From ekp@excite.com Sun Jul 1 08:42:50 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <24541425.993973372279.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> All things are the same at their core but clinging to one and discarding another Is living in illusion. A mind is not a fit judge of itself. It is prejudiced in its own favor or disfavor. It cannot see anything objectively. Bodhi is far beyond all notions of good and evil, beyond all the pairs of opposites. Daydreams are illusions and flowers in the sky never bloom. They are figments of the imagination and not worth your consideration. Profit and Loss, right and wrong, coarse and fine. Let them all go. Stay awake. Keep your eyes open. Your daydreams will disappear. If you do not make judgments, everything will be exactly as it is supposed to be. Gatha of Seng T'san, Third Chan Patriarch Hsin-hsin-ming ----------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Speak not harshly to anyone, for those thus spoken to might retort. Indeed, angry speech hurts, and retaliation may overtake you. Dhammapada 133 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Mon Jul 2 07:08:08 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 23:08:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <2005329.994054088564.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> In the still night by the vacant window, Wrapped in monk’s robe I sit in meditation, Navel and nostrils lined up straight, Ears paired to the slope of shoulders. Window whitens, the moon comes up; Rain’s stopped, but drops go on dripping. Wonderful—the mood of this moment- Distant, vast, known to me only! - Ryokan (1758-1831) ----------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha O house-builder, you are seen! You will not build this house again. For your rafters are broken and your ridgepole shattered. My mind has reached the Unconditioned; I have attained the destruction of craving. Dhammapada 154 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Tue Jul 3 07:20:17 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 23:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <31660635.994141217530.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> The penetrating brilliance Of swords Wielded by followers of the Way Strikes at the enemy Lurking deep within Their own souls and bodies. - Morihei Ueshiba --------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha If you fear pain, if you dislike pain, don't do an evil deed in open or secret. If you're doing or will do an evil deed, you won't escape pain: it will catch you even as you run away. Udana V, 4 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Wed Jul 4 07:24:47 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 23:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <13113368.994227888025.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> What does the old master Do here? By the side of the rock He is hunting for a new verse. Suddenly a cool breeze Blows from the pine tree; Silently and quietly it Purifies his spirit and thought. - Shih t’ao (1641–1717) ------------------------------------------------ Daily Words of the Buddha One should do what one teaches others to do; if one would train others, one should be well controlled oneself. Difficult, indeed, is self-control. Dhammapada 159 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Jul 5 07:06:28 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 23:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <11474098.994313188443.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> Hard rain, our gathered Firewood scant. Lamp frozen, glimmers Not at night. In the cave, wind blows Stones and mud. Moss engravings, Weatherstrip rickety door. Brooks in torrent untiring; People’s words more and more rare. Where schemes calm heart? Sitting in the lotus, Wrapped in robes of Zen. - The Monk Hsu Yun ------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Hasten to do good; restrain your mind from evil. He who is slow in doing good, his mind delights in evil. Dhammapada 116 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Jul 6 07:09:46 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 23:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <32591281.994399787343.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> Don’t tire your mind by worrying about what is real and what isn’t, About what to accept and what to reject. If you want to know the One, let your senses experience what comes your way, But don’t be swayed and don’t involve yourself in what comes. The wise man acts without emotion and seems not to be acting at all. The ignorant man lets his emotions get involved. The wise man knows that all things are part of the One. The ignorant man sees differences everywhere. Gatha of Seng T'san, Third Chan Patriarch Hsin-hsin-ming ----------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha There is no more worldly existence for the wise one who, like the earth, resents nothing, who is firm as a high pillar and as pure as a deep pool free from mud. Dhammapada 95 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Sat Jul 7 09:31:48 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 01:31:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <18320803.994494708583.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> People are always looking for the easy way. The hard way – the way learned by difficult experience and painful realizations – doesn’t interest them. They want a short-cut. True Dharma seekers are afraid of short-cuts. They know better. They know that without effort, there’s no sense of accomplishment. It’s that sense that keeps them going. People who don’t appreciate the struggles of climbing lack understanding of where they’ve been, awareness of who they are, and determination to continue climbing. That’s why they never attain the Dharma. Maxims of Master Han Shan ----------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: Above, below, & all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate. Sutta Nipata I, 8 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Sun Jul 8 09:06:48 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 01:06:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] Lakkhana Sutta Message-ID: <6350547.994579610899.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> "Monks, a fool is characterized by his/her actions. A wise person is characterized by his/her actions. It is through the activities of one's life that one's discernment shines. "A person endowed with three things is to be recognized as a fool. Which three? Bodily misconduct, verbal misconduct, mental misconduct. A person endowed with these three things is to be recognized as a fool. "A person endowed with three things is to be recognized as a wise person. Which three? Good bodily conduct, good verbal conduct, good mental conduct. A person endowed with these three things is to be recognized as a wise person. "Thus, monks, you should train yourselves: 'We will avoid the three things that, endowed with which, one is to be recognized as a fool. We will undertake & maintain the three things that, endowed with which, one is to be recognized as a wise person.' That's how you should train yourselves." Anguttara Nikaya III.2 Lakkhana Sutta Characterized (by Action) Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Mon Jul 9 07:16:55 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 23:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <4476440.994659416299.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> Becoming a buddha is easy But ending illusions is hard So many frosted moonlit nights I’ve sat and felt The cold before dawn. - Shih-wu (1272-1352) ------------------------------------------------------ Daily Words of the Buddha Happy indeed we live, friendly amidst the hostile. Amidst hostile men we dwell free from hatred. Dhammapada 198 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Tue Jul 10 07:18:54 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 23:18:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] rather lengthy dailydharma Message-ID: <5360397.994745935257.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> "Monks, these three are causes for the origination of actions. Which three? Greed is a cause for the origination of actions. Aversion is a cause for the origination of actions. Delusion is a cause for the origination of actions. "Any action performed with greed -- born of greed, caused by greed, originating from greed: wherever one's selfhood turns up, there that action will ripen. Where that action ripens, there one will experience its fruit, either in this very life that has arisen or further along in the sequence. "Any action performed with aversion -- born of aversion, caused by aversion, originating from aversion: wherever one's selfhood turns up, there that action will ripen. Where that action ripens, there one will experience its fruit, either in this very life that has arisen or further along in the sequence. "Any action performed with delusion -- born of delusion, caused by delusion, originating from delusion: wherever one's selfhood turns up, there that action will ripen. Where that action ripens, there one will experience its fruit, either in this very life that has arisen or further along in the sequence. "Just as when seeds are not broken, not rotten, not damaged by wind & heat, capable of sprouting, well-buried, planted in well-prepared soil, and the rain-god would offer good streams of rain. Those seeds would thus come to growth, increase, & abundance. In the same way, any action performed with greed ... performed with aversion ... performed with delusion -- born of delusion, caused by delusion, originating from delusion: wherever one's selfhood turns up, there that action will ripen. Where that action ripens, there one will experience its fruit, either in this very life that has arisen or further along in the sequence. "These are three causes for the origination of actions. "Now, these three are [further] causes for the origination of actions. Which three? Non-greed is a cause for the origination of actions. Non-aversion is a cause for the origination of actions. Non-delusion is a cause for the origination of actions. "Any action performed with non-greed -- born of non-greed, caused by non-greed, originating from non-greed: When greed is gone, that action is thus abandoned, its root destroyed, like an uprooted palm tree, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising. "Any action performed with non-aversion -- born of non-aversion, caused by non-aversion, originating from non-aversion: When aversion is gone, that action is thus abandoned, destroyed at the root, like an uprooted palm tree, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising. "Any action performed with non-delusion -- born of non-delusion, caused by non-delusion, originating from non-delusion: When delusion is gone, that action is thus abandoned, its root destroyed, like an uprooted palm tree, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising. "Just as when seeds are not broken, not rotten, not damaged by wind & heat, capable of sprouting, well-buried, planted in well-prepared soil, and a man would burn them with fire and, burning them with fire, would make them into fine ashes. Having made them into fine ashes, he would winnow them before a high wind or wash them away in a swift-flowing stream. Those seeds would thus be destroyed at the root, like an uprooted palm tree, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising. "In the same way, any action performed with non-greed ... performed with non-aversion ... performed with non-delusion -- born of non-delusion, caused by non-delusion, originating from non-delusion: When delusion is gone, that action is thus abandoned, its root destroyed, like an uprooted palm tree, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising. "These, monks, are three causes for the origination of action." A person unknowing: the actions performed by him, born of greed, born of aversion, & born of delusion, whether many or few, are experienced right here: no other ground is found. So a monk, knowing, sheds greed, aversion, & delusion; giving rise to clear knowledge, he sheds all bad destinations. ************************************** Nidana Sutta Causes Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Wed Jul 11 07:07:31 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:07:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <6031302.994831651484.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> You ask me why I stay On this blue mountain? I smile but do not answer. My mind is at ease! Peach blossoms And flowing streams Pass away without a trace. How different from The mundane world! - Li P’o (701–762) ----------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial. Dhammapada 163 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Jul 12 07:09:42 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 23:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <16005234.994918182844.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> The rich are admired because they’ve saved money. But what’s been saved can be spent. The admiration goes with the money. A king receives loyalty because his people regard him as noble. If they decide he’s acting badly, he may lose more than his throne. Those who are rich in the Dharma and noble in the Buddha’s Way always retain their wealth and the fealty of the people. .......Han Shan ---------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth. Dhammapada 223 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Jul 13 07:13:19 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] Abhavita Sutta Message-ID: <20616744.995004800308.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> "Monks, I know not of any other single thing so intractable as the untamed mind. The untamed mind is indeed a thing untractable. "Monks, I know not of any other thing so tractable as the tamed mind. The tamed mind is indeed a thing tractable. "Monks, I know not of any other single thing so conducive to great loss as the untamed mind. The untamed mind indeed conduces to great loss. "Monks, I know not of any other single thing so conducive to great profit as the tamed mind. The tamed mind indeed conduces to great profit. "Monks, I know not of any other single thing that brings such woe as the mind that is untamed, uncontrolled, unguarded and unrestrained. Such a mind indeed brings great woe. "Monks, I know not of any other single thing that brings such bliss as the mind that is tamed, controlled, guarded and restrained. Such a mind indeed brings great bliss." ************************ Abhavita Sutta Untamed Translated from the Pali by F.L. Woodward. _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Sat Jul 14 08:54:56 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 00:54:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <8809215.995097296738.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> "Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is defiled by incoming defilements." "Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is freed from incoming defilements." "Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is defiled by incoming defilements. The uninstructed run-of-the-mill person doesn't discern that as it actually is present, which is why I tell you that -- for the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person -- there is no development of the mind." "Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is freed from incoming defilements. The well-instructed disciple of the noble ones discerns that as it actually is present, which is why I tell you that -- for the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones -- there is development of the mind." *********************************** Pabhassara Suttas Luminous Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Sun Jul 15 10:24:57 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 02:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] long dharma from dailyzen Message-ID: <1538073.995189097825.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> Sayings of Master Rujing of Tiantong If saints and self-enlightened sages lack great compassion, they are not the same as the buddhas and patriarchs, who considered great compassion foremost and sat in meditation with the vow to save all sentient beings. If the ancient meditators in India had attachment to their experience, false views, or conceit, their sitting meditation was not that of the buddhas and patriarchs. What I mean to say is that buddhas and patriarchs, from their very first inspiration, sit in meditation with the vow to gather together all the qualities of buddhahood. Therefore in their sitting meditation they do not forget sentient beings, do not forsake sentient beings - they always have loving thought even for insects and vow to rescue them. Whatever virtues they have, they dedicate to all; therefore the buddhas and patriarchs are always in the world of desire practicing meditation and working on the way. In the world of desire only this world provides the best situation. Cultivating all virtues one attains to gentility and ease of mind. Rujing lived from 1163-1228 and served as abbot of several large monasteries. It was at Tiantong in eastern China that Dogen met Rujing, who was to become the greatest spiritual benefactor of Dogen. It was he who taught Dogen the technique of "just sitting." The above excerpt was taken from Dogen's record of private talks with Rujing. What to be aware of in zazen, sitting meditation If you want to sit in meditation, first find a quiet place and spread a thick mat for comfortable sitting. Do not let wind or smoke, rain or dew in. Keep a clear place to sit, with enough room for your knees. Although there were people who sat on diamond seats or boulders in ancient times, they all had sitting cushions. When sitting in zazen your body may seem hot or cold, uneasy or comfortable, sometimes stiff, sometimes loose, sometimes heavy, sometimes light, sometimes startled awake. This is all because the breath is not in tune and needs to be tuned. The way of tuning the breath is as follows: open your mouth, letting the breath be long or short, gradually harmonize it. Follow the breath for a while; a sense of awareness will come and then the breath is in good tune. After that let the breath pass naturally through the nose. You may sit with legs crossed or underneath you. Loosen your clothes and straighten them. Place your right hand on your left foot and your left hand on your right hand, with your thumbs together near the body about the level of tanden - about 2 inches below the navel. Sit up straight, without leaning to the left or the right, front or back. The ears and shoulders, nose and navel should be aligned. The tongue is kept on the roof of the mouth, and the breath should pass through the nose. The mouth should be closed, while the eyes should be open, though not too widely, or too slightly. Having attuned your body in this way, breathe deeply through the mouth a couple of times. Next, sitting steady, sway your body seven or eight times, going from larger to smaller movements. Then sit upright and intent. Cast off mind, intellect, and consciousness. Cease recollection, thought, and observation. Don't aim at becoming a buddha, don't be concerned with right or wrong; value time as though saving your head from burning. The Buddha sat upright, Bodhidharma faced a wall, singleminded, without any other concerns at all. Shishuang was like a dead tree. Rujing admonished against sleeping while sitting. "You can only succeed by just sitting, without need to make use of burning incense, prostration, remembrance of buddha names, repentance ceremonies, reading scriptures or ritual recitations," said Rujing. Always abide in great compassion, and dedicate the boundless power of sitting meditation to all living beings. Don't become proud, conceited, or self righteous - these are qualities of ordinary people. Just sitting, not doing anything at all, is the essential technique for penetrating zen. With body and mind at ease, behavior harmonious, abandon worldly feelings and don't cling to feelings of the way. Keizan Jokin (1264-1325) Taken from Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology, Thomas Cleary (out of print) This summer we return to the basics of practice - meditation. With practice meditation is one doorway students can experience first hand Blue Sky Mind - that unpressured and yet aware, miraculously aware mind. Once this foundation is established in sitting we have a benchmark to return to in daily life and in interactions with others. At some point in training a true turn-about occurs where the unpressured, empty boat experience feels more like home than the compulsive, selfish and reactive mind of before. We will be spending time with this foundation and find the common thread as taught by many teachers of old that sings through the modern teachings of today. This is our summer retreat.... Describing a circle in the air, Dogen said, "This is an immeasurably great matter: all the enlightened ones of the past, present, and future comprehend this, the successive generations of ancestral teachers realized this, people searching out the way investigate this. If you can get it in your daily activities, you will actually go a step beyond the enlightened ancestors." _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Mon Jul 16 07:01:46 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 23:01:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <23599750.995263307048.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> Deep is the Tathagata’s wisdom, Lofty and beyond all illusions. This is the One to which all things return provided you do not separate them, keeping some and casting others away. Where can you put them anyway? All things are within the One. There is no outside. Gatha of Seng T'san, Third Chan Patriarch Hsin-hsin-ming ----------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha One truly is the protector of oneself; who else could the protector be? With oneself fully controlled, one gains a mastery that is hard to gain. Dhammapada 160 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Tue Jul 17 07:05:31 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <18316483.995349932115.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> "Monks, these two slander the Tathagata. Which two? He who explains what was not said or spoken by the Tathagata as said or spoken by the Tathagata. And he who explains what was said or spoken by the Tathagata as not said or spoken by the Tathagata. These are two who slander the Tathagata." ********************************* Abhasita Sutta What Was Not Said Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Wed Jul 18 07:15:29 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <11806390.995436929588.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> Sentient beings are Primarily all Buddhas: It is like ice and water, Apart from water No ice can exist; Outside sentient beings Where do we find the Buddhas? Not knowing how near The Truth is, People seek it far away, What a pity! - Hakuin (1685–1768) ---------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Some recluses and brahmins, so called, Are deeply attached to their own views; People who only see one side of things Engage in quarrels and disputes. Udana VI, 4 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Jul 19 07:00:28 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] Neyyattha Sutta Message-ID: <8223598.995522429191.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> "Monks, these two slander the Tathagata. Which two? He who explains a discourse whose meaning needs to be inferred as one whose meaning has already been fully drawn out. And he who explains a discourse whose meaning has already been fully drawn out as one whose meaning needs to be inferred. These are two who slander the Tathagata." ******************************** Neyyattha Sutta A Meaning to be Inferred Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Jul 20 15:34:06 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <23397865.995639646895.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> There are people who, though having accomplished nothing, connive to receive great honors or high positions of authority. Well, people who gain high rank without having earned it are like rootless trees. They live in fear that even the slightest wind will topple them. Undeserved honor is a preface to disgrace. Maxims of Master Han Shan (from Journey to Dreamland) -------------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die. But those who do realize this settle their quarrels. Dhammapada 6 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Sat Jul 21 09:19:33 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <5772930.995703574370.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> Every day priests minutely Examine the Dharma And endlessly chant Complicated sutras. Before doing that, though, They should learn How to read the love letters Sent by the wind and rain, The snow and moon. - Ikkyu (1394-1491) --------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Make an island unto yourself! Strive hard and become wise! Rid of impurities and cleansed of stain, you shall not come again to birth and decay. Dhammapada 238 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Tue Jul 24 06:35:51 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 22:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <27832517.995952951707.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> The universal body of reality Is so subtle that You do not hear it When you deliberately Listen for it, And you do not see it When you look at it. As for the pure knowledge That has no teacher, How can it be attained by Thought or study? - Huanglong ----------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Know this, O good man: evil things are difficult to control. Let not greed and wickedness drag you to protracted misery. Dhammapada 248 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Tue Jul 24 00:11:59 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <8896994.995929919706.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> --21788454.995929919348.JavaMail.imail.blizzard.excite.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All wise men everywhere understand this. This knowledge is beyond time, long or short, This knowledge is eternal. It neither is nor is not. Everywhere is here and the smallest equals the largest. Space cannot confine anything. The largest equals the smallest. There are no boundaries, no within and without. What is and what is not are the same, For what is not is equal to what is. If you do not awaken to this truth, do not worry yourself about it. Just believe that your Buddha Mind is not divided, That it accepts all without judgment. Give no thoughts to words and speeches or pretty plans The eternal has no present, past or future. Gatha of Seng T'san, Third Chan Patriarch Hsin-hsin-ming --------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Those who are devoted to the Dhamma made known by the Noble Ones are unsurpassed in speech, thought and action. They are established in peace, gentleness and concentration, and have reached the essence of learning and wisdom. Sutta Nipata II, 9 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ --21788454.995929919348.JavaMail.imail.blizzard.excite.com Content-Type: message/rfc822; name=dailydharma Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=dailydharma Message-ID: <13414039.995792791427.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 02:06:31 -0700 (PDT) From: ike Reply-To: To: ChloieA@mailexcite.com, rocknox@excite.com, dailydharma@stderr.org Subject: dailydharma Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 12.93.208.48 All wise men everywhere understand this. This knowledge is beyond time, long or short, This knowledge is eternal. It neither is nor is not. Everywhere is here and the smallest equals the largest. Space cannot confine anything. The largest equals the smallest. There are no boundaries, no within and without. What is and what is not are the same, For what is not is equal to what is. If you do not awaken to this truth, do not worry yourself about it. Just believe that your Buddha Mind is not divided, That it accepts all without judgment. Give no thoughts to words and speeches or pretty plans The eternal has no present, past or future. Gatha of Seng T'san, Third Chan Patriarch Hsin-hsin-ming --------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Those who are devoted to the Dhamma made known by the Noble Ones are unsurpassed in speech, thought and action. They are established in peace, gentleness and concentration, and have reached the essence of learning and wisdom. Sutta Nipata II, 9 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ --21788454.995929919348.JavaMail.imail.blizzard.excite.com-- From ekp@excite.com Wed Jul 25 07:02:14 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:02:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <23229062.996040935144.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> Madness, the way they Gallop off to foreign shores! Turning to the One Mind, I find my Buddhahood, Above self and others, Beyond coming and going. This will remain When all else is gone. - Tanzan (1819–1892) --------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Who is hospitable, and friendly, Liberal and unselfish, A guide, an instructor, a leader, Such a one to honour may attain. Digha Nikaya _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Jul 26 06:54:32 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:54:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <14742405.996126891964.JavaMail.imail@prance.excite.com> Forty-some years I’ve Lived in the mountains, Ignorant of the world’s Rise and fall. Warmed at night by a stove Full of pine needles; Satisfied at noon by a bowl Of wild plants; Sitting on rocks Watching clouds and empty thoughts; Patching my robe in sunlight; Practicing silence Till someone asks Why Bodhidharma came east, And I hang out my wash. - Shih-wu (1252-1352) --------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha The friend who is a helpmate, the friend in happiness and woe, the friend who gives good counsel, the friend who sympathises too -- these four as friends the wise behold and cherish them devotedly as does a mother her own child. Digha Nikaya 31 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Jul 27 13:56:16 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 05:56:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <12621811.996238577064.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> Many times the mountains have Turned from green to yellow So much for the capricious earth! Dust in your eyes, The triple world is narrow; Nothing on your mind, Your chair is wide enough. - Muso (1275–1351) ----------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Whoever through desire, hate or fear, Or ignorance should transgress the Dhamma, All his glory fades away Like the moon during the waning half. Whoever through desire, hate or fear, Or ignorance never transgresses the Dhamma, All his glory ever increases Like the moon during the waxing half. Digha Nikaya 31 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Sat Jul 28 09:01:21 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <3716156.996307282212.JavaMail.imail@hook.excite.com> If men can’t evade the demands of their father and emperor, what can they do when Death gives them an order? They protest bitterly and scream at heaven, but they’ve got to obey. The man who howls the loudest is the one who thinks he’s just reached the pinnacle of worldly success. The enlightened understand life and death. They always live well and never complain .................Han Shan ********************************************************** Daily Words of the Buddha Who gives, his virtues shall increase; Who is self-curbed, no hatred bears; Whoso is skilled in virtue, evil shuns, And by the rooting out of lust and hate And all delusion, comes to be at peace. Digha Nikaya, 16 _______________________________________________________ http://inbox.excite.com From ekp@excite.com Sun Jul 29 09:43:49 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 01:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <5049287.996396230160.JavaMail.imail@hook.excite.com> The dharma master lives Here at Mt. Chiao, And yet, in fact, Has never lived here at all. I’ve come here to Ask about the dharma, But the dharma master Sees through me and Says nothing. It isn’t that the Dharma master lacks the words, But that I do not Understand the nature Of his reply. - Su Shih (1073) ------------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha With firm resolve, guard your own mind! Whoso untiringly pursues the Dhamma and the Discipline Shall go beyond the round of births and make an end of suffering. Digha Nikaya, 16 _______________________________________________________ http://inbox.excite.com From ekp@excite.com Mon Jul 30 07:00:23 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 23:00:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <3230093.996472823238.JavaMail.imail@hook.excite.com> Of late I deeply devote Myself to quiescence. Nothing in the world Concerns my mind. The breeze from the Pine woods blows my sash; The mountain moon Shines upon my harp. You ask me to explain The reason of failure or success. The fisherman’s song Goes deep into the river. - Wang Wei (699-759) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Who is energetic and not indolent, In misfortune unshaken, Flawless in manner and intelligent, Such a one to honour may attain. Digha Nikaya 31 _______________________________________________________ http://inbox.excite.com From ekp@excite.com Tue Jul 31 06:56:18 2001 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <3450212.996558979551.JavaMail.imail@scorch.excite.com> I explain to you matters Pertaining to enlightenment, But don’t try to keep Your mind on them. Just turn to the ocean Of your own essence And develop practical Accord with its nature. - Yangshan ---------------------------------------------------------- Daily Words of the Buddha Just as rust arising from iron eats away the base from which it arises, even so, their own deeds lead transgressors to states of woe. Dhammapada 240 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/