labrancaro:

SNOWFLAKE (The Buddhist Cat) - Terry Gruber

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lesleyintheskywithdiamonds:

“…there was something inexpressibly broken in my heart as though I’d lived before and walked this trail, under similar circumstances with a fellow Bodhisattva, but maybe on a more important journey, I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.

…’to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.’”

—Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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sombhatt:

It is better to conquer yourself
Than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
Not by angels or by demons,
Heaven or hell.
— Buddha

(Source: breakfastwithbuddha, via goodmemory)

m-o-o-n-w-h-i-s-p-e-r:

“Lord of the world,” Buddhists of the Bamiyan Valley called this 175-foot statue of the Perfect One. — National Geographic, 1968. (Destroyed by the Taliban in 2001).

(Source: johnny-remember-me, via atossecretos)

A translation of the words of the Buddha refers to man as a fathom high; “In truth I say to you that within this fathom-high body … lies the world and the rising of the world and the ceasing of the world.”

[from Annie Dillard]

(Source: catmirror)

DharmaAbides~ Thus have I heard, Buddha said: “Anyone who has no shame at intentional lying, there is no evil that that person cannot do.”

thezengarden:

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New Delhi, India: Artists from the Nalanda Dance Research Centre perform the dance drama The Enlightened One – the Gautama Buddha

Photograph: Harish Tyagi/EP (via 24 hours in pictures | News | guardian.co.uk)

"This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds.
To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance.
A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky,
Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain."

Buddha ( via Izzzze )

(Source: quote-book)

"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true."

Buddha  (via weedbrain)

(Source: lazyyogi, via blueeyedecstasy)

The solution is not to suppress our thoughts and desires, for this would be impossible, it would be like trying to keep a pot of water from boiling by pressing down tightly on the lid. The only sensible approach is to train ourselves to observe our thoughts without following them. This deprives them of their compulsive energy and is therefore like removing the pot of boiling water from the fire.

Lama Thubten Yeshe.

Photo by Matt Linden.

ombuddha:

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thelittlesea:

Angkor Thom, Cambodia.