Quietly consider what is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, without haste, wisely, observe the law.
Tag Archives: happiness mantra
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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.
10
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.
02
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…
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Jun
Jun
Do not turn away what is given you, nor reach away what is given to others, lest you disturb your quietness.
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Jun
Jun
O slave of desire, float upon the steam. Little spider, stick to your web, or else abandon your sorrows for the way.
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Jun
Jun
In all things, be a master of what you do and what you say and think. Be free.
11
Jun
Jun
It is sweet to live arduously, and to master yourself.