365 Buddha PA - Jeff Schmidt [6]
The thought to give all beings everything,
Together with the fruit of such a thought.
Hence it is simply a state of mind.
ŚĀNTIDEVA; BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 5.9-5.10
46.
Like a beautiful brightly colored flower without fragrance Is the well-spoken word without action.
Like a beautiful brightly colored flower full of fragrance Is the well-spoken word and the deed that matches the word.
DHAMMAPADA 51-52
47.
What people expect to happen is always different from what actually happens. From this comes great disappointment; this is the way the world works.
SUTTA NIPĀTA 588
48.
The assertion that the effect and cause are similar
Is not acceptable.
The assertion that they are not similar
Is also not acceptable.
NĀGĀRJUNA; MŪLAMADHYAMAKA-KĀRIKĀ IV, 6
49.
The king said: ‘What is the characteristic mark of reasoning, and what of wisdom?’
‘Reasoning has always comprehension as its mark; but wisdom has cutting off.’
‘But how is comprehension the characteristic of reasoning, and cutting off of wisdom? Give me an illustration.’
‘You remember the barley reapers?’
‘Yes, certainly.’
‘How do they reap the barley?’
‘With the left hand they grasp the barley into a bunch, and taking the sickle into the right hand, they cut it off with that.’
‘Just even so, O king, does the recluse by his thinking grasp his mind, and by his wisdom cut off his failings. In this way is it that comprehension is the characteristic of reasoning, but cutting off of wisdom.’
‘Well put, Nāgasena!’
MILINDAPAÑHA 32-33
50.
There are two kinds of suffering: the suffering that leads to more suffering and the suffering that leads to the end of suffering. If you are not willing to face the second kind of suffering, you will surely continue to experience the first.
AJAHN CHAH; STILL FOREST POOL
51.
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
THICH NHAT HANH; BEING PEACE
52.
The hostile multitudes are vast as space—
What chance is there that all should be subdued?
Let but this angry mind be overthrown
And every foe is then and there destroyed.
To cover all the earth with sheets of hide—
Where could such amounts of skin be found?
But simply wrap some leather round your feet,
And it’s as if the whole earth had been covered!
Likewise, we can never take
And turn aside the outer course of things.
But only seize and discipline the mind itself,
And what is there remaining to be curbed?
ŚĀNTIDEVA; BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 5.12-5.14
53.
Be quick to do good.
If you are slow,
The mind, delighting in mischief,
Will catch you.
DHAMMAPADA 116
54.
By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom.
By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
THE SUTRA OF HUI NENG
55.
If you are afraid of pain,
if you don’t like it,
do nothing evil,
either openly or in secret.
For if you do,
even if you get up and run away
you won’t escape its pain.
If you are afraid of pain,
if you don’t like it,
take refuge in the Buddha,
the Dharma and the Sangha.
Train in the precepts.
This is good.
THERĪ-GĀTHĀ 246-249
56.
One who grasps the view that the Tathāgata exists,
Having seized the Buddha,
Constructs conceptual fabrications
About one who has achieved nirvāṇa.
NĀGĀRJUNA; MŪLAMADHYAMAKA-KĀRIKĀ XXII, 13
57.
A layman who has chosen to practice this Dhamma should not indulge in the drinking of intoxicants. He should not drink them nor encourage others to do so, realizing that it leads to madness. Through intoxication foolish people perform evil deeds and cause other heedless people to do likewise. He should avoid intoxication, this occasion for demerit, which stupefies the mind, and is the pleasure of foolish people.
SUTTA NIPĀTA 398-399
58.
There is no evil like hatred,
And no fortitude like patience.
ŚĀNTIDEVA; BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 6.2
59.
The king said: ‘Venerable Nāgasena, where does wisdom dwell?’
‘Nowhere, O king.’