I'm not your Guru, "YOU" Are.

MIND

Wasay — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:27:07 +0000

* When a man speaks or acts with good intention, then happiness follows him like his shadow that never leaves him.
* All states have mind as their forerunner, mind is their chief, and they are mind-made. If one speaks or acts, with a defiled mind; then suffering follow one even as the wheel follows the hoof of the draught-ox.
* He whose mind does not flutter by contact with worldly contingencies, sorrowless, stainless and secure-the is the High Blessing.
* From moment to moment, a wise man removes his own impurities, as a smith removes the dross of silver.
* Be on your guard against mental agitation, be controlled in thoughts, forsaking evil thoughts, follow right ways in thoughts.
* You, the disciples of Gotama, must well awaken, by day and by night always contemplate the perfect sage – Buddha.

SORROW

Wasay — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:25:35 +0000

* Only things with which a man identifies himself are able to disturb his mind – only that which concern “myself” can give me grief.
* For him who has no dear (thing) there is no suffering. Those, I declare, are griefless, without passion (and) free from despair.
* He who has a hundred dear (things), has a hundred sufferings; he who has ninety….. ten…..,five…..,two dear (things), has ninety…..,ten…..,five…..,two sufferings.
* The would is in continuous flux and is impermanent.
* Whatever is the nature of arising, all that is of the nature of cessation.
* Birth, old age,disease and death, grief and despair, separation from friends, the company of disliked ones, nonfulfilment of desires – all these attributes of existence are suffering.
* As with a staff the herdsman drives kine to pasture, even so do old age and death drive out the lives of beings.
* Change, impermanence is characteristic of life.
* Whatever is impermanent is “suffering”.
* Even when one has pleasure, it cannot continue forever.
* All conditioned things are impermanent, when one sees this in wisdom, then one becomes dispassionate towards the painful. This is the path to purity.
* He who sees sorrow sees also the arising of sorrow, sees also the cessation of sorrow, and see also the path leading to the cessation of sorrow.

GOODNESS

Wasay — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:47:13 +0000

* Make haste in doing good, restrain your mind from evil. Who so ever is slow in doing good, his mind delights in evil.
* As from heap of flowers many a gis made even so many good deeds should be done by one born a mortal.
* Do not think lightly of good, saying: It will not come to me. Even as a water-pot is filled by the falling of drops, so the wise man, gathering it drop by drop, fills himself with good.
* Be tolerant among the intolerant, gentle among the violent, and free from greed among the greedy.
* Not to do any evil, to cultivate good, to purity one’s mind, this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

SERVICE

Wasay — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:46:33 +0000

* Let him be cordial in his ways and refined in conduct; thereby full of joy he will make an end of ill.
* Love is born out of ties in the previous lives and sympathy in ones present life just as lotus is born out of water and mire.
* He who wishes his own happiness by causing pain to others is not released from hatred, being himself entangled in the tangles of hatred.
* Look at every one equally, irrespective of rich or poor, noble or of low caste.
* The attendant should make the patient happy and hopeful.
* Those who adhere to the principles of the Dhamma, have right attitudes, and true to their words and discharge their duties with responsibility are loved by people.
* Husbands should treat their wives who rely on them in the following five ways: one by honoring them; two by not slighting them; three by being faithful to them; four by giving them household authority; and five by giving them garments and adornments.
* Wives should act towards them in the following five ways: One by organizing the household properly; two by helping the housband relatives; three by being faithful; four by wisely managing and saving the husband’s earning; and five being diligent.
* The four principles of social service namely to be generous, to speak gently, to cooperate and to conduct oneself with decorum are like the spokes in a heel turns a car.
* Those who serve society make freinds, they understand the needs of those they eilp, they are generous and patient in their expounding of reasons. Such people are destined to be reward.
* You must be patient, full of compassion, willing to serve.

BONDS

Wasay — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:45:44 +0000

* To be attached to one thing (to a certain view) and to look down upon other thing (views) as inferior — this the wise man call a fetter.
* Bonds do not exists for whose to whom nought is dear or not dear.
* There is no fire like lust, no grip like hate, there is no net like delusion, no river like craving.
* One should give up anger; One should abandon pride; One should overcome all fetters. I’ll never befall him who clings not to mind and body and is passionless.
* That which is made of iron, wood, or hemp is not a strong bong, say the wise, (but) that longing for jewels, ornaments, children, and wives is far greater an attachment.
* All desires have in them little pleasant taste but rather much potential suffering.
* Folk en wrapt in craving are terrified like a captive hare; held fast by fetters and bonds, for long they come to sorrow again and again.
* For the person who is perturbed by evil thoughts, who is of strong passions, who sees but the pleasurable, craving steadily grows. Indeed, he makes the bond strong.

BARRIER

Wasay — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:32:57 +0000

* Every sin is more injury to him who does it than to him who suffers it.
* Do not think lightly of evil, saying “It will no come to me”. Even a water-pot is filled by the falling of drops. Likewise the fool, gathering it drop by drop, fills himself with evil.
* Five hindrances to any kind of clear understanding:
1. lusting desires
2. ill-will, hated or anger
3. torpor and languor
4. restlessness and worry
5. sceptical doubts
* The fool thinks an evil deed as sweet as honey, so long as it does not repen (does not procuce results). But when it repens, the fool comes to grief.
* A faithless, lying man who has no thought of the after life is capable of all sin.
* It is well with the evil-doer until his evil (deed) ripens. But when his evil (deed) bears fruit, he then sees its ill effects.
* Killing, stealing, lying and adultery, these four evils the wise never praise.
* Telling lies is the origin of all evils; it leads a person to evil planes of existence, his mouth will emit an offensive smell; and what he says will be disliked and despised by others.
* He who, seeking his own happiness, torments with the rod creatures that are desirous of happiness, shall not obtain happiness hereafter.
* Misconduct is the taint of a woman; stinginess is the taint of a donor. Taints, indeed, are all evil things both in this world and the next.
* The three mental evils are greed, hatred and delusion. The three bodily evils are killing, stealing and harmful sexual conduct. The four oral evils are speaking hypocritically, and using harsh, false and suggestive language.
* By oneself indeed is evil done and by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone and by oneself indeed is one purified. Purity and impurity depend on oneself. No one can purify another.

KINDNESS

Wasay — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:21:35 +0000

* Just as a mother would protect her only child even at the risk of her. own life, even so let one cultivate a boundless heart towards all beings.
* Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this would; it is appeased by love. This is an eternal law.
* Let not one deceive another nor despise any person whatever in any place. In anger or ill will let not one wish any harm to another.
* Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
* All tremble at punishment. All fear death (Life is dear to all); comparing others with oneself, one should neither kill nor cause to kill.

UNDERSTANDING

Wasay — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:36:41 +0000

*Do not led by mere logic or inference, nor by considering appearances.
* When you know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong, then give them up.. . And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.
* In the unreal they imagine real, in the real they see the unreal; they who feed on wrong thoughts never achieve the real.
* The sensible man is not influenced by what other people think.
* Do not be led by reports, or tradition, or hearsay.
* Do not velieve what is passed from mouth; Do not believe rumors; Do not believe the infallibility of texts.
*Do not believe your own guesses; Do not believe what accords to your own convictions; Do not believe what is spoken by an accepted authority.
* he is not thereby just because he hastily arbitrates. The wise man should investigate both right and wrong.

PEACE

Wasay — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:21:18 +0000

* Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
* Leave the past alone, do not worry about the future, do not cling to the present and you will achieve calm.
* Being neither jealous nor greedy, being without desires, and remaining the same under all circumstances, this is nobility.
* Do not overestimate what you have received, nor ever envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
* He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquility becomes free from fear and free from sin.

WORRY

Wasay — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:42:32 +0000

*The world lacks and hankers, and is enslaved to “thirst”.
* he who sees other’s faults, is ever irritable, the corruptions of such a one grow. he is far from the destruction of the corruptions.
* The wise man builds no hopes for the future, entertains no regrets for the past.
* The conqueror begets enmity; the defeated lie down in distress. The peaceful rests in happiness, giving up both victory and defeat.
* Whoever lives contemplating unpleasant things, with senses well-restrained, in food moderate, replete with confidence and sustained effort, him Mara overthows not, as wind a rocky mountain.
* By confidence, by virtue, by effort, by concentration, by the invastigation of the Truth, by being endowed with knowledge and conduct, and by being mindful, get rid of this great suffering.

PEACE!
Namaste