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To all or none,
FINDING OUR MIND

When we are stressed about something,or very busy,we often say we are loosing our minds.But where were they before they were lost and where did they go to ?

In the Surangama Sutra,a popular Buddhist text inVietnam and China,thr Buddha and
His disciple ANANDA discuss how to locate the mind.IS it inside the body,outside the body ,or in between the body and the world outside?Ultimately,thr sutra teaches IS that Mind in non-local.In other words,you cannot say that it IS inside the body,ooutside the body,or in between.It does not have one set location.
TNH.
LOONG THE MESSENGER.

Yes, I have always found this one of the most helpful teachings and basis for a meditation practice. Just sit and try to find the mind. Or sit and try to find the 'I' where all of your thoughts and emotions come from. You cannot find it, but the looking can plummet you into pure awareness...

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Walking Meditation.

The Mind can go in a thousand directions,
But on this beautiful path,INSECT walk in peace ,
With each step ,a gentle wind blow ,
with each step ,a flwer blooms.

THICH NHAT HANH

LOONGTHE MESSENGER.

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I made a typing error in the 2nd line .
Instead of insect the word should have been ,I,.

Loong

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WALKING IN THE PURE LAND.

If you are walking with Buddha,s feet,you are walking in heaven,you are walking in the Pure Land with each step.With Mindfulness,you become aware of your step,and you touch the Pure Land with all it,s wonders,Such a step generates freedom,joy,and healing.We all know that walking meditation IS to enjoy walking in the Kingdom of the Universe,in the Pure Land of the Buddha,and walking like thatcan transform,can heal,can generate a lot of love inside.
Wewalk not only for ourselves ,we walk for our parents,our ancestors,andfor those who are suffering in the world.The Pure land IS something we bring along with IS wherever we go-a portable Pure Land.
That IS the best thing you can offer to the people you encounter.Offer them nothing less than the Pure Land or the Kingdom of the Universe.

You are a Bodhisattva, that.s the kind of gift that,s worth making to the people around you.

THICH NHAT HANH

Loong the messenger.
P.s. I took the liberty of changing 2 words in the text.
If you want to know what they were just e-mail me or message me.

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MINDFULNESS,

A great word.To the persons that are not accustomed to this word, The simplest way it can bedescribed,IS,


The capacity to live in this instant ,now.

Mindfulness IS the only moment where truth exists.
It IS the moment where you are really alive.All the previous instants are already illusions.Gone .

Loong

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The practice of mindfulness helps us to become the BUDDHA in the here and the now.

THICH NHAT HANH

Loongthe messenger.

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I was listening to various Masters on various subject,came upon an interview with THICH NHAT HANH on Anger,Mindfulness,impermanence,compassion .

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84lOtc3AkKM[url]

Please take 10 minutes of your life to listen to the Master,instead of my quotes ,from his book

_/\_
loong

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Purety of the mind,really something to attain.When Sem goes on,
purity is already gone.Equanimity and Mindfulness are the moments of purity.
If someone lives in mansland,he is far from the purity of the Mind (Rigpa).

loong

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In Buddhism ,the only Creator is :MIND,just like a movie theatre.

In the 80's this is what I was teaching to my students.

Has not changed and will not change.

loong
just an Illusion