look carefully
and everything will
show you its beauty
Category: buddhism
This category is about everything Buddha and Buddhism, which teaches that:
1) everything is marked by impermanence, to believe in any permanence is to suffer, and the the ultimate cause of suffering is the rejection of the non-permanent self.
2) Enlightenment (contentment) can be found through the understanding of the true nature of existence (trilaksana) as stated here, and by living in accordance to such an understanding.
(no more) love
to you
it’s the world,
your world,
a kind of
definition
but one day
you will know
it cannot
define you
or even love
No act of kindness is ever too soon.
on (the) edge
we walk
the edge
of the earth
at every moment
and yet most
do not know
this simple
obvious truth
Monday Meme with Shawn L Bird.
Is The Buddha a god?
The Buddha was born a prince. His mother died soon after giving birth to him. So there is no claim of divinity of any kind. He was an ordinary man with ordinary problems just like you and me. And therefore he is not a god. Nor should he be worshipped as such.
Buddhist iconography was something which arose after his death. And temples are not places of worship. Both of these are created to help us understand his teaching, the dharma, which is we alone can liberate ourselves from unhappiness through attention to the nature of one’s body and mind.
This then means that Buddhism is not about faith but practice. The practice espoused was to look after the mind as much as we look after our body. This Buddhists do through meditation. Meditation does not have any special powers as such but only allows one to focus the mind to see clearly what the mind and body are. Some kind of basic understanding is necessary of course, but essentially it is that everything is impermanent, without self and suffering. Nothing including Buddhism lasts forever. That includes the self which many people cling on to. The self is an illusion. And that is perhaps the greatest of all roots of our suffering. Understand that this is what existence is then we can proceed to find the happiness which does not diminish.
Right Speech
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There are some things that should be said and many more that should be left unsaid.
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More often than not a complement will do more harm than good, and advice will have the opposite effect.
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Things written on blogs are the same. They may be detrimental to a better self. Right Writing is also Right Speech.
forgiveness
if we think
only God forgives
then we are weaker
than we believe
forgiveness is
a matter of choice
not a given
just because
we are mortal
if we are willing
to forgive then
we have taken
the first step
to forgiveness
being willing
to some action
is something
we can do
that in itself is proof
we have the capacity
for forgiveness
photograph
some-thing
beautiful is
captured then
(re)arranged on
sensitive surface
becoming
an-other object
not a ‘you’ or ‘it’ but
an image and schema
without
time
place
essence
Not ‘if’ but ‘when’
Death is not a question of if but when. Framed this way, then, there is nothing to fear about death, and one can get on with life and live it to the fullest.
Monk Begging in Shopping District
Recitations
Drowned out
By summer heat,
Rushing crowd.
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