365 Buddha PA - Jeff Schmidt [10]
UDĀNA 1.10
97.
[T]here is no sweet companion like pure charity.
FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING 1508
98.
‘[I]t is like the fire which a man, in the cold season, might kindle, and when he had warmed himself, leave still burning, and go away. Then if that fire were to set another man’s field on fire, and the owner of the field were to seize him, and bring him before the king, and charge him with the injury, and he were to say: “Your Majesty! It was not I who set this man’s field on fire. The fire I left burning was a different one from that which burnt his field. I am not guilty.” Now would the man, O king, be guilty?’
‘Certainly, Sir.’
‘But why?’
‘Because, in spite of whatever he might say, he would be guilty in respect of the subsequent fire that resulted from the previous one.’
‘Just so, great king, deeds good or evil are done by this name-and-form and another is reborn. But that other is not thereby released from its deeds (its Karma).’
MILINDAPAÑHA 47
99.
The Buddhas of all times and the Zen masters throughout history carry forth the whole earth and hide it in the earth; they smash open the world and take out the world.
DŌGEN; RATIONAL ZEN
100.
And what, monks, is Right Thought? The thought of renunciation, the thought of non-ill-will, the thought of harmlessness. This, monks, is called Right Thought.
DĪGHA NIKĀYA ii 312
101.
Buddha-nature is non-duality.
THE SUTRA OF HUI NENG
102.
The king said: ‘Your people [Buddhists] say, Nāgasena, that though a man should have lived a hundred years an evil life, yet if, at the moment of death, thoughts of the Buddha should enter his mind, he will be reborn among the gods. This I don’t believe. And thus do they also say: “By one case of destruction of life a man may be reborn in purgatory.” That, too, I cannot believe.’
‘But tell me, O king. Would even a tiny stone float on the water without a boat?’
‘Certainly not.’
‘Very well; but would not a hundred cart-loads of stones float on the water if they were loaded in a boat?’
‘Yes, they would float right enough.’
‘Well, good deeds are like the boat.’
‘Very good, Nāgasena!’
MILINDAPAÑHA 80
103.
Everything from the smallest kind of happiness up to Buddha-hood comes from sentient beings. All happiness is determined by the activities you do in relation to sentient beings.
SERMEY GESHE LOBSANG THARCHIN; ESSENCE OF
MAHAYANA LOJONG PRACTICE
104.
The charitable man discarding earthly wealth, nobly excludes the power of covetous desire.
Loving and compassionate now, he gives with reverence and banishes all hatred, envy, anger. So plainly may we see the fruit of charity, putting away all covetous and unbelieving ways.
The bands of sorrow all destroyed, this is the fruit of kindly charity. Know then! The charitable man has found the cause of final rescue.
Even as the man who plants the sapling, thereby secures the shade, the flowers, the fruit (of the tree full grown); the result of charity is even so, its reward is joy and the great Nirvāṇa.
FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING 1512-1515
105.
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
AJAHN CHAH; STILL FOREST POOL
106.
Clinging to sense pleasures, to sensual ties,
Seeing in fetters nothing to be blamed,
Never will those tied down by fetters
Cross the flood so wide and great.
U DĀ NA 7.3
107.
‘Lord, how should we act towards women?’ ‘Do not see them, Ānanda.’ ‘But if we see them, how should we behave, Lord?’ ‘Do not speak to them, Ānanda.’ ‘But if they speak to us, Lord, how should we behave?’ ‘Practice mindfulness, Ānanda.’
DĪGHA NIKĀYA ii 141
108.
That very seeing does not see
Itself at all.
How can something that cannot see itself
See another?
NĀGĀRJUNA; MŪLAMADHYAMAKA-KĀRIKĀ III, 2
109.
Practice then the art of “giving up