Xangsamhua Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 A man was asked his occupation. "Farmer", he replied. "You don't look like a farmer", they said. "How much land do you have?" "Five and a half feet." They laughed. "How much can you raise in five and a half feet of land?" "This is very special soil," the man replied. "This body is my field. My thoughts and actions are the seeds, and karma, good and bad, is the harvest." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaowong1 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 If nibbana could be reached by endurance alone, chickens would be enlightened! - Ajahn Chah. I also remember reading another great Ajahn Chan saying. He was asked about the proper sitting posture. He said, if the sitting posture was the most important part of meditation, then all the frogs in the world would be enlightened.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camerata Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 "...the Buddha's teaching is pointing out things which are alwaysthere, but which perhaps we have not seen before." - Ajahn Viradhammo, Bringing the Teachings Alive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meadish_sweetball Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 When asked by a layman whether he made use of mind reading for teaching his students, Ajahn Chah replied: "Here at this monastery, we teach people to read their own minds." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xangsamhua Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 "Do not give attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do." Dhammapada, verse 50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lungmi Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Luang Pho Kumjon: A good fart gives freedom to your mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xangsamhua Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 It is easy to see the faults of others; we winnowthem like chaff. It is hard to see our own; wehide them as a gambler hides a losing draw.But when one keeps dwelling on the faultsof others, his own compulsions grow worse,making it harder to overcome them.Dhammapada 252-253 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camerata Posted June 19, 2013 Author Share Posted June 19, 2013 I have begun to describe Buddhism as nothing more than high-level addiction therapy, which I think describes it better than any other label. - Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/desire-brain-change-and-a-buddhist-take-on-addiction/#comment-2346 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camerata Posted July 1, 2013 Author Share Posted July 1, 2013 We learn to listen to the beliefs of others with patience and goodwill. We express appreciation for those teachings in harmony with the Dhamma, and keep a polite silence about those in conflict with it. If the person we are speaking to is genuinely interested in our opinion, we express our own views with humility.As Buddhists we don't want to convert anybody to our religion. What we do want is to support kindness, integrity and wisdom in whatever religious form they appear.Ajahn Jayasaro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lungmi Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 "Every morning, when you wake up, you have to give an answer to the most important question of life: I stand up, say yes to life (Dhamma) or I lay down with delusion waiting for superstitious rescue." Jiradhammo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB87 Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 For in craving pleasure or in nursing pain. There is only sorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lungmi Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 - What is the sense of life? - Sorry, I have to go to toilet.. Zen Master Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PimonratC Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 http://atenlightenment.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/what-will-you-bring-more/ What will you bring more if you die tomorrow?…Everything you had, passed by,and struggled for…It was just… . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckysmile Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Hi all, I wouldn't say that I am Buddhist bit I do like some of the ideas and I don't have a quote for you , sorry but was after some information on the Buddhist meditation place in benjakiti park please. Peace Sent from my HTC_PN071 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabaijai Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 The Guest House This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. --Rumi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchguest Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said."You can never...""You lie!" he cried,And ran on.Stephen Crane has written these beautiful lines that give a description of the functioning of the mind chasing illusions.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Crane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchguest Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 "For hate is never conquered by hate. Hate is conquered by love. This is an eternal law.” Lord Buddha the quote comes from this http://www.poetseers.org website which offers a rich diversity of more or less wise sayings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camerata Posted April 21, 2014 Author Share Posted April 21, 2014 When there is no ego or selfishness, there is nothing that will destroy nature, nothing that will exploit and abuse nature. Then the external, physical aspect of nature will be able to conserve itself automatically. — Buddhadasa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabaijai Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality. ~ Socrates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camerata Posted July 24, 2015 Author Share Posted July 24, 2015 Gautama developed a set of meditation techniques that train the mind to experience reality as it is, without craving. These practices train the mind to focus all its attention on the question, ‘What am I experiencing now?’ rather than on ‘What would I rather be experiencing?’ It is difficult to achieve this state of mind, but not impossible. - Yuval Noah Harari, "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camerata Posted September 5, 2015 Author Share Posted September 5, 2015 It is common for us to focus too much on what make us different from each other. This over-emphasis leads to arrogance and insecurities, prejudice and fear. As Buddhist we seek to prevent this imbalance by constantly returning to an awareness of those things that unite us all. We reflect on the simple indisputable truth that everyone of us are companions in birth, old age, sickness and death. Everybody wants to be happy. Nobdy wants to suffer. We don't deny differences or ignore them. But we recognize them within the context of our shared nature as sentient beings in a challenging and fragile world. - Ajahn Jayasaro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camerata Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share Posted December 14, 2015 "From my own experiences in the military I know that having a sense of personal integrity is very important. Even though I can recognize primordial drives and tendencies, what is even stronger with me is an aspiration for something higher than that. Within the human state there is also something that aspires. We intuitively know that there is some higher purpose that we can realize in ourselves. That is what religion is about and why human beings have created it. Religion is the attempt to express that intuitive feeling, the mystical sense or aspiration. And yet in a moment we can revert back to primordial behaviour. The conditions are there if we are not aware." - "Instinct and Aspiration", in Anthology Vol 5 - The Wheel of Truth by Ajahn Sumedho Freely downloadable eBooks by Ajahn Sumedho:http://forestsanghapublications.org/viewAuthor.php?id=9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camerata Posted February 18, 2016 Author Share Posted February 18, 2016 Whenever illnesses arise, those who know see nothing strange about it. Getting born into this world entails experiencing illness. However, even the Buddha and the Noble Ones, contracting illness in the course of things, would also, in the course of things, treat it with medicine. For them it was simply a matter of correcting the elements. They didn't blindly cling to the body or grasp at mystic ceremonies and such. They treated illnesses with right view, they didn't treat them with delusion. ''If it heals, it heals, if it doesn't then it doesn't'' - that's how they saw things.- Ajahn Chah -“Transcendence" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacky54 Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 I have begun to describe Buddhism as nothing more than high-level addiction therapy, which I think describes it better than any other label. - Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu http://www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/connect/desire-brain-change-and-a-buddhist-take-on-addiction/#comment-2346 Spot on as we have seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusion58 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Contemplate the five skandhas as originally empty and quiescent, non-arising, non-perishing, equal, without differentiation. Constantly thus practicing, day or night, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down, finally one reaches an inconceivable state without any obstruction or form. This is the Samadhi of One Act (yixing sanmei, 一行三昧) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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