Thought for Wed, 31 Mar 2010

While the Tathagata, in his teaching, constantly makes use of conceptions
and ideas about them, disciples should keep in mind the unreality of all
such conceptions and ideas. They should recall that the Tathagata, in
making use of them in explaining the Dharma always uses them in the
semblance of a raft that is of use only to cross a river. As the raft is
of no further use after the river is crossed, it should be discarded. So
these arbitrary conceptions of things and about things should be wholly
given up as one attains enlightenment. -Buddha

Thought for Tue, 30 Mar 2010

It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.
- Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon by Wei Wu Wei

Thought for Mon, 29 Mar 2010

When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture
are not enough.

When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much.

- Fen Yang

Thought for Sun, 28 Mar 2010

To keep the body in good health is a duty...
otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. - Buddha

Thought for Sat, 27 Mar 2010

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering
- an image of death. - Buddha

Thought for Fri, 26 Mar 2010

The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys,
who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.

The practice of non-meditation is ceasing to be the see-er, hearer or speaker
while eyes, ears and mouths are fulfilling their function in daily life.
Open Secret by Wei Wu Wei

Thought for Thu, 25 Mar 2010

Honen Shonin taught people that it was enough to simply recite Nembutsu. He
firmly believed that true Buddhism should be able to be practiced easily
anywhere and at any time.

Thought for Wed, 24 Mar 2010

One by one, little by little, moment by moment, a wise man should remove
his own impurities, as a simth removes his dross from silver. - Buddha

Thought for Tue, 23 Mar 2010

Let us live gladly! Quite certainly we are free to do it. Perhaps it is our
only freedom, but ours it is, and it is only phenomenally a freedom. 'Living
free' is being 'as one is'. Can we not do it now? Indeed can we not-do-it? It
is not even a 'doing': it is beyond doing and not-doing. It is being as-we-are.

This is the only 'practice'.
'All Else is Bondage; Non-Volitional Living' - Wei Wu Wei

Thought for Mon, 22 Mar 2010

The third step of the Eightfold Path is Right Speech, meaning to abstain from
all lying, falsehoods, evil, abusive, and frivolous speech.

Thought for Sun, 21 Mar 2010

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Buddha

Thought for Sat, 20 Mar 2010

Reality alone exists - and that we are. All the rest is only a dream, a dream
of the One Mind, which is our mind without the 'our'. Is it so hard to accept?
Is it so difficult to assimilate and to live?
- Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei

Thought for Fri, 19 Mar 2010

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow -
and that is likely to hurt. 'Posthumous Pieces' by Wei Wu Wei

Thought for Thu, 18 Mar 2010

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose
minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when
they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that
never leaves them. - Buddha

Thought for Wed, 17 Mar 2010

When you reach the highest form of samadhi, you realize there
are hundreds more beyond that. - Patanjali, 400 B.C.

Thought for Tue, 16 Mar 2010

In order to see birds its is necessary to become a part of the silence.
- Robert Lynd

Thought for Mon, 15 Mar 2010

He, who by good deeds covers the evil he has done, illuminates this world like
the moon freed from clouds. - Buddha

Thought for Sun, 14 Mar 2010

Has no materialist ever suggested that Zen is the "reductio ad absurdum" of
Buddhism? If not, why not? - Wei Wu Wei "Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon"

Thought for Sat, 13 Mar 2010

Man is in appearance a derivative of the world,
but intrinsically the origin of the world. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Thought for Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Destroy 'the ego', hound it, beat it, snub it,
tell it where it gets off?

Great fun, no doubt, but where is it?
Must you not find it first?

Isn't there a word about catching your goose
before you can cook it?

The great difficulty here is that there isn't one.

- 'Posthumous Pieces' by Wei Wu Wei

Thought for Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Has no materialist ever suggested that Zen is the "reductio ad absurdum" of
Buddhism? If not, why not? - Wei Wu Wei "Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon"

Thought for Wed, 10 Mar 2010

To keep the body in good health is a duty...
otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. - Buddha

Thought for Tue, 09 Mar 2010

Whoever thinks as, from, or on behalf of,
an entity which he believes himself to be,
the more so if he tries to work on himself,
by, with, or for such an entity -
which is only a concept in mind
- has not yet begun to understand what
it is all about. - 'Posthumous Pieces' by Wei Wu Wei

Thought for Mon, 08 Mar 2010

To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
- Bernadette Devlin

Thought for Sun, 07 Mar 2010

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment
alone is eternal and real. - Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei

Thought for Sat, 06 Mar 2010

It is fairly obvious that most of us are confused
intellectually. We see that the so-called leaders
in all departments of life have no complete answer
to our various questions and problems. - J. Krishnamurti

Thought for Fri, 05 Mar 2010

By defilement of mind, beings are defiled;
by purification of mind, beings are purified.

Thought for Thu, 04 Mar 2010

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose
minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when
they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that
never leaves them. - Buddha

Thought for Wed, 03 Mar 2010

Destroy 'the ego', hound it, beat it, snub it,
tell it where it gets off?

Great fun, no doubt, but where is it?
Must you not find it first?

Isn't there a word about catching your goose
before you can cook it?

The great difficulty here is that there isn't one.

- 'Posthumous Pieces' by Wei Wu Wei

Thought for Tue, 02 Mar 2010

War can only be understood and put an end to if you and all those who are
concerned very deeply with the survival of man, feel that you are utterly
responsible for killing others. What will make you change? - J. Krishnamurti

Thought for Mon, 01 Mar 2010

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. - Buddha