Monthly Archives: October 2022

Do not come up with your own rules. If you cannot comprehend the way, on a far journey, how would you know the road? Progress is not about far or near; delusion can block you as firmly as the mountains … Continue reading →

The greatest evil is to hold religious prejudice and to criticize other people without knowing their mind. Give up prejudice as if it were poison. —Padmasambhava

Doing what I like instead of what is right —pursuing pleasure instead of virtue— is the cause of all suffering. —TN

On the strength of the merit of uttering the Buddha’s Name, you will, during every repetition, purify the karma which involved you in births and deaths during eighty million eons. You will, while dying, see a golden lotus-flower, like the … Continue reading →

If you think, “I will have no karmic ripening if I engage in the ten nonvirtues,” you should be able to accept the ten nonvirtuous actions of others directed at yourself –even if they kill you. Can you do that? … Continue reading →

Buddha goes everywhere, roaming the kingdoms and talking with living beings, yet he never strays for a single thought from shining purity. —Zen Master Rinzai

Many things threaten life, more ephemeral than a bubble of water. It is amazing to exhale after inhaling and to awake from sleep. —Nagarjuna

The only place is here. The only time is now. These are the present circumstances. Reality is inescapable. Liberation is freedom from hope and fear, good and bad, purity and impurity, life and death, gods and demons, judgment and superstition, … Continue reading →

Awareness is a natural state; it’s normal. It isn’t a compounded state that depends on other conditions. —Ajahn Sumedho

Those who have no restraint as regards the stomach will kill living beings or steal for the sake of their stomachs. It was bearing this in mind that the Blessed One said, “Do not be heedless in standing for alms, … Continue reading →