[StraightUp_OG]

'The highest principle cannot be explained;
It is neither free nor bound.
Lively and attuned to everything,
It is always right before you.'

- Niu T’ou

[benos]

StraightUp_OG, on Jan 19 2009, 08:20 PM, said:

'The highest principle cannot be explained;
It is neither free nor bound.
Lively and attuned to everything,
It is always right before you.'

- Niu T’ou

Nice - thank you.

Would you mind if I sent it?
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[StraightUp_OG]

benos, on Jan 20 2009, 09:38 PM, said:

StraightUp_OG, on Jan 19 2009, 08:20 PM, said:

'The highest principle cannot be explained;
It is neither free nor bound.
Lively and attuned to everything,
It is always right before you.'

- Niu T’ou

Nice - thank you.

Would you mind if I sent it?
be

Please!

I thought I would start a thread where I post some teachings that have meant something to me and it would be fantastic if you want to share them.

OG

[RickRak2000]

If a boy who cannot speak (but is able to sign) signs an obscenity, will the boy's mother wash his hands out with soap?

[JThompson]

"And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time"

Eliot

EDIT: Here's one for for the forums members, myself for sure....

"It is better to practice a little than talk a lot."

Kokushi

And one of my favs...

"All of the significant battles are waged within the self."

Kopp

This post has been edited by JThompson: 21 January 2009 - 11:35 PM

[StraightUp_OG]

RickRak2000, on Jan 21 2009, 10:36 PM, said:

If a boy who cannot speak (but is able to sign) signs an obscenity, will the boy's mother wash his hands out with soap?

The hand speaks as the cloud hangs above the mountain so to the Buddha was born of a mother.


OG

[StraightUp_OG]

JThompson, on Jan 21 2009, 10:48 PM, said:

"And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time"

Eliot

EDIT: Here one for for the forums members, myself for sure....

"It is better to practice a little than talk a lot."

Kokushi

And one of my favs...

"All of the significant battles are waged within the self."

Kopp

Wonderful and quite apropos.

[benos]

StraightUp_OG, on Jan 21 2009, 01:11 PM, said:

benos, on Jan 20 2009, 09:38 PM, said:

StraightUp_OG, on Jan 19 2009, 08:20 PM, said:

'The highest principle cannot be explained;
It is neither free nor bound.
Lively and attuned to everything,
It is always right before you.'

- Niu T’ou

Nice - thank you.

Would you mind if I sent it?
be

Please!

I thought I would start a thread where I post some teachings that have meant something to me and it would be fantastic if you want to share them.

OG

Cool - thank you.
be

[benos]

And I forgot to mention - nice title for the thread.
be

[StraightUp_OG]

benos, on Jan 26 2009, 07:09 PM, said:

And I forgot to mention - nice title for the thread.
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[StraightUp_OG]

One for today:


"Mind is the root of the myriad phenomena.
All phenomena are born from mind.
If you can completely comprehend mind,
the myriad practices are complete.

It is like a great tree: all the branches
and flowers and fruits grow based on the root.
The tree grows only if the root survives.
If the root is cut, the tree is sure to die.
If you cultivate the Path by comprehending mind,
you save effort and success is easy. If you
cultivate the Path without comprehending mind,
then you waste effort and there is no benefit.
Thus we know that all good and evil come from
one’s own mind. If you seek outside of mind,
it is impossible."

- Bodhidharma

[benos]

I have a whole string of favorites from Bodhidharma. And my all time fav could be...

"If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both."

And another...

"Not to be subject to affliction is what's meant by liberation. There's no other liberation."

That one really clears up all the confusion caused by the "idea" created by the word "enlightenment."

Most of my favorites are on the 2006 and 2007 Maku mozo! pages:

http://www.brianenos...ion_all_06.html
http://www.brianenos...ion_all_07.html

be

[StraightUp_OG]

benos, on Jan 27 2009, 07:33 PM, said:

I have a whole string of favorites from Bodhidharma. And my all time fav could be...

"If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both."

And another...

"Not to be subject to affliction is what's meant by liberation. There's no other liberation."

That one really clears up all the confusion caused by the "idea" created by the word "enlightenment."

Most of my favorites are on the 2006 and 2007 Maku mozo! pages:

http://www.brianenos...ion_all_06.html
http://www.brianenos...ion_all_07.html

be

Sweet

"If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both."

Bodhidharma Rules!


Off to read ... *Clicks Links*

[StraightUp_OG]

The gun knows what to do without question. It does not get in it's own way. The same goes for the bullets they are free and do not think. My mind must remember to forget and let what is be. With nothing in the way nothing is free to happen.

OG

[StraightUp_OG]

Perceive the way and you attain
A point of safety and anchorage.
Enter the way and you attain
The realm of danger and lose your life.
Safety and danger, life and death;
All come from where?
The activity of the great ones is,
When hanging over a cliff
One thousand feet high,
To be able to let go.
Yaahh!

- Sosan Taesa (1520-1604)

[C.A. Wason]

Everything is nothing, and nothing is everything..........

This post has been edited by C.A. Wason: 11 June 2009 - 11:45 AM

[StraightUp_OG]

took a newbie shooting tonight
my mind lacked focus shots limited stage
no focus then no shoot

;-)

[StraightUp_OG]

If I see the moment it is already too late.

[benos]

StraightUp_OG, on Oct 5 2009, 09:12 PM, said:

If I see the moment it is already too late.

Right. Whatever you notice has already happened.
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[StraightUp_OG]

I failed my mind today
emotional noise disturbing movement and action
miss miss FTF miss miss


;-D

This post has been edited by StraightUp_OG: 03 January 2010 - 07:37 PM

[Skizeks]

benos, on Oct 7 2009, 09:15 PM, said:

StraightUp_OG, on Oct 5 2009, 09:12 PM, said:

If I see the moment it is already too late.

Right. Whatever you notice has already happened.
be

There is no present to think about, only what was and what might be!

[Graham Smith]

benos, on Oct 7 2009, 03:15 PM, said:

StraightUp_OG, on Oct 5 2009, 09:12 PM, said:

If I see the moment it is already too late.

Right. Whatever you notice has already happened.
be

I got interested in comparative religion in college, not because I was particularly interested in religion but because I was interested in the idea that, despite extreme differences the worlds major philosophies and religions had much in common. I later heard this reflected in the field of anthropology when a noted expert on Egypt explained the similarities between pyramids in Egypt and South America by saying that, "similar problems tend to produce similar solutions".

The mention of "If I see the moment it is already too late" reminded me of another quote from a completely different source: "Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream." Kahlil Gibran

It seems that the old saw, "great minds think alike" is more true than we often give credit.

[benos]

Graham Smith, on Jan 8 2010, 10:34 AM, said:

benos, on Oct 7 2009, 03:15 PM, said:

StraightUp_OG, on Oct 5 2009, 09:12 PM, said:

If I see the moment it is already too late.

Right. Whatever you notice has already happened.
be

I got interested in comparative religion in college, not because I was particularly interested in religion but because I was interested in the idea that, despite extreme differences the worlds major philosophies and religions had much in common. I later heard this reflected in the field of anthropology when a noted expert on Egypt explained the similarities between pyramids in Egypt and South America by saying that, "similar problems tend to produce similar solutions".

The mention of "If I see the moment it is already too late" reminded me of another quote from a completely different source: "Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream." Kahlil Gibran

It seems that the old saw, "great minds think alike" is more true than we often give credit.

Yes. All the Maku mozo!'s I send out all say the same thing.
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