Category Archives: Buddhism
The Mind of Enlightenment
It is the supreme elixir that overcomes the sovereignty of death. It is the inexhaustible treasure that eliminates poverty in the world. It is the supreme medicine that quells the world’s disease. …
Source: The Mind of Enlightenment
Our “thoughts” create the world.
“With our thoughts we make the world”.-Buddha
Buddhaful Morning
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -Buddha
“Zen” To the mind that is still…
Zen Stories : The Gift of Insults
There once lived a great warrior. Though quite old, he still was able to defeat any challenger. His reputation extended far and wide throughout the land and many students gathered to study under him. One day an infamous young warrior arrived at the village. He was determined to be the first man to defeat the great master. Along with his strength, he had an uncanny ability to spot and exploit any weakness in an opponent. He would wait for his opponent to make the first move, thus revealing a weakness, and then would strike with merciless force and lightning speed. No one had ever lasted with him in a match beyond the first move. Much against the advice of his concerned students, the old master gladly accepted the young warrior’s challenge. As the two squared off for battle, the young warrior began to hurl insults at the old master. He… |
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Taoist Mystic by Nina Yin
There was nothing, became everything, words devastating.
The tongue is far sharp-er sword. Bit-er sweet words
They ink jot and plot on pages
Captivating your mind, your captive in this ancient
Way. Since pyramids you peer-amidst scripture
The script will surely fit-the-picture
Graffiti-esque hieroglyphs; of time
In rhyme-form or devine-chords
Forever and ever and ever… trying to define more
Writers n biters, stolen ideas are the highest potential in-sequential
Prior to this something there was a comforting nothing
Simplistic-mystic-blissful-infinitely-intimate
Nothing.
What could be worse?
The beings with unfortunate karma that we are supposed to be protecting are instead being killed without the slightest compassion, and their boiled flesh and blood are being presented to us and we …
Source: What could be worse?
The Way of The Samurai; Ghost Dog – Emptiness is Form. Zen.
Abysmal Conceit
Blissful is solitude for one who is content, learned, and established in the Dharma.
Blissful is kindness towards all beings, without exception.
Blissful is full freedom from sensual urges.
And yet, the supreme bliss
is the elimination of this abysmal conceit of ‘me’ and ‘mine’.
—Buddha Shakyamuni
Source: Abysmal Conceit
“With our thoughts we make the world”.-Buddha

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