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Powerful dharma one-liners
Dark Night Yogi, modificat fa 14 anys at 15/05/10 06:13
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Powerful dharma one-liners
Apunts: 138 Data d'incorporació: 25/08/09 Publicacions recents
Something you write down, or tell yourself that resonates well and actually works..
Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh have a lot of these.
One that helped me from the time i started and still helps me is "You can't win".
Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh have a lot of these.
One that helped me from the time i started and still helps me is "You can't win".
Ruth Laura Edlund, modificat fa 14 anys at 15/05/10 09:40
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
Apunts: 32 Data d'incorporació: 13/01/10 Publicacions recentsDark Night Yogi:
Something you write down, or tell yourself that resonates well and actually works..
Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh have a lot of these.
One that helped me from the time i started and still helps me is "You can't win".
Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh have a lot of these.
One that helped me from the time i started and still helps me is "You can't win".
"Circumstances are always neutral."
Brian , modificat fa 14 anys at 15/05/10 11:36
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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All objects of awareness are not the subject; mind and body are objects of awareness; therefore mind and body are not the subject.
Stop and see. - Shinzen Young
Awakening comes from insight into experience, not from re-shaping experience. - Duncan Barford
What is the mind doing?
What am I not seeing clearly?
Who am I in direct experiential terms? Who is it that knows? - Daniel Ingram
Stop and see. - Shinzen Young
Awakening comes from insight into experience, not from re-shaping experience. - Duncan Barford
What is the mind doing?
What am I not seeing clearly?
Who am I in direct experiential terms? Who is it that knows? - Daniel Ingram
Dark Night Yogi, modificat fa 14 anys at 16/05/10 00:54
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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"Path or not path" - Daniel Ingram or Mahasi Sayadaw?
-got this one posted on my wall when I first reached equanimity.
-got this one posted on my wall when I first reached equanimity.
Daniel M Ingram, modificat fa 14 anys at 16/05/10 02:01
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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"Some people say there is Mind. I say there is no mind, but never mind." -Abbot of the Nipponji temple in Body Gaya, 1995
"In the thinking, just the thought." -The Buddha
"All the constituents of being are impermanent." -The Buddha
Those are some of my favorites.
"In the thinking, just the thought." -The Buddha
"All the constituents of being are impermanent." -The Buddha
Those are some of my favorites.
This Good Self, modificat fa 14 anys at 16/05/10 08:38
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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Some Taoist quotes I like:
"The most extensive knowledge does not necessarily know it; reasoning will not make men wise in it. The sages have decided against both these methods".
"A dog is not reckoned good because he barks well, and a man is not reckoned wise because he speaks skillfully".
"Non-action does not mean doing nothing and keeping silent. Let everything be
allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied".
"The most extensive knowledge does not necessarily know it; reasoning will not make men wise in it. The sages have decided against both these methods".
"A dog is not reckoned good because he barks well, and a man is not reckoned wise because he speaks skillfully".
"Non-action does not mean doing nothing and keeping silent. Let everything be
allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied".
Dark Night Yogi, modificat fa 14 anys at 16/05/10 09:20
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
Apunts: 138 Data d'incorporació: 25/08/09 Publicacions recents
"Be aware of your desperation" - interpreting S.N Goenka in his discourse. I think he says "be aware of your respiration" but it rings to me as desperation and thats more motivating.
Becky ZZ, modificat fa 14 anys at 16/05/10 13:40
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
Apunts: 10 Data d'incorporació: 22/08/09 Publicacions recentsConstance Casey, modificat fa 14 anys at 16/05/10 22:54
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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I also know the entire passage by heart, but this line often has sounded out--
"Living faith is discomforting to the last degree...." from the Open Door by Helen Keller
Recently, (from the same passage), I heard this part:
"Passive faith is no more a force than sight is in an eye that does not look or search out."
I can send you the entire passage if you like.
"Living faith is discomforting to the last degree...." from the Open Door by Helen Keller
Recently, (from the same passage), I heard this part:
"Passive faith is no more a force than sight is in an eye that does not look or search out."
I can send you the entire passage if you like.
Constance Casey, modificat fa 14 anys at 16/05/10 22:58
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
Apunts: 50 Data d'incorporació: 21/09/09 Publicacions recents
There is another that came over and over again:
"Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point." --from the chapter "How It Works", The Big Book of A.A.
"Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point." --from the chapter "How It Works", The Big Book of A.A.
Jeff Grove, modificat fa 14 anys at 17/05/10 03:14
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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That it will never come again, Is what makes life so sweet - Emily Dickenson
Awareness, Awareness, Awareness - Anthony De Mello
Awareness, Awareness, Awareness - Anthony De Mello
Trent , modificat fa 14 anys at 17/05/10 12:27
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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"Ask yourself: could I stay here forever?" - I think I first heard that said (or something similar) by Dan and have heard it many times and also from other people since then. I took it to mean this: "if my experience of life is not so absolutely perfect that I would not change a single thing even if (hypothetically) given the option to, then I have work to do."
Trent
Trent
Tom O, modificat fa 14 anys at 18/05/10 10:18
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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"Chance favours the prepared mind". Pasteur, via Daniel (who actually used "grace", a more apropos term here).
I use this to motivate me and my practice.
I use this to motivate me and my practice.
J Adam G, modificat fa 14 anys at 19/05/10 12:26
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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Various sutured-together parts from suttas about jhana, which I think apply to both vipassana and shamatha jhanas.
Warning about the dark night following the A&P, and instructions for dealing with it: "with the fading of rapture, he remains equanimous, mindful, & alert."
Instructions for reaching equanimity: "With the abandoning of sukha and dukkha — as with the earlier disappearance of joy and misery — he enters & remains in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity & mindfulness."
Warning about the dark night following the A&P, and instructions for dealing with it: "with the fading of rapture, he remains equanimous, mindful, & alert."
Instructions for reaching equanimity: "With the abandoning of sukha and dukkha — as with the earlier disappearance of joy and misery — he enters & remains in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity & mindfulness."
Guillermo Z, modificat fa 14 anys at 22/05/10 04:42
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
Apunts: 20 Data d'incorporació: 08/09/09 Publicacions recentsDaniel Johnson, modificat fa 14 anys at 22/05/10 18:25
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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These have all helped me a lot...
"Resistance is Futile"
- Star Trek
"Start Again. Start Again."
"Die Smilingly"
- S.N. Goenka (to be said with Goenka's voice)
"Do it (any pleasure, craving, etc.) all you want, it just won't make you happy. Believe it (any belief, thought, etc.) all you want, that just won't actually make it true." (paraphrased)
"The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing"
- Adyashanti
"And then there was this moment"
"Resistance is Futile"
- Star Trek
"Start Again. Start Again."
"Die Smilingly"
- S.N. Goenka (to be said with Goenka's voice)
"Do it (any pleasure, craving, etc.) all you want, it just won't make you happy. Believe it (any belief, thought, etc.) all you want, that just won't actually make it true." (paraphrased)
"The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing"
- Adyashanti
"And then there was this moment"
Tarver , modificat fa 12 anys at 10/01/12 20:55
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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Ken Wilbur (possibly quoting somebody else, I saw it in a video clip): "Satori is an accident; meditation makes one accident-prone."
Jesse Cooper Levy, modificat fa 12 anys at 06/02/12 16:13
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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There are stones in path...there are thorns on the path...So? Put on your shoes and walk the path! -Goenke Baby
Ever tried?
Ever failed?
No matter.
Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
Klesha SMASH! -Hulk Ganesha
Ever tried?
Ever failed?
No matter.
Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
Klesha SMASH! -Hulk Ganesha
Michael Urbanski, modificat fa 12 anys at 08/02/12 10:28
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RE: Powerful dharma one-liners
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Some from forthright Deleuze:
“A desire lacking nothing, a flux that overcomes barriers and codes, a name that no longer designates any self whatsoever. He has simply ceased being afraid of becoming mad. He experiences and lives himself as the sublime sickness that will no longer affect him.” – Deleuze
“Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theatre. What does schizoanalysis ask? Nothing more than a bit of a relation to the outside, a little real reality.” – Deleuze
“Sublimate fast or you’re out of here! Asshole!” – Guattari
“A desire lacking nothing, a flux that overcomes barriers and codes, a name that no longer designates any self whatsoever. He has simply ceased being afraid of becoming mad. He experiences and lives himself as the sublime sickness that will no longer affect him.” – Deleuze
“Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theatre. What does schizoanalysis ask? Nothing more than a bit of a relation to the outside, a little real reality.” – Deleuze
“Sublimate fast or you’re out of here! Asshole!” – Guattari