Yamada Mumon Roshi : when I see the moon, the moon is I
Sitting in zazen, I become nothing and everything become nothing, that is to say I and everything melt into One. So when I see a flower, the flower is I, when I see the moon, the moon is I. All things become I. There is no greater love than this.
Gerta Ital : Sudden Enlightenment
Unfortunately, most people who have decided to start working on themselves are usually too impatient.
They want to see ‘successes’ as soon as possible, otherwise they feel that Heaven hasn’t taken note of their efforts.
It is a strange paradox: nobody objects to the long years of training and study which are necessary for … Read the rest >
Are Nirvana and samsara one ? Huxley, the Perennial Philosophy
That nirvana and samsara are one is a fact about the nature of the Universe; but it is a fact which cannot be fully realized or directly experienced, except by souls far advanced in spirituality. For ordinary, nice, unregenerate people to accept this truth par hear-say, and to act upon it in practice, is … Read the rest >
Gerta Ital : Sudden Enlightenment
Unfortunately, most people who have decided to start working on themselves are usually too impatient. They want to see ‘successes’ as soon as possible, otherwise they feel that Heaven hasn’t taken note of their efforts. It is a strange paradox: nobody objects to the long years of training and study … Read the rest >
A Buddhist Prayer
Our only prayer is to be firm in our determination to give ourselves completely to the Buddha’sWay, so that no doubts arise however long the road seems to be.
To be light and easy in the four parts of our body, to be strong and undismayed in body and in mind.
To drive out … Read the rest >
Prajnaparamita
Subhuti asked: “Is perfect wisdom beyond thinking? Is it unimaginable and totally unique but nevertheless reaching the unreachable and attaining the unattainable?”
The Buddha replied: “Yes, Subhuti, it is exactly so. And why is perfect wisdom beyond thinking? It is because all its points of reference cannot be thought about but can … Read the rest >
Shurangama Sutra
World Honored One, I remember when, as many kalpas ago as there are sands in the Ganges, there was a Buddha in the world named Contemplating the World’s Sounds. It was under that Buddha that I brought forth the Bodhi-resolve. That Buddha taught me to enter samadhi through a process of hearing and reflecting.… Read the rest >
Ta-hui’s prayer which is recited daily in Zen monasteries.
My only prayer is to be firm in my determination to give myself completely to the Buddha’sWay, so that no doubts arise however long the road seems to be.
To be light and easy in the four parts of my body, to be strong and undismayed in body and in mind.
To drive out … Read the rest >