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Posts tagged with "attachment"
Apr. 25 |
Great Master Hongyi’s (弘一大师) ex-wife was reluctant to let go of him, and was puzzled by the nature of love. She thus asked him – ‘Please tell me, what is love?’ (请告诉我,什么叫爱?) If she really loved him, how could she let...
Apr. 13 | If you scratch an itch, it feel good,
but it feels even better not to have an itch at all.
So too, one is happy in obtaining worldly desires,
but there is greater happiness in having no desires at all.
– Precious Garland Of Advice To A King (Verse 169)
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Mar. 8 |
爱不重,
不生娑婆。
念不一,
不生极乐。
– 杨次公 (宋)
(If greedy) attachment is not heavy,
there will not be birth in this Saha World.
If mindfulness (of Amituofo) is not wholehearted,
there will not be birth in (his Pure Land...
Jan. 24 |
见无忧林,
当愿众生,
永离贪爱,
不生忧怖。
– 文殊菩萨
(华严经: 净行品: 第76偈)
Seeing groves [with trees named] ‘without sorrow’,*
[reflect that] ‘May sentient beings,
forever depart [from] greedy attachment,
[to]...
Jan. 17 |
见修园圃,
当愿众生,
五欲圃中,
耘除爱草。
– 文殊菩萨
(华严经: 净行品: 第75偈)
Seeing cultivation of garden plots,
[reflect that] ‘May sentient beings,
within the five desires’* garden,
weed [to] eradicate...
Dec. 13 |
色不异空;
空不异色;
色即是空;
空即是色。
– 观世音菩萨 (心经)
Form is not different from emptiness;
emptiness is not different from form;
form is the same as emptiness;
emptiness is the same as form.
– Guanshiyin...
Sep. 13 |
Question: Is it alright to matchmake good friends who are good in character?
Answer: It does not accord with a Bodhisattva Precept in the Brahma Net Sutra to do matchmaking – as it facilitates the perpetuation of Samsara by encouraging attachment....
Jun. 28 | It is not so much
of what you see
but more of how you see
that decides what is seen.
– Stonepeace | Books
A Zen master asked his disciples: ‘How should you confront feminine [or masculine] attraction?’ The first disciple replied: ‘I...
Jun. 2 |
Though you become famous and many bow to you,
And you gain riches to equal Vaishravana’s [a wealth deity],
See that worldly fortune is without essence,
And be unconceited –
This is the practice of bodhisattvas.
– 37 Practices Of Bodhisattvas:...
May. 27 |
A good mirror helps us
to see things as they are.
A poor mirror ‘helps’ us
to distort things from what they are.
– Stonepeace | Books
Enlightened minds work like perfect mirrors.
What encountered is simply reflected as they are,
without...
May. 18 |
Do you ever notice that when you’re driving…
Everyone going slower than you is an idiot…
Everyone driving faster than you is a maniac?
– Simple Town Comic
In ‘Demetri Martin: Live (At The Time)‘, he shared this joke – ‘One...
May. 18 | To the truly foolish,
the wise are foolish.
To the truly wise,
the foolish are foolish.
– Stonepeace | Books
XI
I see a lot of silly folks
who claim their own small spine’s
Sumeru, the sacred mountain
that supports the world.*
Piss ants, gnawing...
May. 11 | To think you can
‘have and hold’ the worldly
is to ‘have and hold’ delusion.
– Stonepeace | Books
Once, when the Layman was on his way to sell his bamboo baskets, he stumbled and fell while crossing over a bridge. When Ling-chao...
Mar. 22 | The path to full enlightenment
is to learn how to love all beings fully,
with full compassion and wisdom.
– Stonepeace | Books
Ordinary love is based and mixed with attachment. Like other afflicted emotions, attachment is based not on reality but...
Jan. 5 |
Question: Letting go of attachment is good, but I am disturbed by how a family member developed the habit of throwing away things, which include family items in a brutal and self-righteous way. Surely this is not how Buddhism teaches letting go? The...