here was a monk who asked the Master, “Does a person who has had sudden awakening still need to continue with cultivation?”
The Master said, “If one has true awakening and attains to the fundamental, then at that time that person knows for himself that cultivation and non cultivation are just dualistic opposites. Like now, though the initial inspiration is dependent on conditions, if within a single thought one awakens to one’s own reality, there are still certain habitual tendencies that have accumulated over numberless kalpas which cannot be purified in a single instant. That person should certainly be taught how to gradually remove the karmic tendencies and mental habits: this is cultivation. There is no other method of cultivation that need to be taught to that person.”
The Master said, “If one has true awakening and attains to the fundamental, then at that time that person knows for himself that cultivation and non cultivation are just dualistic opposites. Like now, though the initial inspiration is dependent on conditions, if within a single thought one awakens to one’s own reality, there are still certain habitual tendencies that have accumulated over numberless kalpas which cannot be purified in a single instant. That person should certainly be taught how to gradually remove the karmic tendencies and mental habits: this is cultivation. There is no other method of cultivation that need to be taught to that person.”
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
Instead of quoting the Buddha, BE the Buddha!
Love Me or Hate Me Still An Obsession.
Everybody Has a Right To Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness...
I have to say that even though I respect all religions. I have to say that Buddhist way is the best. I have to say it. *laughs*
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to
recognize it as such
recognize it as such
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say:
"To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day."
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say:
"To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day."
Beings
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