Words distort thinking, thoughts distort perceiving, percepts distort acting, acts distort being, [beings distort naught, that I may be the acting of the perceiving of the thinking of the wording of the question ‘who?’.]
Nanamoli Thera
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I love gift-giving. I take great joy in giving gifts I have made to my loved ones and friends. Because I developed CRPS, I have not been able to give gifts in the way I had been. This quote from Ajahn Brahm helped me to realize I still can…
“Give the gift of your peace.”
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The Charyapada is a collection of mystical poems, songs of realization in the Vajrayāna tradition of Buddhism from the tāntric tradition in Assam, Bengal, Bihar and Odisha.[1] It was compiled between the 8th and 12th centuries in late Apabhraṃśa or various Abahaṭṭha dialects, representing the formative stage of the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages.[2][3][4] It was written during a period when the northeastern Prākrit languages had not yet differentiated into later forms, or they were just getting differentiated.[5] Scholars of many eastern Indo-Aryan languages, such as Assamese, Bengali, Maithili, and Odia find features of these languages in the language of this work
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Where the quote is from:
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Though it is possible to define fog perfectly clearly, such a definition will not aid one to find one’s way about in the fog.
Nanamoli Thera
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Here is a collection of short phrases/quotes that I have found helpful to repeat throughout the day and have saved on my smartphone:
May I “ have a sense of enough for the sake of contentment” Sn 4:16 To Sāriputta | sutta on dhammatalks.org
“When am I going to stop?” Ajahn Brahm/Brahmali tale of Ajahn Chah’s novice monk who has getting tired of listening to a long Ajahn Chah sermon, and kept asking himself “When is he going to stop” but then suddenly realized how much he was perseverating on that and asked himself: “When am I going to stop?”
“Not grasping, they’re not anxious. Not being anxious, they personally become extinguished.” MN37
“The path is easy for one with no preferences” (Xinxin Ming poem)
“Arousing equanimity,
centered within,
[may i] cut off any penchant
to conjecture or worry.” Sn 4:16 To Sāriputta | sutta on dhammatalks.org
“All phenomena are not worth settling on” (MN37)
“Though struck by contacts,
a mendicant would not lament at all.
They wouldn’t pray for another life,
nor tremble in the face of dangers.” Snp 4.14 Tuvaṭakasutta
“Invest in the Buddha”: Ajahn Brahmali
“they long for nothing in the world.” Snp4.4
“may I realize undefiled freedom of heart…with my own insight” MN41 (an aspiration that can lead to rebirth in nirvana. It was preceded by a different aspiration: “‘If only, when my body breaks up, after death, I would be reborn in the company of the gods…”)
Just as a clean cloth rid of stains would properly absorb dye, in that very seat the stainless, immaculate vision of the Dhamma arose in the brahmin Brahmāyu: “Everything that has a beginning has an end.” MN91
“Life is swept along,
next-to-nothing its span.
For one swept to old age
no shelters exist.
Perceiving this danger in death,
one should drop the world’s bait
and look for peace.” Uttara Sutta (Thanissaro Bhikkhu translation)
May I “touch with thoughts of goodwill beings firm & infirm” Sn 4:16 To Sāriputta | sutta on dhammatalks.org
“Is there anything that I’m overcome with internally and haven’t given up, because of which I might not accurately know and see?" MN48
“Their mind becomes stilled internally; it settles, unifies (brought to singleness), and becomes immersed in samādhi.” MN119
"Before my awakening—when I was still unawakened but intent on awakening—I thought: ‘Why don’t I meditate by continually dividing my thoughts into two classes?’ So I assigned sensual, malicious, and cruel thoughts to one class. And I assigned thoughts of renunciation, good will, and harmlessness to the second class.” MN19
“This thought of sensual desire has arisen in me. This leads to my own affliction, to others’ affliction, and to the affliction of both; it obstructs wisdom, causes difficulties, and leads away from Nibbāna.”
“these thoughts are unskillful, they’re blameworthy, and they result in suffering.” MN20
“If I can take care of this moment, the next moment will take care of itself” Ayya Vayama https://youtu.be/u4uuVurqC1A?si=1K2lDdWJuvJoPzrt
(A calm mind in this moment gifts our future selves with a calm mind)
“‘So it seems that these phenomena, not having been, come to be; and having come to be, they flit away.’ “ Mn111
“In the seen, there is just the seen…When there is no you in connection with that, there is no you there…This, just this, is the end of stress.” Ud 1.10 (Bāhiya Sutta)
“This is empty of a self or what belongs to a self.” MN106
“This is not mine, this is not I, this is not my self.” Mn109
“How can I help this person find peace in this moment” Ayya Vayama https://youtu.be/u4uuVurqC1A?si=1K2lDdWJuvJoPzrt
“Regard him as one who points out treasure, the wise one who seeing your faults rebukes you. Stay with this sort of sage. For the one who stays with a sage of this sort, things get better, not worse.” Dhp 76
“When reprimanded with words,
[may i]—mindful—
rejoice” Sn 4:16 To Sāriputta | sutta on dhammatalks.org
“Craving is unfaithful to it’s promise” Ajahn Brahmali, “The Middle Way” 11/1/2013 talk at 16:30 min mark
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Odd how people interested in religion spend so much time trying to convert the obvious meaning of their texts that are their authority.
Nanamoli Thera