Death overtakes the man who, giddy and distracted by the world, cares only for his flock and his children. Death fetches him away as a flood carries off a sleeping village.
Tag Archives: Buddha
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May
May
Look within—the rising and the falling. What happiness! How sweet to be free. Buddha brings a totally new vision of meditation to the world.
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Dec
Dec
Do what you have to do resolutely, with all your heart. The traveler who hesitates only raises dust on the road.
07
Dec
Dec
Master your words. Ordinarily a mind is full of words—relevant, irrelevant, rubbish; all kinds of words go on gathering inside you.
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Oct
Oct
Quietly consider what is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, without haste, wisely, observe the law.
12
Oct
Oct
If you are happy at the expense of another man’s happiness, you are forever bound.
Master your thoughts. Any thought goes on inside your mind. Watch for a few minutes and you will be surprised: the mind seems to be crazy! It jumps from one thought to another thought for no reason at all.
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Aug
Aug
Be quiet, and loving and fearless. Three things Buddha says: Be quiet—learn to be silent more and more—and loving, because if your silence is not loving it will make you insensitive. Then your silence will be that of a cemetery—dull, dead.
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Aug
Aug
Zazen means just sitting doing nothing. The first thing to do is learn sitting, a deep restfulness. Become a pool of rest, not even ripples of desire, going nowhere, no ambition—not even for God, not even for nirvana.
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Jul
Jul
Quieten your mind. Reflect. Watch. Try to quieten your mind, reflect, watch, and see yourself what happens: freedom, bliss, truth, wisdom, innocence, purity…