Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Via Daily Dharma:
Stinking Bones | September 3, 2014
To stop the mind and contemplate
stillness is a sickness, not Chan meditation. Constant sitting restricts
the body—how could it help towards discovering truth? Listen to my
verse:
You can sit without lying down from the moment you're born,
But when you die, you'll lie down, never again to sit.
How could you build a solid practice
On a set of stinking bones?!
But when you die, you'll lie down, never again to sit.
How could you build a solid practice
On a set of stinking bones?!
- Master Huineng, "Direct and Gradual"
Flower of the Day: 09/03/14
“Every
time you create one thing to run away from another, sooner or later
what you created will have to undergo some form of transformation. If
you generated wealth to flee from poverty, you might need to lose this
wealth to free yourself from the fear of being poor, so that you may
become truly rich. True wealth comes from trust and plenitude – not from
fear. When this transformation knocks on your door, you will start
being tested greatly, until you succeed in developing the virtue of
trust and move towards surrender.”
Sri Prem Baba
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