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    Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations
    Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations
    Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations
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    Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations

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    Open up Daily Wisdom and find page after page of illuminating words. You'll encounter ancient Buddhist sages and contemporary meditation masters offering encouragement and quiet counsel - some in spacious poetry, others in lucid prose - on love and living wisely, on meditation and mindfulness, on the pitfalls of anger and necessity of compassion. Whether you're seeking morning inspiration or a few uplifting words to help keep a difficult day in perspective, Daily Wisdom is a valuable companion. Includes words of wisdom from:
    • The Dalai Lama
    • Lama Yeshe
    • Ayya Khema
    • Bhante G.
    • Thich Nhat Hanh
    • B. Allan Wallace
    • Lorne Ladner
    • Sandy Boucher
    • Lama Zopa Rinpoche
    • Master Hsing Yun
    • Sakya Pandita
    • Milarepa
    • Kalu Rinpoche
    • and many more!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWisdom Publications
    Release dateFeb 8, 2013
    ISBN9780861718214
    Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations

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      Daily Wisdom - Wisdom Publications

      PREFACE

      Cited within these pages are representatives from many streams of Buddhist thought and practice: Tibetan lamas and Burmese teachers, Zen masters and tantric adepts, Asians and Westerners, monastics and lay people, poets and pundits. And yet, as diverse as these sources are, their words all point to the same open, compassionate heart and wise, unhindered mind.

      Our utmost gratitude goes to the myriad teachers, translators, and editors whose generous efforts have given rise to the original works from which Daily Wisdom is drawn. We hope the page-a-day format invites you to spend a few moments of quiet reflection with each excerpt to truly feel the beating heart of these living words. But most of all, in offering this compilation it is our sincere hope that you find encouragement, illumination, perhaps even solace, as you follow your own path deeper into daily wisdom.

      Josh Bartok

      on behalf of the staff of

      Wisdom Publications

      Somerville, Mass.

      JANUARY 1

            How, dear sir, did you cross the flood?

            By not halting, friend, and by not straining I crossed the flood.

            But how is it, dear sir, that by not halting and by not straining you crossed the flood?

            When I came to a standstill, friend, then I sank; but when I struggled, then I got swept away. It is in this way, friend, that by not halting and by not straining I crossed the flood.

      JANUARY 2

      There simply is nothing to which we can attach ourselves, no matter how hard we try. In time, things will change and the conditions that produced our current desires will be gone. Why then cling to them now?

      JANUARY 3

      The temptation is to conclude that perhaps meditation is alright for some but dead wrong for you. In my case, meditation started out painful and tedious beyond words. Extremely convincing arguments for giving up before you have even started will almost certainly occur to you— don’t listen to them.

      JANUARY 4

      When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up.

      JANUARY 5

      Wisdom does not mean knowledge but experiential understanding. Wisdom helps you to change radically your habits and perceptions, as you discover the constantly changing, interconnected nature of the whole of existence.

      JANUARY 6

      We plant merit with our minds, and we commit crimes with our minds. With our minds, we imprint images. This one mind is like an artist. It can draw anything, and what it draws is realized. If you surrender your impressions, ideas, thoughts, and so on at the moment they arise without imprinting them on your mind, your mind will not be tainted, just as the lotus flower is not tainted by the muddy water whence it grows.

      JANUARY 7

      This mind and body is our household. If this inner household is not in order, no outer household can be in order.

      JANUARY 8

      No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.

      JANUARY 9

      Try to be reasonable in the way you grow, and don’t ever think it is too late. It is never too late. Even if you are going to die tomorrow, keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today. If you keep your situation happy day by day, you will eventually reach the greatest happiness of enlightenment.

      JANUARY 10

      On the basis of the belief that all human beings share the same divine nature, we have a very strong ground, a very powerful reason, to believe that it is possible for each of us to develop a genuine sense of equanimity toward all beings.

      JANUARY 11

      Honesty can be cultivated by transforming your inner language. For example, you might think: I am no good or They are not good. Is this true? For some strange reason, people want to wallow in the idea of being either the best or the worst. What is true in this moment? How close can we get to the reality of our experiences?

      JANUARY 12

      The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing though a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future. Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

      JANUARY 13

      Leave the mind in its natural, undisturbed state. Don’t follow thoughts of This is a problem, that is a problem! Without labeling difficulties as problems, leave your mind in its natural state. In this way, you will stop seeing miserable conditions as problems.

      JANUARY 14

      There is a well-known simile about a monkey trap of the kind used in Asia—a wooden container with a small opening. Inside lies a sweet. The monkey, attracted by the sweet, puts his paw into the opening and grasps the sweet. When he wants to draw his paw out again, he cannot get his fist with the sweet through the narrow opening. He is trapped until the hunter comes and captures him. He does not realize that all he has to do to be free is let go of the sweet. That is

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