Dedicated to Dilgo kyentse Rinpoche, spiritaul king of the monks.
Reorded the quotes accompnying photographs of the Himalayas:
May Bodhicitta, precious and sublime,
Arise where it has not yet come to be;
And where it has arisen may it never fail,
But grow and flourish always more and more.
Buddhist Prayer
The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning can I give my life.
14th Dalai Lama
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
Gandhi
When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colours of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety are utterly without substance.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
All the joy the world contains
Has come throuigh wishing happiness for others.
All the misery the world contains
Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.
Shantideva
Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
P.D. Stanhope
When selfish happiness is the only goal in life, life becomes goalless.
Romain Rolland
Our life is frittered away by detail...Simply, simplify!
H.D.Thoreau
And if their fault are fleeting and contingent,
If living beings are by nature wholesome,
It's likewise senseless to resent them _
As well be angry at the sky for having clouds!
Shantideva
One man dreams he lives a hundred years
Of happiness, but then he wakes.
Another dreams an instant's joy,
But then he, likewise, wakes.
Shantideva
Hatred is the winter of the heart.
Victor Hugo
Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.
Albert Schweitzer
Should I stray in good health, I will use my strength
To dedicate myself to spiritual practice.
Should I fall ill, I will use my troubles
To increase the compassion I feel for those who are suffering.
Should I live long, I will use each moment
To accomplish my own and other's benefit.
Should my life come to its end, I will make the best use of the moment of death
To obtain the right rebirth for pursuing enlightenment.
Tibetan prayer
For sentient beings, poor and destitute,
May I become a treasure ever-plentiful,
And lie before them closely in their reach,
A varied source of all that they might need.
Shantideva
Spending all your life trying to achieve ordinary worldly goals would be like trying to net fish in a dry river-bed. Clearly understanding this, make a firm decision not to allow your life to pursue such a useless course.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Today I climbed behind
This excellent retreat place.
I raised my head, looking up,
And saw the cloudless sky.
I thought of absolute space, free from limits.
I then experienced a freedom
Without center, without end,
All biased views
Completely abandoned.
I lowered my head to look in front of me,
And saw the sun of this world.
I thought of meditation
Luminous and unobstructed.
I then experienced a non-dual, empty clarity.
all meditations tat focus the mind
Completely abandoned.
Shabkar
Destroy a single being's joy
And you will work the ruin of yourself.
But if the happiness of all is brought to nothing...
What need is there to speak of this?
Shantideva
Just as clouds form, last for a while and then dissolve back into the empty sky, so deluded thoughts arise, remain for a while and then vanish in the voidness of mind; in reality nothing at all has happened.
D K Rinpoche
as long as space endures,
And as long as sentient beings exist,
May I, too, remain
To dispel the misery of the world.
Shantideva
To expect happiness without giving up negative action is like holding your hand in a fire and hopimng not to be burned.
D k Rinpoche
Those who are tormented by the summer heat
Long for the moonlight of autumn.
And if not overcome by fear, it is because the thought has not crossed their inds
that another hundred days of their life will have passed.
Jetsun Milarepa
\What a relief it is for the burdened man who has long walked through the world of suffering to lay down his heavy and useless load.
Logchen Rabjam
If you allow your thoughts and feelings to arise and dissolve by themselves,
they will pass through your mind in the same way as a bird flies through the sky, without leaving any trace.
D K Rinpoche
Look within. Within is the fountain of good.
Marcus Aurelius
Anger, lust - these enemies of mine-
Are limbless and devoid of faculties.
They have no bravery, no cleverness.
How then have they made me their slave?
Shantideva
If there is a remedy when trouble strikes,
What reason is there for despondency?
And if there 9is no help for it,
What use is there in being sad?
Shantideva
We read the world wrong and say it deceives us.
Rabindranath Tagore
I turned my head looking south,
And saw a pattern of rainbows.
I thought of all phenomena
At once apparent and empty.
I then experienced a non-dual, natural clarity.
All nihilist and eternalist viewpoints
Completely abandoned.
Shabkar
Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for sunshine in a cave facing north.
Tibetan saying
If you recognize the void nature of thoughts at the very moment they arise, they will disslve.
Attachment and hatred will never be able to disturb the mind.
Deluded emotions will collapse by themselves.
No negative actions will be accumulated, so no suffering will follow.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
What is not given is lost.
Father Ceyrac
No task is so big that it cannot be broken down into smaller, easier tasks.
Buddhist saying
If you're afraid of your thoughts, you're giving them power over you, because they seem so solid and real, so true.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
Matthieu Ricard
The happiest man is he who has no trace of malice in his soul.
Plato
The hand and other limbs are many and distinct,
But all are one - one body to be kept and guarded.
Likewise, different beings in their joys and sorrows,
Are, like me, all one in wanting happiness.
Shantideva
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