Look within

There is no fire like greed,

No crime like hatred,

No sorrow like separation,

No sickness like hunger of heart,

And no joy like the joy of freedom.

Health, contentment and trust

Are your greatest possessions,

And freedom your greatest joy.

Look within.

Be still.

Free from fear and attachment,

Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

Teksten er fra Dhammapada, og jeg har hentet den fra Teachings of the Buddha av Jack Kornfield.

Sky Watch

Two Kinds of Intelligence

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts
from books and from what the teacher says,
collecting information from the traditional sciences
as well as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.
You get ranked ahead or behind others
in regard to your competence in retaining
information. You stroll with this intelligence
in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more
marks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of tablet, one
already completed and preserved inside you.
A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness
in the center of the chest. This other intelligence
does not turn yellow or stagnate. It's fluid,
and it doesn't move from outside to inside
through conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead
from within you, moving out.

Rumi (1207-1273) har skrevet dette diktet. Han var en muslimsk mystiker og poet.
Jeg fant diktet i The Essential Rumi. I diktningen hans ser jeg paralleller til buddhismen (ikke-selv og buddha-natur). Hans dikt er fremdeles populær lesing, og søk på nettet gir mange treff.


Birgitta - foto CHIP

The Way

"Everything arises and passes away."

When you see this, you are above sorrow.

This is the shining way.

"Existence is sorrow."

Understand, and go beyond sorrow.

This is the way of brightness.

"Existence is illusion."

Understand, and go beyond.

This is the way of clarity.

Teksten er hentet fra thebigview.com.

Watery Wednesday

Om tanker

 "Det som vi kaller sinn, tanke eller bevissthet, munker, det skifter fra det ene øyeblikket til det neste. Det er som en ape som kaster seg fra tre til tre. Den griper tak i en grein, slipper den og griper den neste, bare for å slippe den og gripe tak i den neste igjen. Slik er også det vi kaller sinn, tanke eller bevissthet - det skifter fra det ene øyeblikket til det neste."

Fra Assutavasutta, Samyutta Nikaya

Teksten står i Buddhas budskap.

Blåveisknopp

Three Characteristics

"All formations are transient; all formations are subject to suffering; 

all things are without a self.

Therefore, whatever there be of form, of feeling, perception, 

mental formations, or consciousness,

whether past, present, or future, one's own or external, 

gross or subtle, lofty or low, far or near,

one should understand according to reality and true wisdom: 

This does not belong to me: this am I not; this is not my Self."

Anguttara Nikaya/Samyutta Nikaya

Også denne teksten er hentet fra Teachings of the Buddha av Jack Kornfield.

Dette med ikke-selv og tomhet blir forklart på en enkel måte i denne artikkelen.
Her er også emptiness forklart.