Daily Buddhist Wisdom ~ 5/4/2012

Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	So much fear and desire come from that commitment to 'I am'--to being somebody. Eventually they take us to anxiety and despair; life seems much more difficult and painful than it really is. But when we just observe life for what it is, then it's all right: the delights, the beauty, the pleasures are just that. - Ajahn Sumedho, "Seeing the Way"

Daily Buddhist Wisdom ~ 4/3/2012

Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	If you turn your light inwardly, you will find what is esoteric within you. - The Sutra of Hui Neng

Tricycle Daily Dharma May 3, 2012 ~ The First Glimpse of Prajna

Tricycle Daily Dharma May 3, 2012

The First Glimpse of Prajna

It is as if we were entering a school to study a certain discipline with great, wise, learned people. The first self-conscious awareness we would have is a sense of our own ignorance, how we feel extraordinarily stupid, clumsy, and dumb. At the same time, we begin to get wind of the knowledge; otherwise, we would have no reference point to experience ourselves being dumb. The first glimpse of prajna is like that.
 
- Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, "A Very Practical Joke"

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Tricycle Daily Dharma May 2, 2012 ~ Maintaining Not Knowing Mind

Tricycle Daily Dharma May 2, 2012

Maintaining Not Knowing Mind

As soon as we think we know something, then we become rigid and unresponsive. You know the famous phrase: 'For the beginner there are many possibilities, but for the expert there are few.' Maintaining a mind of 'not knowing' allows us to respond to situations with openness, freshness, and joy.
 
- Gerry Shishin Wick Roshi, "Give and Take: On Studying Koans"

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Daily Buddhist Wisdom ~ 4/2/2012

Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	Ajita asked: "What is it that smothers the world and makes it so hard to see? What is it that pollutes the world and seems to threaten it?" The Buddha answered: "It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness and greed that make it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear." - Sutta Nipata

Daily Buddhist Wisdom ~ 5/1/2012

Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope. - His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Tricycle Daily Dharma May 1, 2012 ~ Finding Your Place

Tricycle Daily Dharma May 1, 2012

Finding Your Place

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point; for the place, the way, is neither large nor small, neither yours nor others’. The place, the way, has not carried over from the past, and it is not merely arising now.
 
- Eihei Dogen Zenji, "Finding Your Place"

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