人間 사람 사이

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Sandalwood, tagara,
lotus, & jasmine:
Among these scents,
The scent of virtue
Is unsurpassed.

Next to nothing, this fragrance
--sandalwood, tagara—
while the scent of the virtuous
wafts to the gods, supreme.

-Dhammapada, 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Real Love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case,

your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering

as long as beings continue to suffer.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Riches ruin the man
weak in discernment,
but not those who seek
the beyond.

Through craving for riches
the man weak in discernment
ruins himself
as he would others.

-Dhammapada, 24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Real peace will arise spontaneously
When your mind becomes free
Of attachments,
When you know that the objects of the world
Can never give you what you really want.

-Theragatha

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our mind and our delusions are formless and colorless.

However, our ignorance believing in true existence is harder than a rocky mountain. Our delusions are harder than steel.

-Lama Zopa Rinpoche, "The Door to Satisfaction"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into,

if you keep strong and hold out,

eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

-Dogen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In becoming an enlightened being, this does not destroy the living being,

or take it away, or lose it; nevertheless, it does mean having shed it.

-Dogen, "Rational Zen"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once you realize universal emptiness, all objects are spontaneously penetrated:

 integrating the world and beyond, it contains all states of being within.

If you lose the essence, there is nothing after all;

if you attain the function, there is spiritual effect.

The genuine path of unminding is not a religion for the immature.

-Fen-yang

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent.

On the contrary,

it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding

the real causes of happiness and fulfillment,

and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.

-Kathleen McDonald, "How to Meditate"

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

No village law, no law of market town,
No law of a single house is this—
Of all the world and the worlds of gods
This only is the Law, that all things are impermanent.

-"Buddhist Parables"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's no trail in space,
no outside contemplative.
People are smitten
with complications,
but devoid of complication are
the Tathagatas.

There's no trail in space,
no outside contemplative,
no eternal fabrications,
no wavering in the Awakened.

-Dhammapada, 254-255

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When subjective feelings arrange your effort,

and activity is obsessed with objects,

the matter of your self is neglected;

not believing in true universal knowledge in oneself,

you'll never attain true awakening.

-Chen-ching

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Having slain anger, one sleeps soundly;
Having slain anger, one does not sorrow;
The killing of anger,
With its poisoned root and honeyed tip:
This is the killing the noble ones praise,
For having slain that, one does not sorrow.

-Buddha, "The Connected Discourses of the Buddha"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The one whose mind knows the clarity of perfect wisdom is

never afraid or even anxious. Why?

Because when being at one with the living power of wisdom,

the mother of all the buddhas,

that person has the strength to remain in a state of undivided contemplation

even while ceaselessly and skillfully engaging in compassionate action.

The wise one is enabled to act because of concentration on a single prayer:

"May all beings never leave the path of enlightenment,

which is their own true nature and is empty of separate self-existence."

-Prajnaparamita

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you contemplate the body by being within the body,

you should not engage in all sorts of ideas about it;

the same when you contemplate feelings by being within feelings,

you should enter in without ideas;

the same applies to contemplating the mind by being within the mind

and contemplating thoughts by being within thoughts.

The thoughts should be just the objects of mind

and you should not apply yourself to any train of ideas connected with them.

In this way, by putting ideas aside,

your mind will become tranquil and fixed on one point.

It will then enter into a meditation that is without discursive thought

and is rapturous and joyful.

-Majjhima Nikaya

 

 

 

 

 

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Leaves in the Wind

by Ernesto Cortazar