Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
I'm pretty sure your quote was a fake, but if you can provide a source I would be interested to see it.
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What are your favourite spiritual quotes?
I'm pretty sure your quote was a fake, but if you can provide a source I would be interested to see it.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
I suggest that you have posted a fake Buddha quote, and in retaliation you mock and criticise a genuine quote that I post. You really are pathetic.
My Holy Book is full of those really. But this is my most favorite:
"God does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes - from being righteous and kind toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, God loves those who act justly." (Quraan 60:8)
"God does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes - from being righteous and kind toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, God loves those who act justly." (Quraan 60:8)
godnotgod
Thou art That
Well, now, it is you, I am afraid, who is pathetic for assuming it to be fake, while ignoring what it actually says, which, it seems to me, you fail to fully comprehend. You want to flout your pedantry about the suttras, but if you truly understood the suttras, you would have no difficulty in understanding the simple quote I posted. Alas, you are a Legalist, who has a Black & White 'understanding' of the suttras, as evinced by your ignorance of the very suttra you tout so highly, but fail utterly to grasp, and that is the Heart Suttra. You also fail to understand that it matters little who the author of the quote is. I could actually claim authorship myself, but the content stands upon its own merit.
Now, do you wish to take a look at the moon the finger is pointing to, or do you still choose to rabidly attack the pointing finger?
And, oh yes, no, your post is not genuine at all, as its author doesn't know what he is saying. If you still think he does, then answer the question: 'where is this 'exhausted mind' that 'rests in peace'? This is a ridiculous statement. If anything, the state of peace is due to a refreshed consciousness, where mind is understood to be illusory, exactly why I responded with the short piece about Hui Neng.
An 'exhausted mind' is thoroughly frustrated, and knows no peace.
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godnotgod
Thou art That
Are you deaf? I already told you the source is no longer available to me. If you wish to research it, by all means, be my guest, but my point in posting the quote is about the CONTENT, and not about the source. If you understand the content, the source will become apparent to you, simply because, in this particular case, the Buddha nature is within everyone, and it is with that same Buddha nature that we recognize what is genuine and what is not.
godnotgod
Thou art That
I'm pretty sure my quote is genuine, but if you can provide a source to prove otherwise, I would be interested to see it.
Britedream
Active Member
Love whom ever you like, you will be apart. Live however long you might, you will die. Do whatever you want, you will be faced with.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
"Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha."
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Chah
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
"We are all collectively bonded to each other while on Earth, united in this one supreme purpose: to learn to love one another."
~ from "Embraced By The Light"
~ from "Embraced By The Light"
"Go home, have a beer and smash something. That’s what I would do." - Thor (probably).
"Let your mind be engrossed in Me. Offer worship to Me. Be resigned to Me. Beloved as you are of me, I pledge in truth you shall come to Me alone." - Bhagavad Gita 18:65
"Let your mind be engrossed in Me. Offer worship to Me. Be resigned to Me. Beloved as you are of me, I pledge in truth you shall come to Me alone." - Bhagavad Gita 18:65
Papoon
Active Member
Lama Tsongkhapa
The knowledge that appearances arise unfailingly in dependence, and the knowledge that they are empty and beyond all assertions—
As long as these two appear to you as separate,
there can be no realization of the Buddha’s wisdom.
Yet when they arise at once, not each in turn but both together, then through merely seeing unfailing dependent origination certainty is born, and all modes of misapprehension fall apart—
That is when discernment of the view has reached perfection.
The knowledge that appearances arise unfailingly in dependence, and the knowledge that they are empty and beyond all assertions—
As long as these two appear to you as separate,
there can be no realization of the Buddha’s wisdom.
Yet when they arise at once, not each in turn but both together, then through merely seeing unfailing dependent origination certainty is born, and all modes of misapprehension fall apart—
That is when discernment of the view has reached perfection.
Scuba Pete
Le plongeur avec attitude...
From the fifth chapter of Galatians:
The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
godnotgod
Thou art That
And God help those who get caught helping themselves.
They did get caught helping themselves to the Forbidden Fruit. But as it turned out, God wanted them to eat of it anyway. In fact, there was simply no way to avoid it. The 'Forbidden Fruit', it turns out, was the unconditional gift from God to man of Higher Consciousness.
DawudTalut
Peace be upon you.
Peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be on you.
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
The Buddhist meditation masters know how flexible and workable the mind is. If we train it, anything is possible. In fact, we are already perfectly trained by and for samsara, trained to get jealous, trained to grasp, trained to be anxious and sad and desperate and greedy, trained to react angrily to whatever provokes us. In fact, we are trained to such an extent that these negative emotions rise spontaneously, without our even trying to generate them.
So everything is a question of training and the power of habit. Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we’re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, the mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
So everything is a question of training and the power of habit. Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we’re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, the mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
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