Life in this world is like people living in a house that is on fire.
That fire is our passions and desires for worldly things, even if it is peace of mind. If for one minute we follow even one passion, then we are lost as our heart is aflame in desire.
If we cling to this world as reality and ignore cultivating the spiritual aspect of our lives, then truly are we worldly. In becoming fans of the world, we forget that the world is only a reflection of the society it reflects.
Thus life is like a house on fire.
People take this world as reality pursuing worldly projects and pleasures without realizing that the house is on fire and will soon burn down (due to the inevitability of death).
Bodhisattva - the Bodhisattva ideal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva#Bodhisattva_ideal
Showing posts with label six worldly dusts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label six worldly dusts. Show all posts
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Right Concentration: Transcending the Six Worldly Dusts
"In your seeing," he said, "there should be only the seeing. In your hearing, nothing but the hearing; in your smelling, tasting, and touching, nothing but smelling, tasting, and touching; in your thinking, nothing but the thought."
-Khuddaka Nikaya
According to Buddhism, the six worldly dusts are form, sound, taste, touch and dharmas (external opinions).
As a metaphor for all the mundane things that can becloud our True Nature, they correspond to the five senses and the discriminating, everyday mind (the six sense).
Thus the above quotes is part of the sutra Khuddhaka, which instructs the seeker on how to use the six senses so as to transcend the worldly dusts of form, sound, taste, touch, and dharmas.
Simply put, do not analyze sense data.
-Khuddaka Nikaya
According to Buddhism, the six worldly dusts are form, sound, taste, touch and dharmas (external opinions).
As a metaphor for all the mundane things that can becloud our True Nature, they correspond to the five senses and the discriminating, everyday mind (the six sense).
Thus the above quotes is part of the sutra Khuddhaka, which instructs the seeker on how to use the six senses so as to transcend the worldly dusts of form, sound, taste, touch, and dharmas.
Simply put, do not analyze sense data.
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Only a Moment
Just as material things are made of dust, so too are our perceptions and thoughts mere dust. Just as it takes only a moment to wipe the dust from the surface of a mirror, so it takes only a moment to become enlightened, the moment all defiled intentions are cleared from our consciousness, we will see ourselves in the mirror of perfect truth.
— Master Hsing Yun, "Describing the Indescribable"20050630
Conquering passion (poem)
Think of passion (kama)
as the source of the dust
on the mirror or the fog
on the window of the soul.
By just sitting,
wake the rational mind
from its slumber
and control the heart.
By just sitting,
blow away the dust
on the mirror,
and wipe away the fog
on the window.
When passion is quenched,
all that is left is bliss.
as the source of the dust
on the mirror or the fog
on the window of the soul.
By just sitting,
wake the rational mind
from its slumber
and control the heart.
By just sitting,
blow away the dust
on the mirror,
and wipe away the fog
on the window.
When passion is quenched,
all that is left is bliss.
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