Daily Buddhist Verses
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Flowers in Springtime, moon in Autumn,
cool wind in Summer, snow in Winter.
If you don't make anything in your mind,
for you it is always a good season.
~ Japanese Zen Master Mu Mun -
In times of hardships such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, it is easy for people to lose faith in their religions.
The best solution is to give Dharma and to explain the law of cause and effect--- the law of karma. The effects of one's actions do not necessarily ripen in the same lifetime. They can ripen in the next lifetime or several lifetimes later.
We should know that whatever we experience is due to karma and should not get angry with other beings or with the disturbances or unpleasant situations we experienced.
Anger is one of the most harmful emotions that can cause very negative karma.
~ Ratna Vajra Sukya Rinpoche -
I always tell people, especially intellectuals with knowlege of modern science , that they can refuse to believe everything if they want; but they should keep an inquisitive mind so that it would drive them to seek for answers. But they cannot refuse to believe in the law of cause and effect because this is the law of Science, no doubts about that.
The law of karma which Buddha has taught us is most profound and enlightening; not for fortune telling or forecasting misfortune. If one is to dwell on such to explain the law of karma, then one has gone to the wrong path of Fatalism. Sadly, most people start to doubt the law of cause and effect when faced with adversity in life, this is not just being short-sighted but also ignorance.
~ Venerable Yan Pei -
When we look into a flower, we can see that it contains the whole cosmos - sunshine, clouds, time, space, and even our consciousness.
~ Fifth-century Buddhist master Vasubhandhu -
Learning the Dharma means reducing vexations. Buddha means awaken. Awaken means to let go. Treat vexations like the rain and a shadow. If you do not keep it, it would not stay.
~ Venerable Shi Fa Zhao -
Like a flower that is colourful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.
~ Buddha -
The courageous is without fear. One who is able to distinguish right from wrong is wise. Slander cannot destroy a person unless one is without substance. When faced with slander, there is no need to defend oneself. The most common mistake of a manager is to criticize his/her subordinates without giving any training or instructions. A manager must learn how to coach others and not have the attitude that " I am the boss." Integrate into the group - as the Buddha said, " I am but one of the sentient beings."
~ Venerable Shi Fa Zhao -
Then any solution must address both, something that a socially-engaged Buddhism is well equipped to do. Buddhism begins as a personal path that works to transform our own greed, ill-will and delusion into generosity, loving-kindness and wisdom. But to overcome one's own dukkha is to become more aware of the dukkha maintained by unjust and unnecessary social arrangements. To overcome that institutionalized dukkha, we need to work collectively. So we need to avoid two extremes. One is a Buddhism that remains preoccupied only with one's own awakening and personal liberation. The other is a socially-preoccupied Buddhism that loses its roots in personal transformation, because it identifies too much with a "progressive" understanding of our lack as due mainly to social oppression. The challenge today is integrating these two concerns.
~ David R. Loy, Loy-Civil Society -
No wisdom can we get hold of, no highest perfection,
No Bodhisattva, no thought of enlightenment either.
When told of this, if not bewildered and in no way anxious,
A Bodhisattva courses in the Tathagata's wisdom.
In form, in feeling, will, perception and awareness [20]
Nowhere in them they find a place to rest on.
Without a home they wander, dharmas never hold them,
Nor do they grasp at them...
But when he does not course in form, in feeling, or perception,
In will or consciousness, but wanders without home,
Remaining unaware of coursing firm in wisdom,
His thoughts on non-production -- then the best of all the calming trances cleaves to him.
The Leader himself was not stationed in the realm which is free from conditions,
Nor in the things which are under conditions, but freely he wandered without a home:
Just so, without a support or a basis a Bodhisattva is standing. [21]
~ Astasahasrika Sutra -
Enlightenment, True Nature, True Self, Wholeness, the Unconditioned Absolute - whatever words have been given to what is without words, unthinkable, unknowable, ungraspable - is not the effect of a cause. It is luminously present and timeless, overlooked by the roving intellect that is trying to grasp it, and obscured by the bodymind's constantly shifting moods, desires, and fears. Moment-to-moment meditation is clearly coming upon this roving and shifting, resisting and fearing mind and the urge to do something about it!... Meditation that is free and effortless, without goal, without expectation, is an expression of Pure Being that has nowhere to go, nothing to get.
There is no need for awareness to turn anywhere. It's here! Everything is here in awareness! When there is a waking up from fantasy, there is no one who dos it. Awareness and the sound of a plane are here with no one in the middle trying to "do" them or bring them together. They are here together! The only thing that keeps things (and people) apart is the "me"-circuit with its separative thinking. When that is quiet, divisions do not exist.
~ The Silent Question: Meditating in the Stillness of Not-Knowing by Toni Packer -
Everything is real and is not real.
Both real and not real.
Neither real nor not real.
This the Buddha taught accordingly.
~ (Nagarjuna 18:8 ) -
" If i give this, what shall I get? "
Such thinking for my own purpose
is the way of the ghosts;
" If I enjoy this, what shall I give? "
Such thinking for other's purpose
is a quality of the gods.
~ Shantideva, A Guide To Boddhisattva's Way Of Life -
Like the two sides of the hand, when looked at one way by examining its deeper nature, there is the emptiness of inherent existence, but when looked at from the other side, there is the appearance of the phenomenon itself. They are one enitity. Therefore, form is emptiness, and emptiness is form.
~ The Dalai Lama -
The Dharma is in our daily life,
it lets us turn a unfavourable situation around,
it lets us cut the obstacles in life to the minimum.
~ Zen master Bai yun -
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world,
It is appeased by love.
This is an eternal law.
~ Buddha -
Buddha-mind is here,
Awake and behold it !
~ Hui neng -
A person is not earth, not water,
Not fire, not wind, not space,
Not consciousness, and not all of them.
What person is there other than these?
~ Nagarjuna, Precious Garland -
The Tree of Perfect Wisdom is originally no tree
Nor has the bright mirror any frame
Buddha-nature is forever clear and pure
Where is there any dust?
~Hui neng -
Even royal chariots wear out, and the body too grows old and weak. But the virtue of the good never grows old, and so they continue to share their goodness. Those who in their youth did not live in harmony and self control, and those who did not gain spiritual wealth, they later look back on their lives in regret. They become like old water birds lingering around a lake without fish.
~ Buddha -
Eating, working, and making money are meaningless in themselves. However, even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.
~ The Dalai Lama -
Do your best each of you; go wherever circumtances lead you.
With those who are sympathetic
You may have discussion about Buddhism.
As to those whose point of view differs from ours,
Treat them politely and try to make them happy.
Disputes are alien to our school,
They are incompatible with its spirit.
~ Hui neng -
I would like to offer something to help you but in the Zen school we do not have a single thing!
~Japanese zen master Ikkyu -
Just live that life. It doesn't matter whether it is life of hell, life of the hungry ghost, life of the animal, it's okay; just live that life, see.
And as a matter of fact no other way. Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.
~Maezumi