| |  | | | | | | | | | | | The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. | | Uncategorized | | | The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. | | Existence | | | The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. | | Speech | | | The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. | | World | | | There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being. | | Uncategorized | | | There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting. | | Beginning | | | There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. | | Uncategorized | | | There is an unborn, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. There cannot be any escape from what is born, become compounded. But since there is this unborn, not become, not-made, not-compounded, therefore is there made known an escape from what i | | Uncategorized | | | There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. | | Doubt | | | There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind. | | Uncategorized | | | There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded. | | Uncategorized | | | Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height. | | Uncategorized | | | They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. | | Uncategorized | | Think not lightly of evil, saying, 'It will not come to me.'
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.
Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil. | | Uncategorized | | | Thirst for existence, O monks, has a specific condition, it is nourished by something, it also does not go without support. And what is that nourishment? It is ignorance. | | Uncategorized | | | This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation. | | Uncategorized | | | This existence of ours is as transient as Autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain. | | Uncategorized | | | This indeed is a safe refuge, it is the refuge supreme. It is the refuge whereby one is freed from all suffering. | | Uncategorized | | | This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. | | Uncategorized | | | Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. | | Uncategorized | | | | | | | |
