Good is restrainting the eye;
good is restrainting the ear;
good is restraining the nose;
good is restraining the tongue.
good is restraining the body;
good is restraining
speech;
good is restrain thought.
Restraint everywhere is good.
Restrained in every way we are freed from all suffering.
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When for company, you find a wise and prudent friend who leads a good life, you'll, over
come all impediments,keeping their company joyfully and mindfully.
Whilst your visiting Akrotiri those same people you cos play for are taking part in war crimes and genocide.
The UK RAF is complicit in mass killing..
All the crews of those planes should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
SHAME ON YOU DENYING THE TRUTH
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Formerly this mind wandered about as it liked, where it wished, chasing pleasure.
Now I shall thoroughly master it with wisdom and compassion, as
a trainer controls an angry elephant.
Sometimes not getting what you want is a stroke of good luck..
Dali Lama
Excellent are well-trained mule, thoroughbred
Sindhu horses, and noble tusker elephants.
But better still is the man who has subdued himself.
They're gorgeous birds..
Wiki entry is an interesting read.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_s...
I've only ever seen them in Western Australia.. Apart from ornimental parks in Melbourne and Sydney..
A transcendent being with extensive powers and the highest manifestation of wisdom. Sat next to Buddha.
They're originally from Western Australia
The mind of an expert is closed.
A Beginner's mind is open to all possibilities.
Suzuki.
Entangled in the chains of hate, those who seek
own happiness by inflicting pain on others, never escape the suffering of hate.
The monk who has retired to a solitary abode and calmed his mind, who comprehends the Dhamma with insight, in him there arises a delight that transcends all human delights.
There is no meditative concentration for those who lack insight, and no insight for those who lack meditative concentration. In those where is found both meditative concentration and insight, are touching Nibbana.
The gift of Dhamma excels all gifts;
The taste of Dhamma excels all tastes;
The delight in Dhamma excels all delights. The Craving-Freed
vanquishes all suffering.
Riches ruin only the foolish, not those in quest of the Beyond. By craving for riches the witless man ruins himself as well as others.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, so shall I
endure suffering.
A tamed elephant is led into a crowd, and the king mounts the tamed elephant.
As the best among us practice subduing the mind is the one who endures suffering.
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Speak the truth; yield not to anger; when asked,
give, even if you only have a little. By these three
means can one reach the presence of the gods.
Those sages who are inoffensive and ever restrained in body, go to the Deathless State,
where, having gone, they grieve no more.
One should give up anger, renounce pride, and overcome all fetters.
Suffering never befalls him who clings not to mind and body and is detached.
He who checks rising anger as a charioteer
checks a rolling chariot, him I call a true charioteer. Others only hold the reins.
Giving himself to things to be shunned and not
exerting where exertion is needed, a seeker after
pleasures, having given up his true welfare, envies those intent upon theirs.
Happy indeed we live, friendly amidst the hostile.
Amidst hostile men we dwell free from hatred
Happy indeed we live, friendly amidst the afflicted by craving.
Amidst afflicted men we dwell free from affliction.
Happy equinox, one and all! xxx
Few among the people are those who cross to the farther shore.
The rest, the bulk of us, only run up
and down the hither bank
Not the sweet smell of flowers, not even the fra-
grance of sandal, tagara, or jasmine blows against the wind. But the fragrance of the virtuous blows against the wind.
Truly the virtuous man pervades all directions with the fragrance of
his virtue.
The significance of the Three Marks of Existence cannot be overstated. These truths about the nature of reality — impermanence, suffering, and not-self — are at the core of the Buddha’s teaching enlightenment.
Night night sleep tight.
A striver-on-the path shall overcome this earth,
this realm of Yama and this sphere of men and
gods. The striver-on-the-path shall bring to per-
fection the well-taught path of wisdom, as an ex-
pert garland-maker would his floral design
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As a bee gathers honey from the flower without
injuring its colour or fragrance, the sage goes on an alms-round in the village, quietly causing no harm.
As a fish, when pulled out of water and cast on
land throbs and quivers, even so is this mind agi-
tated.
Hence, one should abandon the realm of Mara.
