Renunciation
Shantideva says in Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life:
By depending upon this boat-like human form,
We can cross the great ocean of suffering.
Since such a vessel will be hard to find again,
This is no time to sleep, you fool!
If there were a truly existent I,
It would make sense to be afraid of certain things;
But, since there is no truly existent I,
Who is there to be afraid?
Samsara is like a vast ocean, for just as an ocean gives rise to waves, so rebirth in samsara gives rise to suffering. At the moment we have a precious human body, which is the best vessel for crossing this perilous ocean of samsara. If we were to waste this precious life without taking full advantage of it, we would be extremely foolish. We would be like the adventurer who had to wait a long time to find a boat that would take him to a treasure island but who, having finally found one, fell asleep instead of taking immediate advantage of it. How foolish he felt when he awoke to discover that the long-awaited vessel had ...
"The language of Light is wordless, but in it is the essence of meaning" Walter Russell
"Meditation is the instrument used for the raising of one's Awareness to the highest levels of consciousness." Dr. Kandasamy Arunachalam
"2.26 The continuous practice of discrimination is the means of attaining liberation." The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
"Think that he (He / She / Fire) is outside of all things, and deep in the inside of all things; and that thou and thy world are only the thing between; and that outside and inside are both identical, couldst thou understand the supernatural truths!"
The Philosophy of Fire by Clymer, R. Swinburne pg 164
"Meditation is certainly superior to intelligence. The earth seems to be meditating. The space between the earth and heaven seems to be meditating. So also, heaven seems to be meditating. Water seems to be meditating. The mountains seem to be meditating. Gods and human beings also seem to be meditating."
Chandogya Upanishad
By pure thought, by ...
