Wisdom through Mindfulness

Calm is his mind, calm his speech & his deed: one who's released through right knowing * , pacified, such. -Dhammapada * The right ...

" Just as a dog , tied by a leash to a post or stake, keeps running around and circling around that very post or stake; in the same way...

Suffering arises when the mind becomes too "sticky" to the sensory "foods" (five sensors and their respective stimuli). ...

The mindful keep active, don't delight in settling back. They renounce every home, every home, like swans taking off from a lake. ...

"Monks, suppose there were four strong archers — well-trained, practiced, & drilled — standing in the four directions, and a man we...

As a mountain of rock is unmoving, firmly established, so a monk, with the ending of delusion, like a mountain, doesn't quake. Thag 14....

Blinded by sensuality covered by the net, veiled with the veil of craving, bound by the bond of heedlessness, like fish in the mouth of a t...

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House...

"Suppose a man was being carried along by the flow of a river, lovely & alluring. And then another man with good eyesight, standing...

The wandering solitary sage, uncomplacent, unshaken by praise or blame. Unstartled , like a lion at sounds. Unsnared , like the wind in a ne...

" Suppose, monks , that in a forested wilderness there were a large low-lying marsh, in dependence on which there lived a large herd of...

Three skillful thoughts * should be thought, three unskillful thoughts rejected. Whoever stills sustained thoughts — as rain would, a cloud...

Whoever takes a rod to harm living beings desiring ease, when he himself is looking for ease, will meet with no ease after death. Whoever do...

Just as when two or three drops of water fall onto an iron pan heated all day: Slow is the falling of the drops of water, but they quickly ...

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed....

http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~psyphy/pdfs/Hutcherson_08_2.pdf

Like a mural you've seen, painted on a wall, smeared with yellow orpiment, there your vision has been distorted, meaningless is your pe...

" Now suppose that a man falls sick — in pain and seriously ill. He does not enjoy his meals, and there is no strength in his body. As...

An evil deed, when done, doesn't — like ready milk — come out right away. It follows the fool, smoldering like a fire hidden in ashes. ...