“Bhaishajya8: You don’t need to be staring at a wall or altar, or be sitting in a certain way to meditate. Always analyze the mind”
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Month: June 2011
From The New York Times…and The Guardian, UK
OPINION ~ The New York Times ~ The Future Doesn’t Hurt. Yet (click to read) By MATTHIEU RICARD
Published: June 23, 2011
A Buddhist monk contemplates how our insouciant ways are threatening the planet.
- Himalayan glaciers disappear
Click on the above image to read another article about the disappearing glaciers ( from The Guardian UK)
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Buddha and Mara
Buddha and Mara are figurative ways of portraying a fundamental opposition within human natures. While “Buddha” stands for a capacity for awareness, openness, and freedom, “Mara” represents a capacity for confusion, closure, and restriction. To live with the devil is to live with the perpetual conflict between one’s Buddha-nature and one’s Mara-nature. When Buddha-nature prevails, fixations ease and the world brightens, revealing itself as empty, contingent, and fluid.
-Stephen Batchelor, “Living With The Devil”
( I recently bought, ‘Living With the Devil’ by Stephen Batchelor. I have not put the book in my ‘To Be Read’ (TBR) stack yet. Soon though, soon! ~ Debra )
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When sunlight falls on a crystal…
”When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety -devotion, compassion, harmfulness, desire – are utterly without a substance. This is the mind of the Buddha.” ~ Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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We Just Don’t Know…
When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, we don’t know what’s really going to happen. When we think something is going to give us misery, we don’t know. Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. We try to do what we think is going to help. But we don’t know. We never know if we’re going to fall flat or sit up tall. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know.
~ Pema Chodron
A Buddhist's Journey 