;
this, in turn, requires further and wider
development of consciousness.
The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
of shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings
and why the sea is boiling hot
and whether pigs have wings
TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! We used to have to live in a
corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a
palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish
tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting
fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered
by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from our hole in the ground; we had to go and
live in a lake!
TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty
of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TG: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in
a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the
morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down
mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home,
out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury!.....
Rest in natural great peace this exhausted mind,
Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thoughts
Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves
In the infinite ocean of samsara.
Rest in natural great peace.
“Your mind is software. Program it. – Your body is a shell. Change it. – Death is a disease. Cure it. – Extinction is approaching. Fight it.”
rogue General Artificial Intelligences from role playing game Eclipse Phase (no I have never played the game)
Comments
"They say marriages are made in heaven. But so is the thunder and lightning."
"A two-year-old is kind of like a having a blender, but you don't have a top for it."
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
"Obey the principles without being bound by them."
-Bruce Lee
"The Buddha… resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain… To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha – which is to demean oneself."
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.”
― Chris Rock
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin
“People with opinions just go around bothering each other.”
The Buddha
www.fakebuddhaquotes.com/real-buddha-quotes
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.
“A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.”
Jerry Seinfeld
"Stop a moment, cease your work, look around you".
Leo Tolstoy
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
"The only people with whom you should try to 'get even' are those who have helped you".
John Southard
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” -- T.S. Eliot
"Wisdom tells me I’m nothing. Love tells me I’m everything. Between the two, my life flows"
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Kia Ora,
"Zen will never say anything to you-if it does, it's only because you're making it up !"
Metta Shoshin .
..
Kia Ora,
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow-it only saps today of its joy !"
Metta Shoshin .
..
@Shoshin, one, you have no need to keep prefacing your posts with 'Kia Ora' and ending them with 'metta Shoshin'. especially in this thread. It's actually tedious, particularly when you post successive posts... once is ample....
Two, please provide a source or origin of your quotes and sayings, as others have done.
Thanks.
Kia Ora,
From the ego's perspective, the process of letting go is tantamount to suicide!
Quoted by @how
Just thought this deserves to be here in the quotes......
Metta Shoshin .
..
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
John Lennon
Someone called Logan Ray is making prior claim to that quotation, but I can't for the life of me find out who he is. I thought it came from the movie (as stated here) but I was wrong, I'm delighted to discover!
Anyone know who Logan Ray is....? :scratch: .
I saw that delightful young Indian actor quote it in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and was curious as to its origin, I must have done it too hastily as I got John Lennon's quote as the original. Such a wonderful film.
"In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience"
Frederick Franck
"If a good son or good daughter dedicates lifetimes as many as the sands in the River Ganges to charitable acts, and there were another person who memorised as much as one four-line verse of this scripture and taught it to others, the merit of the latter would be by far greater."
Buddha
The Daimond Sutra
I've seen commentary suggesting that there is more to it than memorizing and regurgitating like a robot.
WATCH OUT FOR THOSE WORLDLY DHARMAS
Even if we understand nothing else, if, by recognizing the eight worldly dharmas, we can clearly differentiate between what is Dharma and what is not Dharma, we’re very fortunate. This knowledge alone gives us a great chance to really put Dharma practice into our daily life and create an incredible amount of merit.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
SNIP...
SNIP
http://dharmaflower.net/_dharma/worldly.aspx <-- found via google lol
Of course there is more to it than 'regurgitating' it, it's meant to be a reminder to practice it.
"Cogito Ergo Sum "
Rene Descartes
I didn't mean regurgitate. I would have to show you the commentary. It was a really good point that the commentary made. Can't think of it.
Karmapa
In one way this 21st century is the best time to practice shamatha meditation. In another way it’s the worst. It’s the worst time because we have too much entertainment and distraction – internet, cellphones, smartphones. And it’s the best time precisely because we are so busy, with so much pressure and stress. We start to realize that it is very necessary to calm down and find peace in our minds.
If positive purpose, understanding the why of
life, could be established as the human
driving force, it would be a turning point in
evolution, for it is many times stronger than
the negative purpose of avoiding pain and
discomfort. A person can do things out of
love or enthusiasm that would be impossible
out of fear. Our chief problem at the moment
is to escape the narrowness of everyday
triviality and grasp the nature of the goal;
this, in turn, requires further and wider
development of consciousness.
Tanzen
The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
of shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings
and why the sea is boiling hot
and whether pigs have wings
Okay, here is one of my favorites, though for all I know it may be in here already, buried somewhere in the thread:
"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for anything else."
-- Shunryu Suzuki
A snippet from Monty Python:
TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! We used to have to live in a
corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a
palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish
tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting
fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered
by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from our hole in the ground; we had to go and
live in a lake!
TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty
of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TG: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in
a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the
morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down
mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home,
out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury!.....
"The chaos stems from the fact that people have lost their faith and principles."
Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms TV series
Rest in natural great peace this exhausted mind,
Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thoughts
Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves
In the infinite ocean of samsara.
Rest in natural great peace.
— Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche
“Your mind is software. Program it. – Your body is a shell. Change it. – Death is a disease. Cure it. – Extinction is approaching. Fight it.”
rogue General Artificial Intelligences from role playing game Eclipse Phase (no I have never played the game)
"We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak"
Epictetus
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” — Lewis Carroll, mathematician and writer (1832-1898)
"Before having children, I thought of all the wonderful things I had to teach.
After having children, I realised all the wonderful things I had to learn."
—from a NewBuddhist thread, Second Post:
http://newbuddhist.com/discussion/21209/teacher-and-student#latest
"What other people say about you is none of your business"
Dunno
"Never take anything personally - even if it has your name on it."