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November 27, 2011
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Shakyamuni Buddha said, “Judge not others; judge only yourself.” What appear to be faults in others may actually be reflections of our own emotional afflictions.
Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey.
Photo by I’m Breena.
If you are happy at the expense of another man’s happiness, you are forever bound.Buddha (via likeitsharkweek)
(Source: cassieannelise, via likeitsharkweek)
November 18, 2011
∞If you are happy at the expense of another man’s happiness, You are forever bound.Buddha (via cassieannelise)
(via inharmonywithgaia)
November 14, 2011
∞November 12, 2011
...Buddha on himself.
One of his students asked Buddha, “Are you the messiah?”
“No”, answered Buddha.
“Then are you a healer?”
“No”, Buddha replied.
“Then are you a teacher?” the student persisted.
“No, I am not a teacher.”
“Then what are you?” asked the student, exasperated.“I am awake”, Buddha replied.
(Source: heartmindawakening, via elige)
I see now that all creatures have perfect enlightenment — but they do not know it.Buddha (via elige)
(Source: towardtheone, via elige)
Wisdom about the present moment from a good friend
I am engaged…to the present moment. Hopefully some day we’ll get married and I’ll give up on my affair with the past and stop running off with the Future. And she’s got connections…she promises that if i spend some quality time with her every day in meditation down the track we’ll have some Ménage à trois with the primordial union of Bliss and Emptiness
Anguish and the pretend bliss of distraction
We bring anguish upon ourselves by treating the realities of birth and death as distant isolated facts.
Life becomes the day to day management of specifics. We try to arrange this world by surrounding ourselves with the things we like, and distancing ourselves from things we don’t.
This is fair enough. And it works. Until we are hit by sickness, aging, sorrow, pain, grief and despair. Bad things are going to happen in our lives, no matter how well we try to isolate ourselves and distract ourselves from these. We try to minimise these elements of life, and seek to distract ourselves with tantalising and exciting things.
Distraction, distraction, distraction. This rules our existence. We aren’t even aware of how much of our life is ruled by distractions. Our mind, if we pay attention to it, is constantly elsewhere. Anywhere, but with us in the moment. We are either reliving an edited version of our past, or planning an uncertain future, or daydreaming about somewhere else.
We flee the present in search of a fantasy world. A safe and manageable world, free from the realities of death and suffering. A world of distraction.
This is the evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life. Even when we are aware of this, our mind constantly runs ahead, looks to the past and to anywhere but the present. This craving for distraction affects all elements of our lives.
Anguish arises from the wishing for life to be anything that it currently isn’t. This anguish is the suffering we feel because of our craving to be in our imagined distraction world, which is non-existent.
If we can still the mind of distraction, then we can begin to live in the world as it is. Sometimes we glimpse this state. When we really appreciate a work of art. Or when we are with a lover. Or some other form of beautiful object or thing that nature or life throws our way.
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.Hermann Hesse (via eternalconsciousness)
(via moreofamore)
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?Natalie Clifford Barney (via becomingminimalist)
(via simplifyyourlife)
