Kobori Roshi : There is a Buddha for those who do not know what he is really – video
There is a Buddha for those who do not know what he is really, there is no Buddha for those who know what he is really .
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 >
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
be apprehended. … Read the rest >
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 >