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Posts tagged with "attachment"
Mar. 30 | Impermanence is not just
about the end of all things,
but their renewal too.
- Stonepeace (Get Books)
Having learnt about the truth of impermanence of all things material in this life, of the value of living with more contentment and less excesses, and...
Mar. 30 | Not being attached to one’s suffering
by realisation of its unsubstantiality
to liberate oneself is wisdom.
Not being attached to one’s liberation
by realisation of its ungraspability
to liberate others is compassion.
- Stonepeace (Get Books)
Oct. 25 | Question: I’m new to Buddhism. When I talk to my friends about what I have learnt from the Dharma classes I’m attending currently, they look at me as if I’m turning into a nun the next day. One of them even said I’m too obsessed...
Oct. 12 | External beauty is only skin deep
and the skin is not very deep.
- Stonepeace
From the Therigatha,
‘Verses of the Elder [Buddhist] Nuns’,
the world’s earliest collection of poetry by women,
is a dramatic incident,
that almost climaxed...
Sep. 20 | Only when pining to hear
Or swarmed with thoughts
Is silence deafening.
(If there is no awareness
of what you crave for
and you already cling to,
there will be no peace of mind.)
Aug. 30 | The simplest spiritual joy
begins with recognition
and rejoice of the worthy.
- Stonepeace
In the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, the Buddha was recorded to have remarked, ‘Pleasant, Ananda, is Vesali; pleasant are the shrines of Udena, Gotamaka, Sattambaka,...
Aug. 10 | Question: I came across this in a Dharma book - ‘Great Bodhisattvas do not think they have anything specific to accomplish. They do not have the idea that they must help sentient beings; rather, they naturally respond to others…’ Does this...
Apr. 4 | 过去心不可得，
现在心不可得，
未来心不可得。
- 金刚经
The past mind cannot be grasped,
The present mind cannot be grasped,
The future mind cannot be grasped.
- Diamond Sutra (The Buddha)
The past is empty of fixed aggregates
(of...
Feb. 15 | There is pleasure when an itch is scratched,
But to be without an itch is more pleasurable still;
There are pleasures in worldly desires,
But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
- Nagarjuna (Ratanvalli)
Dec. 14 | To fully recognise suffering
is to fully begin the path
to fully transcend suffering.
- Stonepeace
The practice here is to meditate on the three expressions of suffering and to experience their nature. The Buddha said there is one word that can describe...
Nov. 7 | The Great Way is broad,
Neither easy nor difficult.
With narrow views and doubts,
Haste will slow you down.
Attach to it and you lose the measure;
The mind will enter a deviant path.
Let it go and be spontaneous,
Experience no going or staying.
- Seng...
Oct. 31 | Perfect attainment
of the fruit of enlightenment
is non-attainment of anything.
- Surangama Sutra
[Perfect enlightenment is non-attachment to everything, while functioning with perfect compassion and wisdom naturally for everyone, as it realises that...
Oct. 19 | Of all attachments and desires, none is more extreme than lust.
With lust as a desire, its greatness has no other,
Fortunately, there is only one [of its kind]!
If there are two similar desires,
of all humans under the heavens [in the world],
no one...
Oct. 3 | To not regret
over the regretable
is regretable.
- Stonepeace
On one occasion this [elderly] monk asked the Dalai Lama for initiation into a particular set of demanding practices. The Dalai Lama demurred, saying that they were meant for younger monks,...
Aug. 31 | If even no two snowflakes are exactly the same due to countless combinations of different environmental conditions, can there ever be perfect clones of anyone? Not likely at all. Even if you can physically clone someone, with the person’s genetic...
