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Posts tagged with "delusion"
Apr. 19 | We only need to let go
of the three poisons
of greed, hatred and delusion.
We only need to pick up
the three cures
of generosity, compassion and wisdom.
- Stonepeace
Feb. 27 | If you see one
as severely wicked,
it is easy to give rise to anger.
If you see the same person
as severely deluded,
it is easier to give rise to compassion.
- Stonepeace
Dec. 28 | When your mind is not clear…
you may well take a thief
to be your own child.
- The Buddha (Surangama Sutra)
When you practice meditation in stillness and enter samadhi, the essence of your mind merges with the Bodhisattvas of the ten directions...
Nov. 14 | Even if there are
unfavourable conditions,
the wise will improve them.
Even if there are
favourable conditions,
the deluded might worsen them.
- Stonepeace
Nov. 14 | Although the eyes can see,
they cannot see
how they might see wrongly.
May. 31 | If you live the sacred
and despise the ordinary,
you are still bobbing
in the ocean of delusion.
- Master Linchi (Rinzai)
Feb. 13 | Whether something that happens to you
is truly good or bad for you
depends on how you perceive the experience.
- Stonepeace
We often hear the utterance of the dreaded exclaimation, ‘Very bad karma!’ Sometimes, this is remarked in response...
Nov. 1 | To share absolute truths
with those who need relative truths
is to confuse instead of help.
To share relative truths
with those who need absolute truths
is to belittle instead of enlighten.
- Stonepeace
Relative truths refer to conventional realities...
Sep. 20 | The practice of all the bodhisattvas is never to entertain concepts,
which revolve around dualistic notions of perceiver and perceived,
in the knowledge that all these appearances are but the mind itself,
whilst mind’s own nature is forever beyond the...
Aug. 2 | True renunciation is
to let go of attachment, aversion and delusion;
not anything else.
- Stonepeace
The Buddha does not demand that everyone leave the household life for the monastery [to further facilitate spiritual cultivation] or ask his followers...
Aug. 2 | Paradoxically,
realisation of the unconditioned
requires many conditions.
- Stonepeace
When we speak of the word ‘enlightenment’, what might come to mind is the image of an electric bulb within suddenly switching on, illuminating the darkness...
Apr. 6 | The inner demon
you can’t name [recognise],
is the one you are tormented by.
~ Stonepeace
A toddler nephew is undergoing a strange yet understandable phase of growing up. Barely a month ago, his baby sister was born. Suddenly, his behaviour became...
Mar. 7 | Ignorance apprehends its object as if it exists purely objectively…
If phenomena in fact existed in this way…
then the more carefully one investigated them,
the more clearly those objects would appear to the mind.
However, the more closely...
Mar. 7 | If I only perceive things as I am
[according to my deluded perception],
how do I perceive things as they are?
By not using the illusory ‘I’ to perceive.
~ Stonepeace
Feb. 14 | The sage sees the delusions,
not the person with the delusions.
~ Aryadeva (Four Hundred Verses)
