Today
while begging,
I got caught in a shower.
For some time, I found shelter
in an old shrine. Laugh if you like at
the one jar and one bowl I own!
Humble and cleansed —
my life a broken
house.
Author Archives → Brian
this world is a place of preparation
This world is
a place of preparation where
one is given many lessons and passes
many tests. Choose less over more in it.
Be satisfied with what you have, even
if it is less than what others
have. In fact, prefer to
have less.
This world is
not bad — on the contrary,
it is the field of the hereafter.
What you plant here, you will reap
there. This world is the way to
eternal bliss and so is good —
worthy to be cherished
and to be praised.
January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968
Darkness
cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love
can do that.
January 15, 1929 ~ April 4, 1968
do you imagine the universe is agitated?
Do you
imagine the universe
is agitated? Go into the desert
at night and look out at the stars.
This practice should answer
the question.
The superior
person settles her mind as
the universe settles the stars in the
sky. By connecting her mind with the
subtle origin, she calms it. Once
calmed, it naturally expands,
and ultimately her mind
becomes as vast and
immeasurable as
the night
sky.
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i choose these old buddhas
We are
in the habit of saying
that it was not in our power
to choose the parents who were
allotted to us, that they were given
to us by chance. But we can choose whose
children we would like to be. There are households
of the noblest intellects: choose the one into which you wish
to be adopted, and you will inherit not only their name
but their property too. Nor will this property
need to be guarded meanly or grudgingly:
the more it is shared out,
the greater it will
become.
