Things are loved and people are used. Aphorisms. His lessons of goodness and light are followed by millions of people who have realized that there is nothing more important than peace and tranquility in the soul.
What we are today is a consequence of our yesterday's thoughts, and today's thoughts create tomorrow's life. Life is a creation of our mind.
People were made to be loved, and things were made to be used. The world is in chaos because everything is the opposite.
It is impossible for someone else to do the work and you reap the rewards. Reading books about someone spiritual development will not give you insight into it. You must improve yourself.
The people who are most suited for spiritual practice are people who are not only intellectually gifted, but also have one-pointed faith and devotion, and are certainly wise. Such people are most receptive to spiritual practice. In second place are those who, even if they cannot boast of high intellectual abilities but in whom there is a solid, like a stone, foundation of faith. The least lucky are those who fall into the third category. These are people who are extremely intellectually developed, but constantly torn apart by doubts and skepticism. They are smart, but every now and then they fall into the trap of skepticism and internal fluctuations and cannot find a foothold in any way. Such people are the least susceptible.
Sando Kaisen
Only a courageous person can practice Zen.
This is the road of a warrior, whose eyes are always open and attention is sharpened. So in Zen we don't seek love, wisdom, or peace. These three treasures we own within ourselves.
Geshe Lamzang
To find out who you were in a past life, look in the mirror.
To find out who you will be in the next - understand your thoughts.
It is easy to understand what Great Compassion is, but it is extremely difficult to realize it.
Emptiness - on the contrary, it is very simple to implement it, but it is not easy to understand it.
If you clean your home exclusively for the arrival of guests, this means that you lack sincerity.
Thien Dhuyen
Don't exhaust yourself. Fill every cell of your body with bliss.
Closing your eyes and being silent is the privilege of a person.
He who fears the height of the spirit is not worthy of it.
A sincere smile is a manifestation of light.
Fill yourself with light and the place where you are will become a place of power for you.
Where a person is located physically is not so important. In what spiritual realms he lives - that's what is of decisive importance.
When understanding comes, strength is no longer needed.
Kindred spirits speak silently. Aliens, even uttering words, are silent.
Keep a smile in your heart - this is the magic of life.
Everything has a reason, but not the present moment.
Normal inhale, normal exhale. If a person saw, he will not return.
To exalt one and belittle the other is a clouding of consciousness.
Any speech is only a manifestation of vulnerability ...
God created the World, reason created God.
A man will never see his own death. Consciousness is infinite.
When we come to understand that death is inevitable, the forceps of the mind loosen their grip. Beliefs are as useless as their absence.
People think that there is what is and something else, hidden: knowledge, secrets. They do not understand that, what is and is an obstacle and you need to get rid of it once and for all.
An egoist is like a cancer cell that works only for absorption, thereby spoiling the world around him.
Satisfying egoism is a way to waste your vital, spiritual forces. The complete degradation of man.
If you don't live spiritually, you will gradually lose everything. You will be tired and angry. Envy and be nervous for any reason. Light is total surrender. Selfishness stinks.
If we criticize the situation we are in, if we say it would be like this, or like this, it means that we still do not understand anything.
Our energy soars upward to become high spirituality. But we cut it down with business, politics and pleasure, and then we don’t understand where the depression comes from.
The best incense is pure air.
Vice and purity nestle in selfishness.
Energy and purity of spirit are stronger than reasoning.
There are no dragons in dirty water.
The weak will always justify their weakness, the strong will get involved in an unnecessary fight.
We are all orphans, we wander, play and dodge, steal and lie. They forgot the mother, the damp earth and the heavenly father.
Buddha is the enlightened one. Soaked in light. There is a person and light, there is no need for intermediaries in the form of traditions, words and idols.
A joyful mind, a caring mind, an all-encompassing mind. All this is the mind and there is no darkness in it.
You can be collected, aggressive, malleable or calculating. All these qualities separate and only tenderness unites and naturally passes into the very depths of the process.
Only a man without a brain can live without a heart. Also, be mentally stable.
The one who is provided with everything develops a thirst to satisfy artificial needs. That is why the law of Dharma is violated.
If your thoughts are noble, they evoke a response in the minds of people close to you in spirit. Low thoughts spoil everything.
Our body is our mind. Consciousness creates the body from thoughts about it. Thought can change almost everything in the body.
Everything dies. The body will decompose, only karma will remain.
Manage your thoughts. Become a witness to your own thoughts. Rise above your thoughts.
A noble thought is a counteraction to a base vicious thought.
Fear arises from the feeling of inevitability, the inevitability of retribution.
Everything converges. Absolutely everything fits. There is nothing separate. Everything is intact, not torn, not torn, not torn. Nirvana…
There is no yesterday and no tomorrow, there is the true greatness of Zen!
Overflowing with passions and ideas, the brain destroys the body. In this state of affairs, vegetarianism and compassion for all living things are unattainable. He who destroys himself destroys others.
Compassion for all living things, save life! Don't deceive your heart!
You have to trust the world and people. If you feel insincerity or deceit, believe it anyway.
How little we need to be happy and how difficult it is, in fact, to understand!
The huge oak was once a small sprout.
And even now, when it is huge, the shoots on its branches are young and tender.
It is very important for a person to protect himself from his brain.
Shoots can only be young and tender...
Breathing is completely gone and the heart is not audible.
There is no body at all, but as soon as you move, winter and frost will immediately begin to act.
So you sit for a very long time and the cold does not see that you are.
It is not easy to live in any society, in any country. If we are not careful, then we can break away from life, and breaking away from life, we are no longer able to help make the people around us happier, which means we will not receive the energy of happiness from them, and we will suffer from this ourselves. The separation from life that I am talking about does not occur with meditating people, the separation occurs with people who, being in the very thick of social life, pursue only their own selfish goals.
At modern man there is no habit of returning to ourselves, and we always act as if we are enemies to ourselves and are trying to escape from ourselves. This is a deep-rooted delusion, or even a complete misunderstanding of how a person and the world around him works. Suffering, lack of joy and bliss in every minute of life has become the norm.
If your mind is busy chasing a mirage, it is unlikely that high and noble thoughts will come to your mind at this moment. It's hard to argue with that. Either we are in a pursuit that does not end, or we are inside ourselves, in silence, at a constant source of potential.
When you are alone for several years, there is practically no need to sit down and penetrate into the whirlwind of thoughts and images. There is no need for sitting meditation. It is clear that when a person does not communicate with anyone, his mind becomes completely independent, no one and nothing influences him, and the inner light begins to shine through.
Until recently, snowflakes were spinning in the air, and now tulips. How quickly things change. Great vibration. Every person, even a villain, is enlightened on the path of development.
An ordinary flower in the very center of a huge city. Take a look at him. He is so meek, radiates peace and perfection.
Mentally renounce the world, but bodily remain in it to act.
When the meditation mat is not occupied by anyone, there is still someone sitting there.
Words, like a photograph of a sea wave, have nothing to do with permanence.
The lack of modesty and compassion in a person is a real prison.
Thoughts, images and feelings melted away, the world and I immediately disappeared.
Oh reality, harmony without end and edge. Words are powerless. An individual is not needed.
Buddhism is a great teaching, not subject to disappearance and systematization.
True Buddhism cannot have political and ethnic overtones.
The state of enlightenment is always present in every living being.
The Buddha's teaching recognizes the limitless hidden opportunities the person himself and explains that salvation is in your hands.
The idea of something higher exists as long as there is no immersion in the inner space and non-duality is comprehended.
A person can always leave. The whole world will remain, but man is no more. Events and phenomena flow and take place, but there are no voids where someone was.
It is possible and necessary to achieve liberation from suffering, but in order to achieve this, it is necessary to understand emptiness as a spiritual reality. The way to understand emptiness is to observe what is in the world of phenomena. When we observe, we find that nothing remains the same: everything is fleeting and ephemeral, nothing is permanent and immortal.
An icy, piercing wind keeps us warm. Poor food makes us stronger. Need is a great seasoning for practice. If you hide from the cold, follow the vitamins and fight for prosperity, you will get a pampered body, a destroyed psyche and a lack of friends.
Cold, hunger, want and loneliness are the main guides.
Every practitioner knows about them from his own experience.
The blessings of civilization and a well-fed life disfigure a person, turn him into a swollen, weak-willed creature.
Patience is beautiful!
It is impossible to divide the universe.
Buddhist world and non-Buddhist world, Buddhist countries and non-Buddhist.
Emptiness is the basis of any form, each one is reborn many times.
A weak body and lack of will is what separates us from awakening.
“Strength without effort” appears when we are driven by love in our actions, because everything in nature is united by the energy of love. If we seek power and the opportunity to control other people, we irrevocably waste our energy.
Humility comes before glory.
Selfishness, pride - this is the way to fall.
Power and acquisitions do not belong to a tyrant.
And therefore he is infringed and loses his spiritual strength.
The fall pushes him to torture his neighbors.
Now it's dewdrops
then there are clouds
then it's rain
further down the river...
How simple and natural it is. But how hidden and obvious reasons interfere with this process.
A person cannot perform surgery on his own brain.
If a person does not admit and hides his imperfection from himself, then over time the armor around him becomes thicker and thicker, and nothing can break through it. Over time, the heart of such a person becomes callous, he ceases to be sincerely happy or truly sad. In such cases, it is very difficult to return a person to a full life.
The master should never stop in his development. It is very important, using your skill, to take care of others. As my teacher Zien said: “Light the light in yourself, help light the other”.
Mastery is beyond any meaning created by the mind.
spiritual fall worse than physical death. After death, there will be a new body and you can develop further. Spiritual fall even during this life calls into question any development.
We have forgotten our hearts and that is why our minds are so busy. Every second we turn heaven into hell.
A look without love is the look of a weakly seeing person, such a look does not reach the essence.
In a state of deep meditation, a huge flame arises, this flame burns everything. All our feelings, ideas, hopes, aspirations, weaknesses and mental constructions. We realize with great joy that all this is not ourselves, this is all the magic, all the power of meditation.
Continue to sit, be persistent, and the stomach will begin to devour the Universe created by the mind.
In Zen meditation, we do not separate ourselves from the environment and do not indulge in dreams. The world is part of our practice.
"One life - one mantra." What a great principle; thoughts, emotions and feelings helplessly drown in it.
Daito Kokushi
Buddhas and Patriarchs
When meeting the head from the shoulders!
Always ready
Hold your sharpened sword!
wheel of law
Revolves for a reason -
Chu! Grinding his teeth
Great void!
Tulku Rinpoche Jamyng Wangpo
There are many reasons for death, there are several reasons for life, but they can also become causes of death.
Kodo Sawaki Roshi
The practice of Zen means to fully fill the present moment. Don't lose sight of this day, don't lose sight of this place, don't lose sight of this moment, don't lose sight of yourself. Live your life with both feet firmly on the ground. You must live your life in a way that allows you to be completely satisfied, even if you now run out of air and fall dead.
The more you are occupied with your mind of a monkey and the will of a horse, the more they jump around and laugh at you. You can practice zazen, recite the name of Amitaba Buddha, follow all the rules very strictly, you can wait until you are old: But you will never get rid of illusions. No matter how desperately you try to destroy your illusions, you will not achieve a state of no-thinking or no-mind, but only drive yourself mad.
It is strange that not a single person in the world seriously thinks about his own life. For an infinitely long time we have been carrying something in us that has not yet been brewed. But we console ourselves with the fact that others are the same: I call this "crowd madness". We think we just have to be like the others. Satori means creating your own life. It means waking up from the madness of the crowd.
You yourself constantly let something dangle in front of your nose: The products of your consciousness. Stop these stupid games. You must one day completely go beyond your limits and look at yourself through the eyes of the world. Look at yourself through the eyes of a mountain: the mountain does not praise you, the mountain does not scold you, and it does not stick out its tongue at you.
Master Won Hye
The one who breaks the commandments And at the same time wants to help others, Is like a bird with broken wings, Which has put a tortoise on its back and tries to fly.
A hundred years pass in the blink of an eye, Why don't you practice? Is your life so long That you can afford to neglect practice Wasting time in idleness?
Song Sa Nim
The mouse ran into the hole, but the cat waits outside for hours without the slightest movement. He is completely focused on the mouse hole. This Zen mind means to drop all thinking and direct all your energy to one point.
Gwang-Dok Sunim
take care of people so that they develop, so that they are happy. The one who, instead of giving love, expects it, constantly feels his infringement.
Shen Yang
By practicing Zen we can eliminate the "I"; not only the selfish, small "I", but also the big "I", which in philosophy is called "Truth" or "Essence". Only then is freedom complete.
Lao Tzu
Be the last. Walk the world as if you don't exist. Don't be competent, don't try to prove your worth - you don't have to. Stay useless and enjoy. You judge people by their usefulness. I'm not saying that you shouldn't do anything useful. Do useful things, but remember that the real and greatest experience of life and ecstasy come from doing the useless. It comes through poetry, painting, love, meditation. The greatest joy will fill you only if you are able to make something that cannot be reduced to a commodity. The reward is spiritual, internal, it is manifested by energy. So, if you feel useless, don't worry. You can become a huge tree with a big crown. And people who have entered into useful activity ... they need to sometimes rest in the shade
Takuan Soho
Supposedly, as a martial artist, I don't fight to gain or lose, I'm not preoccupied with strength or weakness, I don't take a single step forward and I don't retreat a single step back. The enemy does not see me. I don't see the enemy. Penetrating where heaven and earth have not yet separated, where Yin and Yang have not yet arisen, I reach the goal quickly and inevitably.
Seeing something in front of you and not letting your attention focus on it is what steadfastness is. After all, as soon as the mind has stopped, thoughts are born, and chaos reigns in the mind. When the chaos dissipates and thoughts disappear, the mind that has stopped moving again, but at the same time remains at rest.
Nguyen Trung Hoa
Who does not know and does not understand the ideas of the Buddha, he is not able to comprehend the most important thing in martial arts.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Keep your intellect under control, and in your mind do not draw conclusions about anyone and do not label anyone. This world is like water, and the mind of any person is also like water. There are no steady waves, unlike water. Waves rise in the water and calm down again. Yesterday's wave of today no longer, but today will not be tomorrow. In the same way, every second people's minds, their feelings, their actions, their personalities, everything is constantly changing. Understand this truth.
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20 lessons from the life of the Dalai Lama - Be kind whenever possible. And this is always possible. The Dalai Lama – spiritual leader Tibetan people and this tradition goes back to 1391. Tibetans believe that their spiritual mentor is reborn in different guises, keeping the wisdom of the ages.
The current 14th Dalai Lama is Danjing Jamtso. He survived many trials during the invasion of Chinese troops into the territory of Tibet and dreams of creating a zone of peace and non-violence, harmony between man and nature on the territory of his country. In 1989 he was awarded Nobel Prize for a plan to restore peace and human rights in Tibet.
His lessons of goodness and light are followed by millions of people who have realized that there is nothing more important than peace and tranquility in the soul:
Every morning, when you wake up, start by thinking: “Today I was lucky - I woke up. I'm alive, I have this precious human life, and I won't waste it."
People were made to be loved, and things were made to be used. The world is in chaos because everything is the opposite.
Remember that not always what you want is what you really need.
- Be kinder whenever possible. And it's always possible.
Prosperity comes from action, not prayer.
If God wants to make you happy, then he leads you on the most difficult path, because there are no easy paths to happiness.
Arrogance is never justified. It comes from low self-esteem or temporary, superficial achievements.
The theme of compassion has nothing to do with religion. This is a universal cause, a single condition for the survival of the human race.
- If you can help, help. If not, at least do no harm.
I don't celebrate birthdays. For me, this day is no different. In a way, every day is a birthday. You wake up in the morning, everything is fresh and new, and the main thing is that this new day brings you something important.
The purpose of our life is to become happy.
Maintaining a positive attitude towards life, you can be happy even in the most adverse conditions.
Our enemies give us a golden opportunity to practice patience, fortitude, and compassion.
I believe that really true religion is a good heart.
We must dominate technology, not become its slaves.
Great change starts with individuals; peace in the world is based on inner peace and peace in the heart of every single person. Each of us can contribute.
Each of us is responsible for all of humanity. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, there is no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain our heart is our temple; our philosophy is kindness.
The planet doesn't need a large number of « successful people» . The planet is in desperate need of peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. She needs people who are good to live with. The planet needs people with morality and love, who will make the world alive and humane. And these qualities have little to do with "success" as it is defined in our society.
The Dalai Lama was once asked what amazed him the most. He replied:
– Man. Initially, he sacrifices his health in order to earn money. Then he spends money on restoring health. At the same time, he is so worried about his future that he never enjoys the present. As a result, he does not live in the present or the future. He lives as if he will never die, and when he dies, he regrets that he did not live.
Be kinder whenever possible. And this is always possible.
When everything seems to go wrong for a person, something wonderful tries to enter his life.
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. But our world is in chaos... Because things are loved, but people are used.
The purpose of our life is to become happy.
Maintaining a positive attitude towards life, you can be happy even in the most adverse conditions.
I believe that really true religion is a good heart.
Happiness is the absence of suffering.
Love in its purest and sublime form is the strongest, absolute and unconditional desire for happiness for another person. It is a desire that comes from the heart, regardless of how this person treats us.
If the problem can be solved, then there is no need to worry about it; if it cannot be solved, then it is useless to worry about it.
Maintaining a positive attitude towards life, you can be happy even in the most adverse conditions.
An optimistic attitude is the key to success. It is difficult to achieve even small goals if you are pessimistic from the very beginning. That is why it is important to always remain optimistic.
A person himself chooses whether to suffer or not, choosing his reaction to a particular situation.
The more you are driven by love, the more fearless and free will be your actions.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot live without love and compassion.
The warmth and love we give is much more important than the warmth and love we receive. Only when we share warmth and love, feel genuine concern for others, in other words, show compassion, do we find the conditions for genuine happiness. It follows that loving oneself is more important than being loved.
People are social beings. We are born thanks to other people. We survive with the help of others. Whether we like it or not, in our life it is hardly possible to find moments when we are not dependent on others. Therefore, one should not be surprised that human happiness is the result of our relationships with others.
We will never establish harmony with the world around us until we come to terms with ourselves.
In difficult personal circumstances the best remedy- try, as far as possible, to maintain honesty and openness. Responding rudely or selfishly will only make matters worse.
Remember that the best relationships are those in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
We are connected by true friendship, if it is based on a true human feeling - a feeling of closeness, in which there is a place for a sense of inner connection with another and the desire to share his joy and pain. I would call such friendship genuine, because it is not affected by the rise or fall of material well-being, status and influence.
I am a professional guinea pig. I have faced many hardships in my life and my country is still in its critical period. Nevertheless, I often laugh and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh in such a situation, I answer: I am a professional laugher.
What are you looking for? Happiness, love, peace of mind. Do not go looking for them on the other side of the earth, you will return disappointed, upset, hopeless. Look for them on the other side of yourself, in the depths of your heart.
Remember, silence is sometimes the best answer to questions.
No matter what happens, I will not let my joy run dry. Misfortune leads nowhere and destroys everything that is. Why suffer when you can change everything? And if nothing can be changed, then how will suffering help?
If every eight-year-old child in the world is taught to meditate, we will eliminate violence worldwide in one generation.
Remember, not getting what you want is sometimes luck.
The highest source of my soul's happiness is the peace of my mind. Nothing can break it but my own anger.
We will never establish harmony with the world around us until we come to terms with ourselves.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot live without love and compassion.
What are you looking for? Happiness, love, peace of mind. Do not go looking for them to the other side of the earth, you will return disappointed! Look for them in the depths of your heart.
Sleep is the most important meditation for everyone. Even for birds! Not to get into nirvana, but to survive.
People were made to be loved, and things were made to be used. The world is in chaos because everything is the opposite.
It is very important to learn not to hold anyone. Is nearby good people- rejoice, there is no one around - relax, rethink life.
Don't answer anyone when you're angry, don't promise anything when you're happy, never decide when you're sad.
It's too late to go back to start right, but it's not too late to push forward to finish right.
The transformation of the world is in our hands. If each of us tries, then the next generation can see the birth of a peaceful and happy world.
Material development gives only sense gratification. If we want lasting happiness, we need to develop consciousness. You need to calm the mind.
