Sunday, March 15, 2009
Buddhist Thought for the Week
I teach that the multitudinousness of objects have no reality in themselves but are only seen of the mind and, therefore, are of the nature of maya and a dream. ...It is true that in one sense they are seen and discriminated by the senses as individualized objects; but in another sense, because of the absence of any characteristic marks of self-nature, they are not seen but are only imagined. In one sense they are graspable, but in another sense, they are not graspable. -Buddha
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Buddhist Thought for the Week
INDIAN POEM
"This day is a special day, it is yours.
Yesterday slipped away, it cannot be filled anymore with meaning.
About tomorrow nothing is known.
But this day, today, is yours, make use of it.
Today you can make someone happy.
Today you can help another.
This day is a special day, it is yours."
"This day is a special day, it is yours.
Yesterday slipped away, it cannot be filled anymore with meaning.
About tomorrow nothing is known.
But this day, today, is yours, make use of it.
Today you can make someone happy.
Today you can help another.
This day is a special day, it is yours."
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Buddhist thought the week
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Buddhist Thought for the Week
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. - Buddha
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Buddhist thought for Last week
The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
Atisha
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
Atisha
Friday, January 30, 2009
Buddhist thought the week
No matter what one does, whether one's deeds serve virtue or vice, nothing lacks importance. All actions bear a kind of fruit. - Buddha
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Buddhist thought the week
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Day
Thank you Dr. King for paving the way for a brighter future and standing up against injustice. Our country is a better place for everyone because of your sacrifices.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Buddhist thought the week
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good. - Buddha
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Sunny Sunday
Once again the attempt to write something of interest.
Sigh..
I'm not sure why it's so hard to write when I have no trouble talking out loud. Sometimes I talk loudly. Mainly it's because I wish to be heard.
Listening to music is fun. Taking a moment for music thearpy is an important time each day for me. This morning the next door neighboors asked us to turn the music which I was playing, down. I miss the loud music of my past but look forward to a future of beautiful melodies.
The whimsy words I whisper today are softer as time goes on but they linger forever on this page.
What a perfect Sunny Sunday in San Francisco.
Peace from Buena Vista Park.
Sigh..
I'm not sure why it's so hard to write when I have no trouble talking out loud. Sometimes I talk loudly. Mainly it's because I wish to be heard.
Listening to music is fun. Taking a moment for music thearpy is an important time each day for me. This morning the next door neighboors asked us to turn the music which I was playing, down. I miss the loud music of my past but look forward to a future of beautiful melodies.
The whimsy words I whisper today are softer as time goes on but they linger forever on this page.
What a perfect Sunny Sunday in San Francisco.
Peace from Buena Vista Park.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Buddhist Thought for the Week
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere... If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good. - Dr. Seuss, One Fish two fish red fish blue fish, 1960
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Buddhist thought for Last week
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little. - Buddha
Friday, January 2, 2009
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!
LOTS OF LOVE AND BIG WISHES THAT WE ALL REMAIN HEALTHY AND HAPPY FOR 2009!!!!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Buddhist Thought for the Week
"Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions.
Every discrepancy between a conscious intention and the emotions that accompany it, points directly to a splintered aspect of the self that requires healing."
Gary Zukav
Every discrepancy between a conscious intention and the emotions that accompany it, points directly to a splintered aspect of the self that requires healing."
Gary Zukav
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Buddhist Thought for the Week
How to reach Enlightenment in this lifetime
Many sects and traditions will have different practices to complement the Eightfold Noble Path laid out by Shakyamuni Buddha, but all have these as their basis:
Right Views: i.e., Knowledge of the Four Noble Truths:
The world is full of suffering and stress.
The cause of this suffering and stress is desires of physical instincts.
If desire can be removed, and suffering and stress will be ended.
Desire can be removed by following the Eightfold Noble Path: Right Views, Right Thoughts, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration.
Right Thoughts: Aspire to attain realization of Nirvana, i.e., perfect wisdom, the ultimate true permanent reality.
Right Speech: Abstain from all lying, falsehoods, evil, abusive and frivolous speech.
Right Conduct: Keep the Five Precepts:
Abstain from taking life,
abstain from taking that which is not given,
abstain from misconduct done in lust,
abstain from lying,
abstain from all forms of intoxication.
Right Livelihood: Abstain from all evil living and all manner of ill-gotten gain or means of livelihood.
Right Effort: Abstain from all evil states of mind; foster and maintain virtuous states of mind; compassion, pity, sympathy, calmness and tranquility
Right Mindfulness: Regard everything as being impermanent, ill and corrupt: i.e., all feelings, perceptions, inclinations, consciousness, thoughts, mental states, mental images and mental activities.
Right Concentration: Foster dispassion, detachment, and revulsion for the things of the world as being decaying and impermanent. Practice aloofness from evil states of mind, from the senses and all sensations. Practice dwelling in solitude and seclusion, meditating and reflecting with singleness of mind.
Many sects and traditions will have different practices to complement the Eightfold Noble Path laid out by Shakyamuni Buddha, but all have these as their basis:
Right Views: i.e., Knowledge of the Four Noble Truths:
The world is full of suffering and stress.
The cause of this suffering and stress is desires of physical instincts.
If desire can be removed, and suffering and stress will be ended.
Desire can be removed by following the Eightfold Noble Path: Right Views, Right Thoughts, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration.
Right Thoughts: Aspire to attain realization of Nirvana, i.e., perfect wisdom, the ultimate true permanent reality.
Right Speech: Abstain from all lying, falsehoods, evil, abusive and frivolous speech.
Right Conduct: Keep the Five Precepts:
Abstain from taking life,
abstain from taking that which is not given,
abstain from misconduct done in lust,
abstain from lying,
abstain from all forms of intoxication.
Right Livelihood: Abstain from all evil living and all manner of ill-gotten gain or means of livelihood.
Right Effort: Abstain from all evil states of mind; foster and maintain virtuous states of mind; compassion, pity, sympathy, calmness and tranquility
Right Mindfulness: Regard everything as being impermanent, ill and corrupt: i.e., all feelings, perceptions, inclinations, consciousness, thoughts, mental states, mental images and mental activities.
Right Concentration: Foster dispassion, detachment, and revulsion for the things of the world as being decaying and impermanent. Practice aloofness from evil states of mind, from the senses and all sensations. Practice dwelling in solitude and seclusion, meditating and reflecting with singleness of mind.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Good Monday Morning
First and foremost, I apologize for the random nature of this post. It's been a while since I took the time to write out my thoughts but here we go!!
After a great night of sleep I woke feeling refreshed, happy and thankful for another day on Planet Earth. I did have some weird dreams (which I can't remember). Upon seeing the dogs and my husband this AM the weird feeling vanished! Because of the beautiful smile and waging tails that greeted me today it's easy feeling great about life and all that I'm dealing with.
Not sure what to write about but damn Tom Cruise is a handsome man...He's on the Today Show promoting his new film Valkyrie.
This will be my first Christmas in a long while that will be spent with a partner. Married life is an all at once tough, awesome, humbling, trying, easy and hard expricance. That reads crazy even to me so imagine how it is for Geo and I!! There isn't a thing I'd change tho. I love him and working together in our marriage is of the highest importance so we can ensure we 'll remain happily together.
School looms closer and closer. EEEEEK!
The weather here in SF has been great also. Rain is needed in dry California and when the sun does decide to show it's face there's no other place I'd rather live!!!
Time for the morning walk with the pups and I've run out of things to write. I could go on but it would be me only complaining that Bush is still in office and that he wasn't hit by the bold Iraqi reporter who hurld his shoes at him yesterday during a press confernce. Damn ...how funny and poinaint all at once.
Signing off for now!!
PeAce!!!!
After a great night of sleep I woke feeling refreshed, happy and thankful for another day on Planet Earth. I did have some weird dreams (which I can't remember). Upon seeing the dogs and my husband this AM the weird feeling vanished! Because of the beautiful smile and waging tails that greeted me today it's easy feeling great about life and all that I'm dealing with.
Not sure what to write about but damn Tom Cruise is a handsome man...He's on the Today Show promoting his new film Valkyrie.
This will be my first Christmas in a long while that will be spent with a partner. Married life is an all at once tough, awesome, humbling, trying, easy and hard expricance. That reads crazy even to me so imagine how it is for Geo and I!! There isn't a thing I'd change tho. I love him and working together in our marriage is of the highest importance so we can ensure we 'll remain happily together.
School looms closer and closer. EEEEEK!
The weather here in SF has been great also. Rain is needed in dry California and when the sun does decide to show it's face there's no other place I'd rather live!!!
Time for the morning walk with the pups and I've run out of things to write. I could go on but it would be me only complaining that Bush is still in office and that he wasn't hit by the bold Iraqi reporter who hurld his shoes at him yesterday during a press confernce. Damn ...how funny and poinaint all at once.
Signing off for now!!
PeAce!!!!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
buddhist thought for the week
Be wise, disciplined and non-violent and you will find peace. Be aware both night and day, continue your practice, and you will attain Nirvana. - Buddha
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Buddhist Thought of the Week
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday, November 21, 2008
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