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30 June, 2014
On the journey...
“If you gain a mature companion, a
fellow traveler, right-living, enlightened
fellow traveler, right-living, enlightened
overcoming all dangers go with him,
gratified, mindful. If you don't gain a
mature companion, a fellow traveler,
right-living, enlightened go alone like
a king renouncing his kingdom, like the
elephant in the Matanga wilds, his herd.”
mature companion, a fellow traveler,
right-living, enlightened go alone like
a king renouncing his kingdom, like the
elephant in the Matanga wilds, his herd.”
Dhammapada:
Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
26 June, 2014
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20 June, 2014
Finding the gem...
Mahaparinirvana Sutra
19 June, 2014
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15 June, 2014
Benefits of altruism
HH The 14th Dalai Lama
14 June, 2014
Childhood by David Bates
Childhood, sweet and sunny childhood,
With its careless, thoughtless air,
Like the verdant, tangled wildwood,
Wants the training hand of care.
See it springing all around us --
Glad to know, and quick to learn;
Asking questions that confound us;
Teaching lessons in its turn.
Who loves not its joyous revel,
Leaping lightly on the lawn,
Up the knoll, along the level,
Free and graceful as a fawn?
Let it revel; it is nature
Giving to the little dears
Strength of limb, and healthful features,
For the toil of coming years.
He who checks a child with terror,
Stops its play, and stills its song,
Not alone commits an error,
But a great and moral wrong.
Give it play, and never fear it --
Active life is no defect;
Never, never break its spirit --
Curb it only to direct.
Would you dam the flowing river,
Thinking it would cease to flow?
Onward it must go forever --
Better teach it where to go.
Childhood is a fountain welling,
Trace its channel in the sand,
And its currents, spreading, swelling,
Will revive the withered land.
Childhood is the vernal season;
Trim and train the tender shoot;
Love is to the coming reason,
As the blossom to the fruit.
Tender twigs are bent and folded --
Art to nature beauty lends;
Childhood easily is moulded;
Manhood breaks, but seldom bends.
David Bates
13 June, 2014
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09 June, 2014
White Horses
As I gaze out to sea and sit on burning sand
Thoughts leaving the turmoil of suffering land
I contemplate the eternal movement of space
A deconstructed flow of beauty forms and grace
Vision's forms breathed to life, as dreams too
I see Ego's endless play through and through
From the delicate white curtain of magical mist
Crouching, ever ready it attempts a final twist
Two white proud horses appear and stand
I see their hooves poised on ever shifting sand
In an instant these creations cease, all is still
Such is the power of Mind's focused will
and I come home to the all abiding calm,
The only truly eternal balm.
Somwang ( Book of Poems)
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08 June, 2014
Flashes
Photo: Uncredited (source/artist unknown) -will
gladly credit
gladly credit
Myriad images:
faces, moments, feelings rise and die,
Landscapes, colours, pictures fleeting by.
Valley of the mind, meadow of the heart,
Endless waves in motion, the senses part
All that shimmers is but a dream,
From which we've yet to wean
Retreating from this endless show
Is the only place there is to know
It is here, it is now, it is clear
The freedom path to which to steer
Therein all is peace, bliss, complete
No shifting sands beneath our feet
Impossible to grasp, recount or define
is the true being of our Eternal Mind.
Somwang (Book of Poems)
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06 June, 2014
Nature of all...
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All creatures find their existence in me, but I am not limited by them.
Behold my divine mystery! These creatures do not really dwell in me,
and though I bring them forth and support them, I am not confined
within them. They move in me as the winds move in every direction in space.”
Bhagavad Gita
05 June, 2014
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