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Dear Burt,

May I ask to you what is the Divine.?As for Reality,it is what happens in an instant moment or a now.That instant moment passed reality has already changed.

Tell me can you swim twice in the same river?

loong

To all or none,

There are other things that are appealing but which are not dangerous.For example ,going out to help people. You are motivated by the desire to help,to serve,to recconcile.Maybe there will be some danger,you may even lose your life.But if you have a lot of compassion,if you have the insight that there is no
birth and no death ,you are no longer afraid and go anyway.That kind of desire is wholesome.

That is Volition

Author TNH

loong the messenger.

To all or none,

I wish I could have the part of my Mind called SEM with the
following:Mind your own business ,Norm

loong

To all or none,
Jesus of Nazareth ,said forgive them for that they do not know what they have done:
When an individual makes himself guilty of a crime,and make others suffer,it is because ,he does not measure of his act.Many
young men commit crimes,but they do not understand that that violence has terrible consequences.
Every act of that type, is directed at themselves and the victims.They might think that they are appeasing their anger by
doing so,but this anger will grow.

Traduction ,loong ,author THICH NHAT HANH.

To all or none,
The text that will follow is the Foreward ,of the book Buddha Mind,Buddha Body,Walking Toward Enlightenment.Sylvia Boorstein
wrote this beautiful text.

The compelling summary image for this wonderfully comforting and
inspired book comes in its opening pages.Say you are struggling with a computer problem.Your older brother arrives as you are about to give up and says:move over:I'll take over a little.You are reassured even before the problem is solved.

That Big Brother is the Buddha within each of us,our clearest understanding.And Thich Nhat Hanh with his friendly,patient,steadfast,confident,contemporary and often witty voice,seems,to me, an intermediary big brother.On each page of this book ,he talks directly to us ,saying,:Look Right there within you is the very wisdom that leads to compassion:

This is a small book ,but everything is in it is articulated with poetry,with traditional Buddhist images,with religious vocabulary from western tradition.That it should be about everything ,and presented in universalistic language,is completely consistent with its underlying message:There is nothing at all separate from all that is. Interbeing is all there is.I'ts impossible to read this book without being inspired to redoublr one's efforts on behalf of other people,on behalf of all beings,and on behalf of the planet,knowing these efforts will also lead to our own HAPPINESS

Sylvia Boorstein.

loong's comment:many post you have read in the buddhism section ,came from this book,and more will

loong

To all or none,

The quality of our life
depends on the quality
of the seeds
that lie deep in our consciousnee.

byVasubandu

loong

To all or none,

Text by Banthe

Friends:Any conscious & material moment dies instantly!


Life, personality, pleasure, pain, endures joined in one conscious moment,
that flicks by... Whether such ceased clusters of clinging are those of a
dead or alive does not matter, they are all alike, momentarily gone never
to return... No world is born and appears as manifest, if consciousness is
not produced! Only when consciousness is present, does the world emerge!
When consciousness momentarily dissolves, the world is dead and vanished!
So both the being & the world starts and ends within each conscious moment!
Both are reborn millions of times per second! Not only at conventional death..
This is how death also should be recollected, as the shortness of the moment.
This is the highest sense this concept of conscious existence ever will allow...!
(Source: Visuddhimagga I 238, Nd I 42)

loong's comment: This text really explains one of the great finds I made ,in Buddhism,IMPERMANENCE.
P.S. Today I lived a BLISSFULL day.

To all or none.

Been a while.With all the things happening in my life,Now,may it be ,mansland or spiritland,I discovered that my knowledge is
limited,when one enters ,the depths of Buddhism.Yet I now know my role in the Buddhism world.If you verify ,Pratyekabuddha,his role is to learn.He can share ,but not teach.I have a few people that want to know the basics of buddhism,I am there.I read books for my learning and share my discoveries with you.My Master/Teacher is not one that I can converse with and deepen my understandings of certain subject.Distance and disponibility.

I have come to peace with this role.
I give,give,give,like Buddha said.That is my role.
Today being my birthday,Had to slip this in I want to thank you for accepting the posts ,I have and will be still giving.

If they are quotes from books,I will no more sign the posts.

loong the learner

To all or none,

I once wrote in a post that I would write a book on myself.
Then I found myself arrogant to think this way.
In a book by TNH ,he recommends that one write a book about himself, to share his dharma.

Starting tonight

loong

To all or none,

Equanimity:The capacity to see how things really are.......

Right now my body is giving signs of what condition it really is
in.
I am open minded enough to accept it finally.My false pride always kept me to accept it.However being a survivor ,I still will BE.
Ishould be writing less and less posts,and living my Dharma more.

May your buddhahood be present in your mind.

loong