Are you like me?

deepak

I keep looking at the statue of Buddha,

So different the person it depicts.

I keep looking for the Truth,

When its the Sages who realize it.

I keep looking for the path,

When its the Sages who tread on it.

I keep looking at the map,

So different the country from it.

I keep holding the holy book,

Not learning to die from it.

genkaku

Luckily, Buddhism does not concern itself with something else.

taiyaki

the seeker is sought.

formermonkJohn

thats beautiful, deepak!!

PeaceandLove

"What you think you become". Buddha : ].

Cloud

More like "your thinking determines your future happiness or suffering", I think.

Cloud

I think, therefore there is thought.
I think I am, therefore there is deluded thought.

formermonkJohn

i think in some small sense, I am, but its not important.
if i think; I am not, a lot of friends might miss me.
I think were I am is not important, but I am somewhere.
If I were to be nowhere, i might have trouble finding myself!

Were I am might not be real, but it functions for now.
who I am must be something, but its quite hard to explain.
if I were to give up now, a whole life would be lost.
so i keep on trudging, the dharma path.

Lyndon John Taylor mar 2011

Jeffrey

Even the sages were looking for sages.

sukhita

Are you like me? ... very much so.

Daily, I go on my knees,
And gaze at the altar.
I see the image of the Blessed One,
Sitting in great dignity.
Calm, but not in a trance.
Fully alert,
With a look of wakefulness and calmness.
Never caught up with the changing conditions around Him.
He is ... the perfectly, self-awakened one.

It's said that we too can attain Buddahood,
Admist all the turmoil in this world,
And sit with such dignity, wakefulness and calmness.

... to be continued