The Glass is Always Full

mettafou

THE GLASS IS ALWAYS FULL! Forgiveness and humility collapses time and creates a miracle beyond anything you can every imagine or be ready for.. My God this is such a beautiful Universe! The cup's not half full or half empty ITS ALWAYS FULL! MY GOD... IT IS TRUE! I LOVE YOU......

Do you think this is a Buddhist attitude?

PietroPumokin

there's no glass

mettafou

No glass eh? Only time?

Happiness of the Flesh, Not of this World & even Beyond!!!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
And what, Bhikkhus, are then this simple happiness of the flesh?
There are these five strings of sense-pleasure. What five?
Visible forms experiencable by the eye ...
Hearable sounds experiencable by the ear ...
Smellable smells experiencable by the nose ...
Tastable tastes experiencable by the tongue ...
Touchable objects experiencable by the body ...
They are all attractive, captivating, desirable, irresistible, lovely, agreeable,
tempting, pleasing, sensually enticing, seductive, alluring, and tantalizing...!!!
These are the five strings of sense-pleasure. The happiness, that arises from
these five strings of sense-pleasure: This is simply the happiness of the flesh …


Joys of the Flesch!

And what, Bhikkhus, is then the happiness, that is not of this world?
Having eliminated the 5 mental hindrances, mental defects that obstruct understanding,
quite secluded from sensual desires, protected from any detrimental mental state,
one enters & dwells in the 1st Jhana; full of Joy & pleasure born of solitude, joined with
directed & sustained thought. Again, friends, with the stilling of directed & sustained thought,
one enters & dwells in the 2nd Jhana, calmed assurance & unification of mind with Joy &
pleasure, now born of concentration, devoid of any thought! Again, friends, with the fading
away of joy, the friend dwells in equanimity, aware & clearly comprehending, still feeling
pleasure in the body, one enters upon & remains in the 3rd Jhana, regarding which the Noble
Ones declare: 'In aware Equanimity one dwells in Happiness!'. This is the happiness,
that is not of this world! A Joy not of the Flesh!


Jhana: Joy not of this World! Joy not of the Flesh!

What, Bhikkhus, is the happiness beyond that happiness, which is not of this world?
When a bhikkhu, whose mental fermentations are eliminated, reviews his mind
liberated from lust, freed from hatred, and released from confusion, there arises
a transcendental happiness. This is called happiness quite beyond that happiness,
that is not of this world... Yeah!

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [235-7]
section 36:11 On Feeling: Vedana. Joys beyond this world ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/index.html

Have a joyous flesch-free day!

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federica

There is no time.......

Like the present.

mettafou

No glass eh?

So, in emptiness, there is no body,
no feeling, no thought,
no will, no consciousness.
There are no eyes, no ears,
no nose, no tongue,
no body, no mind.
There is no seeing, no hearing,
no smelling, no tasting,
no touching, no imagining.
There is nothing seen, nor heard,
nor smelled, nor tasted,
nor touched, nor imagined.

There is no ignorance,
and no end to ignorance.
There is no old age and death,
and no end to old age and death.
There is no suffering, no cause of suffering,
no end to suffering, no path to follow.
There is no attainment of wisdom,
and no wisdom to attain. http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/heartsutra.html

only time?

being-time:

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Three heads and eight arms may be yesterday's time. The eight- or sixteen-foot body may be today's time. Yet yesterday and today are both in the moment when you directly enter the mountains and see thousands and myriads of peaks. Yesterday's time and today's time do not go away. Three heads and eight arms move forward as your time-being. It looks as if they are far away, but they are here and now. The eight- or sixteen-foot body moves forward as your time-being. It looks as if it is nearby, but it is exactly here. Thus, a pine tree is time, bamboo is time.

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Do not think that time merely flies away. Do not see flying away as the only function of time. If time merely flies away, you would be separated from time. The reason you do not clearly understand the time-being is that you
think of time only as passing. In essence, all things in the entire world are linked with one another as moments. Because all moments are the time-being, they are your time-being.

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The time-being has the quality of flowing. So-called today flows into tomorrow, today flows into yesterday, yesterday flows into today. And today flows into today, tomorrow flows into tomorrow. Because flowing is a quality of time, moments of past and present do not overlap or line up side by side. Qingyuan is time, Huangbo is time, Jiangxi is time, Shitou is time, because self and other are already time. Practice-enlightenment is time. Being splattered with mud and getting wet with water is also time. http://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Uji_Welch.htm

federica

Goodness me, how to say so little with so many words....
There's only so much blah-blah, before it all becomes utterly senseless.

good grief. :rolleyes:

mettafou

That's what i love about Dogen :P and Zhuangzi..