Where is heaven and hell?
There was once a monk whose favorite subject for his preaching was ‘heaven and hell’. One of the devotees who was getting tired of listening to the monk’s constant repetition, one day stood up and asked: ‘Tell me where is this heaven and hell? If you cannot answer me, I will call you a liar!’ [...]...
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Sometimes when we are faced with a serious problem, we feel depressed with its seeming magnitude and weight. When this happens, it is profitable to wander out in the evening and look up at the sky. We see countless numbers of stars. From outer space, the sun in our solar system will only appear as [...]...
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Boltan Hall has written the following lines: I looked at my brother with the microscope of criticism, And I said, ‘How coarse my brother is!’ I looked at him through the telescope of scorn, And I said, ‘How small my brother is!’ Then I looked in the mirror of truth, And I said, ‘How like me my brother is!’ ~ o0o ~ [...]...
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The Buddha was asked this question: Why do the noble beings who have developed their minds appear so calm and radiant? The Buddha replied: ‘They sorrow not for what is past, They yearn not after that which is not come, The present is sufficient for them: Hence it is they appear so radiant. By having longing for the future, By sorrowing [...]...
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The Buddha spoke about the four kinds of wrong speech. The first is lying. When a person goes to a court of justice, or in the company of relatives and friends, he would say ‘I know’ when he does not, and ‘I don’t know’ when he does. To save himself, or for the sake of [...]...
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Once four intimate friends promised one another to observe seven days of silence in quiet meditation. On the first day all were silent, and the meditation went on as scheduled. But when night came, the oil-lamp they were using ran out of oil and started to flicker. A servant was dozing off nearby. One of [...]...
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There was a lion who longed to eat his favorite delicacy, buffalo meat. There was in the forest just such a buffalo, but try as he might, he was unable to catch this tasty beast. So he decided to use his cunning to get what he wanted. He called his assistant, a fox, and said [...]...
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So I will give you one meditation…. Every night before going to bed, just sit in your bed, put the light off. Close your eyes, relax your body and then just feel that the whole room is full of golden mist… as if gold mist is falling all around. Mm? just visualise it for one minute [...]...
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Practice love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy. Feel vibrating with a new frequency, feel swaying as if you are in the ocean of love. Create vibrations of love energy around you. And you will start feeling immediately that something is happening — something [...]...
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LIKE A HOLLOW BAMBOO REST AT EASE WITH YOUR BODY. This is one of Tilopa’s special methods. Every Master has his own special method through which he has attained, and through which he would like to help others. This is Tilopa’s specialty: A bamboo: inside completely hollow. When you rest, you just feel that you are like [...]...
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