Buddhist Wisdom

The Buddha was asked: "To what extent can a person be a speaker of the way?" He answered: "If a person teaches the way in order to transcend the tyranny of material things and to teach how to transcend feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness--teaching nonattachment with regard to these--then that person can be called a speaker of the way. If he is himself trying to transcend the pull of the material world and to feel nonattachment toward it, then it is fitting to say he is living in accordance with the way. If he is liberated by this transcendence and nonattachment, then you can say he has found nirvana here and now.

- Samyutta Nikaya

To learn the path

To learn the path it is important to be sharp yet inconspicuous. When you are sharp, you are not confused by people; when you are inconspicuous, you don't contend with people. Not being confused by people, you are empty and spiritual; not contending with people, you are serene and subtle.

Liao-an

Spiritual Wisdom

"I am not, I will not be. I have not, I will not have." That frightens all the childish And extinguishes fear in the wise.

- Nagarjuna

Friday Meditation Thought by Lao Tzu

I am hesitant, and I move alertly in life because I don't know what is going to happen.
And I don't have any principle to follow.
I have to decide every moment.
I never decide beforehand.
I have to decide when the moment comes!

Lao Tzu

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Wednesday Meditation Thought by Rumi

Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer
or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest
even in his own personality:
He's free.

Rumi

Eckhart Tolle is considered one of the world's most influential spiritual teachers - a master of inner calm and peace. In a nutshell, he teaches that you are not your mind. In fact, Eckhart says, your mind is your worst enemy. It overtakes the real you and creates thoughts that make you miserable. So if you want to achieve peace, you've got to disassociate yourself from your mind. The key ? Live in the present.

Monday Meditation Thought by Shoseki

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.

-- Shoseki

Introduction to Zen Meditation: The Still Point

Friday Meditation Thought

The enlightened mind is like an unceasing flow
and has no fixed abode.
It does not identify itself with things
and therefore there is no attachment.
Such a mind is a liberated mind.

Huineng

Wednesday Meditation Thought

Under blue sky, in bright sunlight, one need not search around.
Asking what Buddha is is like hiding loot in one's pocket and
declaring oneself innocent.

Zen

Monday Meditation Thought

Pick up a flower in a field
and you may disturb a star in the sky.
All is interconnected.
Nothing is separate.
Everything has its place, its function.
Nothing is here for nothing.
Be aware.

Dharma

Spiritual Wisdom

When they lose their sense of awe,
people turn to religion.
When they no longer trust themselves
they begin to depend upon authority.
Therefore the Master steps back
so that people won't be confused.
He teaches without a teaching,
so that people will have nothing to learn.

Lao Tzu

Tai Chi

Tai chi chuan is a Chinese martial art often practiced for health reasons. Tai chi is typically practiced for a variety of other personal reasons: its hard and soft martial art technique, demonstration competitions, health and longevity. Consequently, a multitude of training forms exist, both traditional and modern, which correspond to those aims. Some of tai chi chuan's training forms are well known to Westerners as the slow motion routines that groups of people practice together every morning in parks around the world, particularly in China.

Today, tai chi has spread worldwide.

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Meditation Tip

Meditation is first learning how just to be, secondly learning through your daily actions to keep yourself centered.

Dharma

Meditation Thought on Fear

Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

- Tao Te Ching

Awakening to Deep Time

When we become aware of the vastness of the entire evolutionary process—from the big bang to the present moment—that is called awakening to Deep Time. It means having the capacity to assume a perspective that is nothing less than cosmic and being able to see whatever’s happening to us personally from its lofty vantage point. It is also the profound recognition that our very own present-day highly evolved capacity for consciousness, cognition, introspection, compassion, empathy, and even spiritual insight has all been produced by this deep-time developmental process. This means so much! It means that our personal experience is not half as personal as it seems to be. It also means something that is so startling it is hard to let in. It means that human beings, because of our highly developed brains, are the very leading edge of the entire panoramic unfolding. And as far as we know, we are the only life-form in this vast process that has gained the capacity for self-reflective awareness. The personal implications inherent in this truth are enormous. When we ask the question “Who am I?” from the perspective of cosmic evolution, the answer comes back: “I am the universe becoming aware of itself in human form.”

Andrew Cohen

Meditation Thought

Due to having many parts there is no unity, There is not anything without parts. Further, without one, there is not many. Also, without existence there is no non-existence.

- Nagarjuna

Meditation Thought

If one does not think about right and wrong,
then the mind is naturally at ease.
If one has no thought of peace of mind,
that is true peace.

Chuang Tzu