Reflections in Water 2

Reflections in Water 2

Buddhist Words- Art of Dharma

Mind at Peace

"When the mind is at peace,

the world too is at peace.

Nothing real, nothing absent.

Not holding on to reality,

not getting stuck in the void,

you are neither holy or wise, just

an ordinary fellow who has completed his work."

(By P'ang Yün-The Enlightened Heart 34)

"Thus shall ye think of this fleeting world:

A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;

A flash of lightning in a summer cloud;

A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream." 

(-Buddha, Diamond Sutra)

“Without insight, meditation cannot contain the highest state of quietude. 

Without meditation, wisdom cannot achieve its profundity of insight.”

(HU SHIH)

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Thoughtful Reflections

Thoughtful Reflections

Be independent and cling to nothing.

I-Hsuan

The prior moment of thinking, in which there is attachment to things, is that of affliction. The next moment of thinking, in which there is separation from things, is that of Perfect Wisdom.

The Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are the echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles after a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche 

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Albert Camus

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Henry Van Dyke 

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Jean Anouilh

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

The End.

BoSt Galleries-Realism 2

In Dreamland

A disciple of Soyen Shaku once related how his schoolmaster used to take regular naps every afternoon and, when a curious pupil once asked the master why he had this repose in midday, he was told, “I go to dreamland to meet ancient sages like Confucius. When Confucius slept, he would dream of the sages and later tell his followers about them.”

It so happened that one a real scorcher of a day some of the pupils, unable to help themselves, took a nap under a huge and ancient tree where they benefited from the delightful breeze. The schoolmaster, chancing upon them, scolded them for being lax in their duties.

“We went to dreamland, the same as Confucius did, to meet the ancient sages.” a few of them protested.

“I see,” The master pursed his lips. “What was the message from those sages?” he called their bluff.

The bravest of the bunch responded with a serious demeanor, “When we were in dreamland we asked the sages how well they knew you since, according to your claim, you visited them every afternoon. Oddly enough they said that they had never seen any such fellow.”

Zen Story

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“In the autumn and winter, water begins to freeze into ice. When the warm

breezes of spring come, the rigidity is dissolved, and the elements that have

been dispersed in ice floes are reunited. It is the same with the minds of the people. Through hardness and selfishness the heart grows rigid, and this

rigidity leads to separation from all others. Egotism and cupidity isolate men.

Therefore the hearts of men must be seized by a devout emotion. They must

be shaken by a religious awe in face of eternity-stirred with an intuition of the One Creator of all living beings, and united through the strong feeling of fellowship experienced in the ritual of divine worship.”

I Ching