The truth of procrastination (Vivekananda)
For those who procrastinate regarding renunciation, saying, “Oh, not so soon! I shall do it when the time comes,” Self-realization is very far off….
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Love them, build it, succeed, be honest and do good anyway (Madre Theresa)
People are sometimes unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Do good anyway….
Pré-requisitos para a mente “conhecer” Deus
“It is true that the mind can never turn to God until the desire for lust and wealth has gone from it, be the…
Quem vê a origem dependente vê o Dharma
Quem vê a origem dependente vê o Dhamma; quem vê o Dhamma vê a origem dependente (MN 28) ~ The Great Discourse on Causation…
Os Estranhos Fins-de-Semana de Louis Teroux na Índia
Vi esse episódio há alguns anos no GNT e conseguir resgatar no GoogleVideo: Os Estranhos Fins-de-Semana de Louis Teroux, episódio “Enlightenment” (ele encontra a…
Mind is the foreruneer of all states. (Dhammapada)
Mind is the forerunner of (all evil) states. Mind is chief; mind-made are they. If one speaks or acts with wicked mind, suffering follows…
“Tudo que a gente vê no universo”
All that we see in the universe has for its basis this one struggle towards freedom. It is under the impulse of this tendency…
Why go to dig a well on the shores of the Ganga?
Do you love your fellow men? Where should you go to seek for God–are not all the poor, the miserable, the weak, God? Why…
Buddha e a Nobre Verdade III, para meu avô.
III “What is the noble truth of the cessation of suffering? It is the remainderless fading and cessation of that same craving, the rejecting,…
“Pra quem realmente quer julgar alguém”
“If you really want to judge of the character of others, look not at their great performances. Every fool may become a hero at…
The Wise Donkey
Via Sri Aurobindo Society. One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried…
“Flexible and flowing” (Tao)
“Whatever is flexible and flowing will tend to grow, whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.” ~ Tao Te Ching
“Buddhas and sentient beings”
“Those who have great realization of delusion are buddhas; those who are great deluded about realization are sentient beings.” ~ Dogen (Soto Zen)
“Losing individuality”
“Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn’t it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become…
The end and the butterfly (Lao Tse)
“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.” ~ Lao Tzu
The whole universe (vs. limited things)
“They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go…
E quando o mundo é apenas o meio…
“What is material and what is not material? When the world is the end and God the means to attain that end, then that…
“Nós somos os demônios vivos”
“Seja forte! Não fale de fantasmas e demônios. Nós somos os demônios vivos. O sinal da vida é força e evolução. O sinal da…
Darkness and God, the meeting (the fable)
There is an old fable…. Darkness approached God and said, “Enough is enough! Your sun goes on haunting me, chasing me. I can never…
The end of disease on Earth
(…) Third, and perhaps most important, to recognize with you that the purpose of disease on Earth, much more than being an intellectual purpose,…