http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 en-US 60 <p>Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. That seems so simple--except when we substitute for real practice some idea that we should be different or better than we are, or that our lives should be different from the way they are. When we substitute our ideas about what should be (such notions as "I should not be angry or confused or unwilling") for our life as it truly is, then we're off base and our practice is barren.</p> <p>~ Charlotte Joko Beck</p> Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:36:46 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8451569 An Eternal Now http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style= ""><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Thus shall ye think of all 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.</span></span></p> <p class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style= ""><span style="font-family: Calibri;">- That which can be called the Tao ( The way ) is not the Eternal Tao. That which can be called the Name is not the eternal Name. Tao is both one and many; as One, it is the nameless root of heaven and miracle of Tao. A mind lost in its own desire, sees only the forms of this world. Tao and this world seem different, but in truth they are one and the same. The only difference is in the name we give them. How deep and mysterious this unity is. How profound, how great! It is the truth beyond the truth, the mystery beyond the mind. It is the path to all wonders, the gate to the ecstatic nature of everything! The whole world we travel with our thoughts, finding nowhere anyone as precious as one’s own self. Since every person is so precious to themselves, let the self-respecting harm no other being.</span></span></p> <p class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style= ""><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(Tao Te Ching)</span></span></p> <p class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style= ""><span style="font-family: Calibri;">- The Buddha said, “ To be attached to a certain view and to look down upon other views as inferior-this the wise call a fetter ( chain ).</span></span></p> Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:13:33 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8450110 Isis http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>"The world is given only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one."</p> <p>~ Physicist Erwin Schrodinger</p> Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:59:05 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8397812 An Eternal Now http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>梦里明明有六趣</p> <p>觉后空空无大千</p> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:04:53 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8396219 An Eternal Now http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>Easily seen are others' faults; hard indeed it is to see one's own fault.</p> <p>It is not that something is wrong with the world, but something is wrong with us.</p> <p>Thinking people have realised that the course of human history is determined not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in the hearts of men.</p> <p>We can make use of this life for a better purpose by being service others, by cultivating morality, by training the mind and living as cultured men in peace and harmony with the rest of the world.</p> <p>Julian Huxley said: Life should lead to the fufilment of innumerable possibilities - physical, mental, spiritual and so forth - What man is capble of. And humanity is capable of greater and nobler things.</p> <p>Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat. ~ Buddha</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:09:02 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8393835 Isis http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>Whoever is attached to a result for this life, is not a Dharma person.</p> <p>The purpose of Dharma is liberation, not feeling better in this life. The purpose of Dharma is not the cultivation of mundane compassion, and so on.<br /> <br /> The purpose of Dharma is to control afflictions, then overcome them, and finally, to attain a state of total omniscience and freedom.</p> <p>~ Loppon Namdrol</p> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:19:18 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8393084 An Eternal Now http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>Pain and happiness are like two sides of a coin. A person who is able to distill happiness from painful experiences enjoys the highest form of happiness.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>~ Ven. Shi Fazhao</p> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:06:44 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8392187 cycle http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>We often seek to experience only the first half of the process of impermanence - wishing to live but not die; to gain but not to lose; to fall in love but not to break up. However, in order to enjoy true freedom we have to understand and accept the full cycle of impermanence and not hold on to the part that we like obstinately.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>~ Ven. Shi Leqian</p> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:04:32 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8392186 cycle http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>愤怒，对有些人来说，像刻在石壁上的文字般，能持续数百年。愤怒，对有些人来说，像写在沙滩上的文字般，很快就消失于无形。</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>~达摩难陀法师</p> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:46:36 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8389785 cycle http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>天上间的喜乐，比不上欲求消失的欢愉。</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>~ 佛陀</p> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:37:35 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8389745 cycle http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>No matter how many waves may arise, they never depart from the ocean, even in the slightest. Similarly, whether still or in movement, the mind never departs from awareness or emptiness, even in the slightest.</p> <p>~ Flight of the Garuda, <span><strong><strong>Shabkar Tsokdrug Rangdrol</strong></strong></span></p> Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:13:29 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8384313 An Eternal Now http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by An Eternal Now:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>Dunnu, my friend's online dharma community sent me this through e-mail.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Oic. Thank for the sharing.</p> <p>/\</p> Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:42:40 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8382199 Isis http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by Isis:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>I wonder if the book that you are reading got explaination on the verses ?</p> <p>hee what book is that ?</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Dunnu, my friend's online dharma community sent me this through e-mail.</p> Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:06:39 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8381505 An Eternal Now http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by An Eternal Now:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div><a href="http://multiply.com/gi/khyentsemandala:journal:128" rel="nofollow"></a>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div> <div><strong>Song of "How to Gain Happiness &amp; Avoid Suffering"</strong></div> <div><br /></div> <div><em>by Milarepa</em><br /></div> <div><br /></div> <div>He who knows his own nature<br /> And the imminent Truth,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who wrongly acts<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who rests in the state of nature.<br /> And is ever spontaneously pure,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who surrenders to impulses and environments,<br /> Being subject to hatred and to cravings,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who realizes that all things are the Dharmakaya,<br /> Freed from all fears, hopes, and doubts,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who is impatient, talkative &amp; rash,<br /> Being overpowered by worldly desire,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who knows that all things are his mind,<br /> That all with which he meets are friendly<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who squanders his life away,<br /> Carrying remorse to his grave,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who has a thorough Realization,<br /> At ease in self-sustaining Reality,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who is enslaved by his desires,<br /> Insatiable and always longing,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who is freed from all forms without effort,<br /> Always immersed in the Experience,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who merely follows words,<br /> Unseeing of the mind,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who renounces all worldly things,<br /> Free from worry and consideration,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> A Buddhist who measures and stores up grain,<br /> Cherishing the women and relatives he loves,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> A yogi who discards all worldly ties,<br /> Realizing all is magic and illusion,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who diverts himself, taxing<br /> His body and mind with sensuality<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> A yogi who rides the horse of diligence<br /> Toward the Land of Liberation,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who is weighted with a stone<br /> That pulls him to the bottom of Samsara<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who avoids misunderstandings,<br /> Amused at the play of his own mind,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who has sworn to practice the Dharma<br /> But indulges in sinful deeds<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who has done away with fears, and hopes, and doubts,<br /> Perpetually absorbed in the State of Origin,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who submits to the will of others -<br /> Obsequious, artificial, and ingratiating,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who leaves all "this and that" behind<br /> Always practicing pure Dharma<br /> Is ever glad.<br /> <br /> "The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa" Pg 459-461</div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p>I wonder if the book that you are reading got explaination on the verses ?</p> <p>hee what book is that ?</p> Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:30:43 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8380249 Isis http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>执着有我，是我； 执着无我，也是我。</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>~ 圣严法师</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:05:35 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8377204 cycle http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>由理解佛法而认识‘无我，并不等于亲证‘无我’。</p> <p>我有一篇短文，题为 [从小我到无我] ， 说明小我也是有用，若无小我，即无能够主宰生活方向的人，亦无能够发心修行的人。</p> <p> &nbsp;由修行而从各个分别的小我，可进而成为全体统一的大我，在从大我的彻底粉碎，即是到了大地落沉，虚空也无的境地，才是无我。此一无我，是无小我，也无大我，即是 [无我相，无人相，无众生相，无寿者相]。</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>~ 圣严法师， [学佛群疑]</p> Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:01:36 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8377180 cycle http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <blockquote> <div class="quote_from">Originally posted by An Eternal Now:</div> <div class="quote_body"> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div><a href="http://multiply.com/gi/khyentsemandala:journal:128" rel="nofollow"></a>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div> <div><strong>Song of "How to Gain Happiness &amp; Avoid Suffering"</strong></div> <div><br /></div> <div><em>by Milarepa</em><br /></div> <div><br /></div> <div>He who knows his own nature<br /> And the imminent Truth,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who wrongly acts<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who rests in the state of nature.<br /> And is ever spontaneously pure,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who surrenders to impulses and environments,<br /> Being subject to hatred and to cravings,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who realizes that all things are the Dharmakaya,<br /> Freed from all fears, hopes, and doubts,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who is impatient, talkative &amp; rash,<br /> Being overpowered by worldly desire,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who knows that all things are his mind,<br /> That all with which he meets are friendly<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who squanders his life away,<br /> Carrying remorse to his grave,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who has a thorough Realization,<br /> At ease in self-sustaining Reality,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who is enslaved by his desires,<br /> Insatiable and always longing,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who is freed from all forms without effort,<br /> Always immersed in the Experience,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who merely follows words,<br /> Unseeing of the mind,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who renounces all worldly things,<br /> Free from worry and consideration,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> A Buddhist who measures and stores up grain,<br /> Cherishing the women and relatives he loves,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> A yogi who discards all worldly ties,<br /> Realizing all is magic and illusion,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who diverts himself, taxing<br /> His body and mind with sensuality<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> A yogi who rides the horse of diligence<br /> Toward the Land of Liberation,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who is weighted with a stone<br /> That pulls him to the bottom of Samsara<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who avoids misunderstandings,<br /> Amused at the play of his own mind,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who has sworn to practice the Dharma<br /> But indulges in sinful deeds<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who has done away with fears, and hopes, and doubts,<br /> Perpetually absorbed in the State of Origin,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who submits to the will of others -<br /> Obsequious, artificial, and ingratiating,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who leaves all "this and that" behind<br /> Always practicing pure Dharma<br /> Is ever glad.<br /> <br /> "The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa" Pg 459-461</div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <p>Very nice!</p> Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:11:45 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8376157 Maggie.meepok http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class=""><a href= "http://multiply.com/gi/khyentsemandala:journal:128" rel= "nofollow"></a> &nbsp;</div> <div class=""> <div class=""> <div class=""><strong>Song of "How to Gain Happiness &amp; Avoid Suffering"</strong></div> <div class=""><br /></div> <div class=""><em>by Milarepa</em><br /></div> <div class=""><br /></div> <div class="">He who knows his own nature<br /> And the imminent Truth,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who wrongly acts<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who rests in the state of nature.<br /> And is ever spontaneously pure,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who surrenders to impulses and environments,<br /> Being subject to hatred and to cravings,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who realizes that all things are the Dharmakaya,<br /> Freed from all fears, hopes, and doubts,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who is impatient, talkative &amp; rash,<br /> Being overpowered by worldly desire,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who knows that all things are his mind,<br /> That all with which he meets are friendly<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who squanders his life away,<br /> Carrying remorse to his grave,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who has a thorough Realization,<br /> At ease in self-sustaining Reality,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who is enslaved by his desires,<br /> Insatiable and always longing,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who is freed from all forms without effort,<br /> Always immersed in the Experience,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who merely follows words,<br /> Unseeing of the mind,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who renounces all worldly things,<br /> Free from worry and consideration,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> A Buddhist who measures and stores up grain,<br /> Cherishing the women and relatives he loves,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> A yogi who discards all worldly ties,<br /> Realizing all is magic and illusion,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who diverts himself, taxing<br /> His body and mind with sensuality<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> A yogi who rides the horse of diligence<br /> Toward the Land of Liberation,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who is weighted with a stone<br /> That pulls him to the bottom of Samsara<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who avoids misunderstandings,<br /> Amused at the play of his own mind,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who has sworn to practice the Dharma<br /> But indulges in sinful deeds<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who has done away with fears, and hopes, and doubts,<br /> Perpetually absorbed in the State of Origin,<br /> Is ever joyful.<br /> He who submits to the will of others -<br /> Obsequious, artificial, and ingratiating,<br /> Is ever sad.<br /> <br /> He who leaves all "this and that" behind<br /> Always practicing pure Dharma<br /> Is ever glad.<br /> <br /> "The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa" Pg 459-461</div> </div> </div> Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:37:12 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8357795 An Eternal Now http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.<br /> ---------------</p> <p><br /> The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.</p> <p>--------------</p> <p>When a man is free from all sense pleasures and depends on nothingness he<br /> is free in the supreme freedom from perception. He will stay there and<br /> not return again.</p> <p><br /> It is like a flame struck by a sudden gust of wind. In a flash it has<br /> gone out and nothing more can be known about it. It is the same with a<br /> wise man freed from mental existence: in a flash he has gone out and<br /> nothing more can be known about him.</p> <p><br /> When a person has gone out, then there is nothing by which you can measure<br /> him. That by which he can be talked about is no longer there for him; you<br /> cannot say that he does not exist. When all ways of being, all phenomena<br /> are removed, then all ways of description have also been removed.</p> <p>&nbsp;~ Buddha</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:50:02 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8350362 Isis http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>A Note To My Thoughts- A Poem by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche<br /> <br /> <strong>A Note To My Thoughts</strong><br /> <br /> Past, isn't it simply a fleeting thought?<br /> Future, isn't it just a projection of mind?<br /> Aren't they all simply just happening now?<br /> What there is is only this moment --<br /> So fresh, yet just another fleeting nowness!<br /> The world that you see,<br /> And the sounds that you hear,<br /> Thoughts that arise randomly,<br /> Aren't they all just happening in nowness?<br /> Why don't you just let go of the past and future thoughts?<br /> Why can't you simply relax in this beautiful world now?<br /> Why do you sacrifice your present for your pure imaginations?<br /> Hey! Hey! Wake up you, lazy dzogchen lama!<br /> dpr</p> <p>April 13, 2007</p> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:07:23 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8350360 Isis http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <h4><a name="miser" rel="nofollow" id="miser"></a></h4> <p><strong>Miserliness</strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The normal hand open and closes</span></p> <p>A devotee told Chan Master Moxian, "My wife is extremely stingy. She will not spend even a penny on charity. Could you please come to my house and talk to her about engaging in benevolent deeds?" Very compassionately, Chan Master Moxian agreed.</p> <p>The next day, when he went to the devotee's house, the wife came out to receive him. True to her miserly nature, she did not even offer Chan Master Moxian a cup of tea. Chan Master sat down and held out his fist, asking, "Madame, look at my hand. What would you think if my hand remained constantly in a fist?" The wife responded, "If it remained in a fist, then your hand is deformed! Something must be wrong with it."</p> <p>Chan Master repeated her words back to her, saying, "It is deformed!" In the meantime, he opened up his fist and held out a flat palm to her, asking, "Were it like this all the time, what do you think?" The wife responded, "That would be deformed too!"</p> <p>Seizing this opportunity, Chan Master immediately came to the point, saying, "Madame, you are right! A constant closed fist and a constant opened palm are both deformed. It is the same with the way we use money. If we are always close-fisted, only concerned about getting more money, but never consider giving, we are deformed. If we are always open-handed, only thinking about spending but not saving, we are deformed as well. Money should flow like a smooth current. When it comes in, it should flow out too. There should be a balance in your receiving and giving."</p> <p><em>A story by Venerable Master Hsing Yun</em></p> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:46:57 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8350355 Isis http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <div><strong>Treasury of Wish-Fulfilling Gems</strong><br /> excerpt: chapter 18<br /> <strong>by Longchenpa</strong><br /> translated by Robert Thurman</div> <p><br /> <br /> Once you have completed such contemplations<br /> you should develop experiential wisdom in your process<br /> Among the three paths of trascendence in the three Vehicles<br /> Here you enter the unexcelled, essential import.<br /> First, devote yourself to understanding the nature of reality.<br /> <br /> Although it takes many forms, depending on the Vehicle,<br /> The definitive essence is the indivisible reality<br /> Which is the secret treasury of all Buddhas.<br /> It is the natural transparency intuition<br /> Beginninglessly peaceful, free from perplexity.<br /> Like sun and sky, spontaneous and uncreated.<br /> <br /> Since its natural great purity is primally present,<br /> It is vision and voidness inseparable,<br /> Free of proof and rejection, going and coming.<br /> Beyond the realm of superficial determinations and distinctions,<br /> Its indivisible reality is neither proven nor unproven,<br /> Experientially vision an voidness are nondual;<br /> This reality is called "indivisible."<br /> <br /> When analyzed by the conventional two realities,<br /> All things in cyclic life are mistaken appearances;<br /> Untrue and deceptive, they are superficial realities.<br /> Things of Nirvana are profound peace of translucency,<br /> Accepted as ultimate reality, changeless in nature.<br /> <br /> This manifold appearances is thus superficial.<br /> Illusion, like the reflection of the moon in water,<br /> It lacks the intrinsic reality it appears to have.<br /> When examined, it lacks basis, root, and substance,<br /> Free of intrinsic identity, empty as space.<br /> When unexamined, this illusory, enticing diversity<br /> Evolves as a relativistic distortion of instinct.<br /> <br /> Thus, just like a datura hallucination,<br /> These things are selfless and unreal.<br /> Since that, in reality, is their way of being,<br /> The "ultimate appears but superficially,<br /> Though appearing, in reality it is unborn;<br /> So naturally its reality is indivisible.<br /> <br /> Its natural primal purity<br /> And its transparent ultimacy are nondual,<br /> So the life-cycle and liberation are nondual,<br /> And its reality is indivisible.<br /> <br /> Since the life-cycle appears while lacking reality,<br /> In that ultimate realm of realitylessness<br /> Nothing can be distinguished as separate and distinct,<br /> And life-cycle and liberation are taught as equality.<br /> Other ideas are false intellectual notions,<br /> Quite confused about the nature of reality.<br /> <br /> Causality exists as it appears to deceptive experience,<br /> So cherish understanding of ethical choice.<br /> The changeless nature of ultimate reality<br /> Is transparency, the Bliss Lord of essence, spontaneity,<br /> Natural indivisible awareness of clarity-void.<br /> <br /> This is the mandala of natural spontaneity<br /> Primal natural perfection, essence of enlightenment,<br /> Purity, unfabricated, free from partiality,<br /> Profound peace, body and wisdom inseparable.<br /> <br /> It has examples known to all beings;<br /> Known to the wise as like underground gold,<br /> A lamp in a vase, a body in a lotus.<br /> Just as a pauper has a treasure underground<br /> But doesn't know and so stays poor,<br /> Though you possess natural enlightenment,<br /> It is hidden by the earth of body, speech, and eightfold mind,<br /> So you stay poor, impoverished by the ills of life.<br /> <br /> Just as a clairvoyant person can see<br /> And find a way to take out the treasure<br /> To perfect the wealth of self and other,<br /> So the holy ones teach that reality<br /> And show how enlightenment can be found within,<br /> The wish-granting gem that fulfills both aims.<br /> <br /> Just as a lamp in a vase might be bright<br /> But cannot illuminate, blocked by the vase,<br /> So the essential Truth Body abides within<br /> Yet does not show, blocked by the vase of obscuration.<br /> <br /> But it does show when the vase is broken,<br /> Just as the world lamp illumines all lands,<br /> When all obscurations are removed.<br /> Though the Bliss-Lord Body is in the lotus,<br /> It does not show when the lotus is closed<br /> So the thousands petals of subjects and objects block<br /> One's vision of the self-luminous Lord of Victors.<br /> <br /> When the petals open, it is clear,<br /> There is great liberation from the lotus of duality.<br /> The three Buddha Bodies become naturally evident.<br /> Thus please understand the reality<br /> That ultimate-realm translucency<br /> Exists within yourself!<br /> <br /> This reality has names of many different kinds.<br /> It is "the realm that transcends life and liberation<br /> And the primally present "natural spontaneity,"<br /> As the "essential realm" obscured by defilements,<br /> As the "ultimate truth," the condition of reality,<br /> As the originally pure "stainless translucency,"<br /> As the "central reality" that dispels extremisms,<br /> As the "transcendent wisdom" beyond fabrications,<br /> As the "indivisible reality" clear-void-purity,<br /> As the "Suchness" reality free of death transitions.<br /> <br /> Such names are accepted by the clear-seeing wise.<br /> Not understanding this, one adopts a nihilistic voidness,<br /> Though claiming to avoid extremes of being and nothing,<br /> Since one does not know the ground of freedom<br /> And longs to escape to the peak of existence,<br /> One falls outside this profound teaching,<br /> Sits empty-minded, fit to rub with dust!<br /> <br /> The Teacher taught the treasury of Dharma,<br /> The path of the pinnacle, clear light, essence of all,<br /> The "reality of the ground spontaneity."<br /> Understanding this ultimate profound view,<br /> Liberates one from resistance and obscuration,<br /> frees from all absolutism and nihilism.<br /> <br /> One's practice is fruitful, one soon becomes enlightened,,<br /> One gains the eye to see all Sutras and Tantras.<br /> Therefore be sure to realize the reality of clear light!</p> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:22:42 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8350337 Isis http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>不生，不灭，不断，不常，不一，不异， 不来，不去，戏论寂灭，吉祥缘起。</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>~ 龙树</p> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:45:41 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8345579 cycle http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <p>We don't see things as they are, we see thing as we are - Anais&nbsp; Nin,&nbsp;US author and diarist</p> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:31:00 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8336619 Isis http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948 <blockquote> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><span class="">- Shunryu Suzuki-roshi</span></p> </blockquote> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:57:09 +0800 fm2007.sgforums.com:1728:122948:8329126 An Eternal Now http://fm2007.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/122948