Meditation is like... (put your similie here)
- DarwidHalim
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Meditation is like a holy attachment.
I am not here nor there.
I am not right nor wrong.
I do not exist neither non-exist.
I am not I nor non-I.
I am not in samsara nor nirvana.
To All Buddhas, I bow down for the teaching of emptiness. Thank You!
I am not right nor wrong.
I do not exist neither non-exist.
I am not I nor non-I.
I am not in samsara nor nirvana.
To All Buddhas, I bow down for the teaching of emptiness. Thank You!
- Bhikkhu Pesala
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My meditation smilies: or or sometimes more like
Or perhaps you meant to say "Simile."
A meditation session is like taking a break.
Or perhaps you meant to say "Simile."
A meditation session is like taking a break.
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Meditation is like this.
(In an attempt to follow the style of Ajahn Sumedho)
Best wishes
Cal
(In an attempt to follow the style of Ajahn Sumedho)
Best wishes
Cal
Right Speech: It is spoken at the right time. It is spoken in truth. It is spoken affectionately. It is spoken beneficially. It is spoken with a mind of good-will. [AN 5.198]
Personally, I seem to gain the most insight when I am under the most pressure, when life is at its most unpleasant. There is something in me on those occasions which feels that there is nothing left but to be aware of 'this'. Ajahn Sumedho - Don't Take Your Life Personally, p288
Personally, I seem to gain the most insight when I am under the most pressure, when life is at its most unpleasant. There is something in me on those occasions which feels that there is nothing left but to be aware of 'this'. Ajahn Sumedho - Don't Take Your Life Personally, p288
Re: Meditation is like... (put your similie here)
For me presently:
Meditation is becoming patient at impatience
Or add any other word and it's antonym to follow
Meditation is becoming patient at impatience
Or add any other word and it's antonym to follow
Here where a thousand
captains swore grand conquest
Tall grasses their monument.
captains swore grand conquest
Tall grasses their monument.
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Meditation is like watching trash on an assembly line (i.e. the time) that's moving by.
The task is to just watch and to not crave for more trash of some kind, and to not have aversion for another kind of trash -- trash is trash.
To not think of the trash as "mine", controllable or substantial, to not think of it as permanent, to not think of it as satisfactory - how can trash be satisfactory?
The less we crave, the easier it becomes to watch the trash and to see the trash-nature: Empty, impermanent, unsatisfactory.
The task is to just watch and to not crave for more trash of some kind, and to not have aversion for another kind of trash -- trash is trash.
To not think of the trash as "mine", controllable or substantial, to not think of it as permanent, to not think of it as satisfactory - how can trash be satisfactory?
The less we crave, the easier it becomes to watch the trash and to see the trash-nature: Empty, impermanent, unsatisfactory.
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Meditaion is like hanging ten on the edge of reality.
Happy, at rest,
may all beings be happy at heart.
Whatever beings there may be,
weak or strong, without exception,
long, large,
middling, short,
subtle, blatant,
seen & unseen,
near & far, born & seeking birth: May all beings be happy at heart.
Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
— Sn 1.8
may all beings be happy at heart.
Whatever beings there may be,
weak or strong, without exception,
long, large,
middling, short,
subtle, blatant,
seen & unseen,
near & far, born & seeking birth: May all beings be happy at heart.
Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
— Sn 1.8
Re: Meditation is like... (put your similie here)
Its like sitting down on a buckwheat cushion.
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.” ― Robert M. Pirsig
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Not original, but, speaking for oneself, applicable to most sittings these days... "like open-heart surgery without an anaesthetic..."
Atāṇo loko anabhissaro...
Yena yena hi maññanti tato taṃ hoti aññathā,
Yena yena hi maññanti tato taṃ hoti aññathā,
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Meditation is like letting a river flow without damming it.
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Sabbe dhamma anatta
We are not concurents...
I'am sorry for my english
We are not concurents...
I'am sorry for my english
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Sometimes
But often
But often
Buddha save me from new-agers!
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Meditation is like riding a bicycle because it always hurts when you crash.
Sotthī hontu nirantaraṃ - May you forever be well.
- James the Giant
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This is what my meditation has been like this past month;
Then,
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
saturated with joy,
you will put an end to suffering and stress.
SN 9.11
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Dude, thats hilarious
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.” ― Robert M. Pirsig
- imagemarie
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