Sunday, July 5, 2026
Via Daily Dharma: Understanding Cause and Effect
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Via FB \\ Buddhism, Zen, Tao & Meditation
Dhammapada | Chapter 10
Verse 129
All beings fear punishment. All beings fear death.
Seeing others as you see yourself, do not kill and do not cause others to kill.
Verse 130
All beings fear punishment. Life is dear to all beings.
Seeing others as you see yourself, do not harm and do not cause others to harm.
Verse 131
One who seeks happiness for oneself by causing suffering to other beings, who also seek happiness, will not find happiness after death.
Verse 132
One who seeks happiness for oneself without causing suffering to other beings, who also seek happiness, will find happiness after death.
Verse 133
Do not speak harshly to anyone. Those who are spoken to harshly may answer in the same way.
Angry words bring pain, and retaliation may come back to you.
Verse 134
If you remain silent (calm and peaceful) like a broken bell that no longer rings, then you have reached peace and no conflict remains within you.
Verse 135
As a cowherd drives cattle to pasture with a stick, so old age and death drive forward the lives of all beings.
Verse 136
When a fool does evil, he does not understand its consequences.
Later, his own actions burn him like fire burns the one who touches it.
Verse 137
Whoever harms innocent, harmless, and peaceful people will quickly meet one of these ten results:
Verse 138
Severe pain, loss, injury to the body, or serious illness;
Verse 139
Mental suffering, trouble from rulers, or serious accusations;
Verse 140
Loss of relatives, destruction of wealth, or fire destroying one's home. And when the body dies, such a person may be reborn in a state of suffering.
Verse 141
Neither going naked, nor matted hair, nor dirt on the body, nor fasting, nor sleeping on the ground, nor dust on the body, nor sitting motionless can purify a person who has not overcome doubt.
Verse 142
Even if someone wears fine clothes, if they are peaceful, disciplined, self-controlled, truthful, pure in conduct, and do not harm living beings, that person is truly noble and spiritual.
Verse 143
Rare in this world is the person who is restrained by conscience and humility, and who avoids blame as a well-trained horse avoids the whip.
Verse 144
Like a well-trained horse touched by the whip, be energetic and alert. Through faith, virtue, effort, concentration, and wisdom, you can overcome suffering.
Verse 145
Irrigators guide water where they want it to flow.
Arrow makers shape arrows.
Carpenters shape wood.
The wise shape themselves.
Dhammapada | Chapter 10
Danda Vagga
Punishment
17 Verses, 129-145
Saturday, July 4, 2026
Via Daily Dharma: American and Buddhist
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Via White Crane Institute \\ WALT WHITMAN published the first edition of Leaves of Grass
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Noteworthy  1855 - On this day in 1855, WALT WHITMAN published the first edition of Leaves of Grass. The first edition consisted of twelve poems, and was published anonymously; Whitman set much of the type himself, and paid for its printing. Over his lifetime, he published eight more editions, adding poems each time; there were 122 new poems in the third edition alone (1860-61), and the final "death-bed edition," published in 1891, contained almost 400. The first edition received several glowing — and anonymous — reviews in New York newspapers. Most of them were written by Whitman himself. The praise was unstinting: "An American bard at last!" One legitimate mention by popular columnist Fanny Fern called the collection daring and fresh. Emerson felt it was "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." This wasn't a universal opinion, however; many called it filth, and poet John Greenleaf Whittier threw his copy into the fire. Today's Gay Wisdom  2018 - Preface to Leaves of Grass This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. | ||
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