Daily Wisdom Saying - Page 22

Bandit · 03-10-2005, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Vajradhara

Wordly afflictions are as extensive as an ocean, noisy and clamourous; but they all arise from the thoughts in your own mind. When not a single thought is conceived, you are liberated from them all.

Since it depends on one's own self, how hard could it be? Attaining Buddhahood shouldn't take even a finger snap.

Viewed in this way, it seems very easy; but even so, you must be the one to do it. An acient said, "The moment you produce a thought, it is an object; just don't have a single thought, and objects disappear, so mind dies out spontaneously, adn there is nothing more to pursue."

Those who have good roots will understand this kind of talk the moment they hear it. Those who may be slower should look into it over and over - ultimately what principle is this?

~ Ta-tu

Greetings Vajradhara,
I think it takes a special person (teacher) to get this across to some. Sometimes I think people make a special contact with another who understands this and they are able to relate it to them, where someone else may not be able to.

Quote:

When not a single thought is conceived, you are liberated from them all.

I think this is one of the main keys right here. Knowing when and how to STOP. Stop telling the same old stories and issues to ourselves over and over.
We pile the issues up so high sometimes, it actually feels good when I can knock them all down and fall into them like they are not even there because most of time they are not there.
I think the first time I realized it was when I was actually able to stop.

Stop running to and fro. Just stop. It is that easy.
Nice.

JJM · 03-12-2005, 01:13 AM

If you ever meet the 'spirit of Vatican II', drive a wooden stake through its heart.

-Fr. Benedict Groeschel

JJM · 03-12-2005, 04:59 PM

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
-Dan Quayle

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
-Dan Quayle

I have made good judgments in the Past.
I have made good judgments in the Future.
- Vice-President Dan Quayle

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.
- Vice-President Dan Quayle

The fact that no one understands you doesn't make you an artist.
-Unknown

Taxation with representation ain't so hot either.
-Gerald Barzan

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
- George Barzan

If I ever went to war, instead of throwing a grenade, I'd throw one of those small pumpkins. Then maybe my enemy would pick up the pumpkin and think about the futility of war and that would give me the time I need to hit him with a real grenade.

-Jack Handey

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.’

-Jack Handey

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, 'How do you think I got the job?
- Dick Cheney

sangam · 03-12-2005, 07:03 PM

'yoga-chitta-vritti-nirodha' (sanskrit)
patanjali yoga sutra
yoga: to join, to become one
chitta: mind stuff (mind would not perhps be an exact translation as chitta refers to all thought processess and emotional processess. more learned members would perhaps be able to suggest a better translation.)
vritti: ripples, transformations.
nirodha: to negate, to stop, to restrain.

yoga is restraining the mind stuff from taking various forms

this defines the objective of yoga according to patanjali.

Bandit · 03-13-2005, 01:01 AM

Quote:

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
- George Barzan

very funny JJM. I like them all. I forget until they all come to order like this.

Quote:

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.
- Vice-President Dan Quayle

what a trip

Quahom1 · 03-13-2005, 01:17 AM

"KISS"

A wise military saying (especially by a senior NCO to his/her subordinates, usually done nearly below one's breath), right before something big is about to happen...and all hell could break loose.

keep it simple, stupid.

v/r

Q

JJM · 03-14-2005, 02:30 AM

Making a smoking area in a restaurant is the same thing as making a peeing area in a pool.

- Heather Tanner

Ciel · 03-16-2005, 10:20 PM

A man went swimming in the river.
He fell asleep.
He awoke in the ocean.

farhan · 03-23-2005, 08:28 AM

Al-Ghazzali (a muslim jurist, theologian, philosopher and mystic) died December 1111 AD , and under his bed a paper was found containing the following stanzas:

"Do not believe that this corpse you see is myself.
I am spirit and this is naught but flesh.
I am pearl which has left its shell deserted.
It was my prison where I spent my time in grief.
I am a bird and it was my cage.
Whence I have not flown forth and it is left as a token.
Praise be to God, who hath now set me free."

sangam · 04-01-2005, 12:18 AM

you cannot believe in god until you believe in yourself.

swami vivekananda

Pathless · 04-07-2005, 11:17 PM

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

--Henry Miller

didymus · 04-09-2005, 05:40 AM

Life is a journey not a guided tour.

JJM · 05-07-2005, 07:53 PM

The decisive question for a man is: Is he related to the Infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life?

-Carl Jung

Life isn’t a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

-Soren Kierkegaard

The most beautiful thing that we can experience is the mysterious.

-Albert Einstein

and to lighten the mood

I think we all agree that the past is over.

-President George W. Bush

If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!

-President George W. Bush

Quahom1 · 05-08-2005, 12:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JJM

The decisive question for a man is: Is he related to the Infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life?

-Carl Jung

Life isn’t a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

-Soren Kierkegaard

The most beautiful thing that we can experience is the mysterious.

-Albert Einstein

and to lighten the mood

I think we all agree that the past is over.

-President George W. Bush

If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!

-President George W. Bush

No wiser words have been spoken by a president. Read between the lines...

PistisSophia · 05-11-2005, 11:59 PM

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;

the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light.

~~~Plato