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“In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.”

— The Buddha, Suppa Nipata

Bodhi Nirvana, Dharmakaya, and Hyrana

This is truth that cannot be doubted.
Say it so:

Gone,
gone,
gone over,
gone fully over.
Awakened!
So be it!

-from, The Heart Sutra

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Zhuangzi

Zhen wrote:This is truth that cannot be doubted.
Say it so:

Gone,
gone,
gone over,
gone fully over.
Awakened!
So be it!

-from, The Heart Sutra

Tayata!

Gate Gate Paragate
Parasamgate Bodhi Soha

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Heal those stricken with virus.
Om Mani Padme Hum...
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May the many sentient beings
who are sick,
quickly be freed from sickness.
And may all the sicknesses of beings
Never arise again.

~ The Medicine Buddha Mantra

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Bodhi Nirvana and Zhen

"On an ultimate level
The only refuge is the buddha.
The Muni embodies the dharma,
And is thus the culmination of the sangha."

- Maitreya

Tayata

Namo Buddha
Namo Dharma
Namo Sangha

OM MUNI MUNI MAHA MUNIYE SOHA

Deva Premal and The Gyuto Monks of Tibet

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A monk decides to meditate alone.

Away from his monastery, he takes a boat and goes to the middle of the lake, closes his eyes and begins to meditate.

After a few hours of unperturbed silence, he suddenly feels the blow of another boat hitting his. With his eyes still closed, he feels his anger rising and, when he opens his eyes, he is ready to shout at the boatman who dared to disturb his meditation.

But when he opened his eyes, saw that it was an empty boat, not tied up, floating in the middle of the lake.

At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization and understands that anger is within him;
it simply needs to hit an external object to provoke it.

After that, whenever he meets someone who irritates or provokes his anger, he remembers; the other person is just an empty boat. Anger is inside me.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

Chenrezig wrote:A monk decides to meditate alone.

Away from his monastery, he takes a boat and goes to the middle of the lake, closes his eyes and begins to meditate.

After a few hours of unperturbed silence, he suddenly feels the blow of another boat hitting his. With his eyes still closed, he feels his anger rising and, when he opens his eyes, he is ready to shout at the boatman who dared to disturb his meditation.

But when he opened his eyes, saw that it was an empty boat, not tied up, floating in the middle of the lake.

At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization and understands that anger is within him;
it simply needs to hit an external object to provoke it.

After that, whenever he meets someone who irritates or provokes his anger, he remembers; the other person is just an empty boat. Anger is inside me.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

There is nobody in the other boat.

The bell rings. Hear its sound like waves across the air. When does the sound end?

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Bodhi Nirvana, Chenrezig, and Dharmakaya

Zhen wrote:The bell rings. Hear its sound like waves across the air. When does the sound end?

When one has reached the soundless sound.

The Story of One Hand Clapping

The master of Kennin temple was Mokurai, Silent Thunder. He had a little protégé named Toyo who was only twelve years old. Toyo saw the older disciples visit the master’s room each morning and evening to receive instruction in sanzen or personal guidence in which they were given koans to stop mind-wandering.

Toyo wished to do sanzen also.

“Wait a while,” said Mokurai. “You are too young.”

But the child insisted, so the teacher finally consented.

In the evening little Toyo went at the proper time to the threshold of Mokurai’s sanzen room. He struck the gong to announce his presence, bowed respectfully three times outside the door, and went to sit before the master in respectful silence.

“You can hear the sound of two hands when they clap together,” said Mokurai. “Now show me the sound of one hand.”

Toyo bowed and went to his room to consider this problem. From his window he could hear the music of the geishas. “Ah, I have it!” he proclaimed.

The next evening, when his teacher asked him to illustrate the sound of one hand, Toyo began to play the music of the geishas.

“No, no,” said Mokurai. “That will never do. That is not the sound of one hand. You’ve not got it at all.”

Thinking that such music might interrupt, Toyo moved his abode to a quiet place. He meditated again. “What can the sound of one hand be?” He happened to hear some water dripping. “I have it,” imagined Toyo.

When he next appeared before his teacher, he imitated dripping water.

“What is that?” asked Mokurai. “That is the sound of dripping water, but not the sound of one hand. Try again.”

In vain Toyo meditated to hear the sound of one hand. He heard the sighing of the wind. But the sound was rejected.

He heard the cry of an owl. This was also refused.

The sound of one hand was not the locusts.

For more than ten times Toyo visited Mokurai with different sounds. All were wrong. For almost a year he pondered what the sound of one hand might be.

At last Toyo entered true meditation and transcended all sounds. “I could collect no more,” he explained later, “so I reached the soundless sound.”

Toyo had realized the sound of one hand.

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'Someone asked, "What is the Buddha devil?"

The Master said, "If you have doubts in your mind for an instant, that's the Buddha devil. But if you can understand that the ten thousand phenomena were never born, that the mind is like a conjurer's trick, then not one speck of dust, not one phenomenon will exist. Everywhere will be clean and pure, and this will be Buddha. Buddha and devil just refer to two states, one stained, one pure.

"As I see it, there's no Buddha, no living beings, no long ago, no now. If you want to get it, you've already got it—it's not something that requires time. There's no religious practice, no enlightenment, no getting anything, no missing out on anything. At no time is there any other Dharma than this. If anyone claims there is a Dharma superior to this, I say it must be a dream, a phantom. All I have to say to you is simply this.

"Followers of the Way, this lone brightness before my eyes now, this person plainly listening to me!—this person is unimpeded at any point but penetrates the ten directions, free to do as he pleases in the threefold world. No matter what environment he may encounter, with its peculiarities and differences, he cannot be swayed or pulled awry. In the space of an instant he makes his way into the Dharma-realm. If he meets a buddha he preaches to the buddha, if he meets a patriarch he preaches to the patriarch, if he meets an arhat he preaches to the arhat, if he meets a hungry ghost he preaches to the hungry ghost. He goes everywhere, wandering through many lands, teaching and converting living beings, yet never becomes separated from his single thought. Every place for him is clean and pure, his light pierces the ten directions, the ten thousand phenomena are a single thusness.

"Followers of the Way, the really first-rate fellow knows right now that from the first there's never been anything that needed doing. It's because you don't have enough faith that you rush around moment by moment looking for something. You throw away your head and then hunt for a head, and you can't seem to stop yourselves. You're like the bodhisattva of perfect and immediate enlightenment who manifests his body in the Dharma-realm but who, in the midst of the Pure Land, still hates the state of common mortal and prays to become a sage. People like that have yet to forget about making choices. Their minds are still occupied with thoughts of purity or impurity.

"But the Ch'an school doesn't see things that way. What counts is this present moment—there's nothing that requires a lot of time. Everything I am saying to you is for the moment only, medicine to cure the disease. Ultimately it has no true reality. If you can see things in this way, you will be true men who have left the household, free to spend ten thousand in gold each day.

"Followers of the Way, don't let just any old teacher put his stamp of approval on your face, don't say 'I understand Ch'an! I understand the Way!' spouting off like a waterfall. All that sort of thing is karma leading to hell. If you're a person who honestly wants to learn the Way, don't go looking for the world's mistakes, but set about as fast as you can looking for a true and proper understanding. If you can acquire a true and proper understanding, one that's clear and complete, then you can start thinking of calling it quits."'

- Linji

Rest in peace Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

Buddhism, Bodhi Nirvana, Chenrezig, Dharmakaya, and 1 otherGyeongseong

Gyeongseong

Zhen wrote:Rest in peace Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

“This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died…Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out…We shall always be meeting again at the true source. Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Nam-mô A-di-đà Phật
南無阿彌陀佛

Buddhism, Bodhi Nirvana, Chenrezig, and Dharmakaya

Zhen wrote:Rest in peace Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

Gyeongseong wrote:“This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died…Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out…We shall always be meeting again at the true source. Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Nam-mô A-di-đà Phật
南無阿彌陀佛

Let us not mourn brother Thich Nhat Hanh's passing, let us celebrate his life and deeds.

No Death, No Fear.

“The day my mother died I wrote in my journal, "A serious misfortune of my life has arrived." I suffered for more than one year after the passing away of my mother. But one night, in the highlands of Vietnam, I was sleeping in the hut in my hermitage. I dreamed of my mother. I saw myself sitting with her, and we were having a wonderful talk. She looked young and beautiful, her hair flowing down. It was so pleasant to sit there and talk to her as if she had never died. When I woke up it was about two in the morning, and I felt very strongly that I had never lost my mother. The impression that my mother was still with me was very clear. I understood then that the idea of having lost my mother was just an idea. It was obvious in that moment that my mother is always alive in me.

I opened the door and went outside. The entire hillside was bathed in moonlight. It was a hill covered with tea plants, and my hut was set behind the temple halfway up. Walking slowly in the moonlight through the rows of tea plants, I noticed my mother was still with me. She was the moonlight caressing me as she had done so often, very tender, very sweet... wonderful! Each time my feet touched the earth I knew my mother was there with me. I knew this body was not mine but a living continuation of my mother and my father and my grandparents and great-grandparents. Of all my ancestors. Those feet that I saw as "my" feet were actually "our" feet. Together my mother and I were leaving footprints in the damp soil.

From that moment on, the idea that I had lost my mother no longer existed. All I had to do was look at the palm of my hand, feel the breeze on my face or the earth under my feet to remember that my mother is always with me, available at any time.”

― Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Death, No Fear

We have not lost brother Thich Nhat Hnah. He will be with us, always.

No Death, No Fear.

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Buddhism, Bodhi Nirvana, Dharmakaya, and Gyeongseong

Behold now, Bhikkhus, I exhort you: All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

~ Mahaparinibbana Sutta 6:8

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Buddhism, Chenrezig, and Dharmakaya

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Iron Buddha, Buddhism, Bodhi Nirvana, Chenrezig, and 2 othersDharmakaya, and Buddhaxaia

Trying to find a Buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
Space has a name but no form.
It's not something you can pick up or put down.
And you certainly can't grab it.
Beyond this mind you'll never see a Buddha.
The Buddha is a product of your mind.
Why look for a Buddha beyond this mind?

– Bodhidharma, from the book The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

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