It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, ... Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different. —Hiroshi Sugimoto >>More Hiroshi Sugimoto Quotations... If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. —Phil Jackson >>More Phil Jackson Quotati...
Not long after the Buddha’s death (and perhaps even before) donations from lay people became so large that it enabled monks and nuns to live in monasteries with their own land. That land could of course not be worked by the monks themselves, so they had people who did it for them liv...
This is Samsara, the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that every soul is said to go through. It’s like a cosmic merry-go-round, and each ride represents a different life. The Vedas, ancient Indian scriptures, tell us there are 8,400,000 different forms of life, and we’ve all...
11. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. 12. When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings...
Aging & death (Jara-marana) All the links are interrelated and dependent on each other, thus there is no starting point nor end point-a cyclic phenomenon. Dividing the 12 links into three groups- Defilement (Klesha)–ignorance, craving and clinging. Defilement is the impurities of mind resulti...
Aging & death (Jara-marana) All the links are interrelated and dependent on each other, thus there is no starting point nor end point-a cyclic phenomenon. Dividing the 12 links into three groups- Defilement (Klesha)–ignorance, craving and clinging. Defilement is the impurities of mind resulti...
Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to...
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In my novels, even when things are “bad,” there is more good than bad. Buddha teaches often that we have to discern between “good” and “bad” even as we know these are illusory. Many teachings expound on how there is NO “good” or “bad,” no “birth” and no “death,” ...
Ani Pema first met Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1972, and at the urging of Chime Rinpoche, she took him as her root guru (“Ani” is a Tibetan honorific for a nun). She studied with him from 1974 until his death in 1987. Trungpa Rinpoche’s son, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, appointed ...