Meditation is not a religion. Meditation is not some strange or foreign practice that requires you to alter your beliefs, reject your culture, or change your religion. Meditation is not a religion at all, but rather a practical, scientific, and systematic technique for knowing yourself on all levels. Meditation does not belong to any culture or religion of the world, but is a pure and simple method of exploring the inner dimensions of life and finally establishing oneself in one's own essential nature. The system of meditation promotes inner spirituality, not any particular religion. Meditation should be practiced as a pure technique, in a systematic, orderly way.
~ Swami Rama
~ Swami Rama
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~ Muso Kokushi
Virtue without wisdom
Virtue without wisdom is said to be an enemy for three lifetimes.
When the time is passed in ignorance, doing only contaminated good, virtue in hopes of reward, it is therefore not possible to clarify the true ground of mind. This is the enemy of the first lifetime.
As a result of contaminated virtue, pleasurable states eventually develop. Still in the realm of
Virtue without wisdom
Virtue without wisdom is said to be an enemy for three lifetimes.
When the time is passed in ignorance, doing only contaminated good, virtue in hopes of reward, it is therefore not possible to clarify the true ground of mind. This is the enemy of the first lifetime.
As a result of contaminated virtue, pleasurable states eventually develop. Still in the realm of
emotion, they occasion a deepening of mundane attachments. These attachments become influences toward greedy and possessive behaviour. This the enemy of the second lifetime.
When the pleasurable states are worn out, while the force of ignorance has not been diminished but rather increased habitual attachment to the rewards of virtue, the fall from the state of elevation of feeling produces negative reactions. this the enemy of the third lifetime.
( Be aware of doing good from the pure state of mind and using your wisdom to deliver it with no thinking of rewards.)
When the pleasurable states are worn out, while the force of ignorance has not been diminished but rather increased habitual attachment to the rewards of virtue, the fall from the state of elevation of feeling produces negative reactions. this the enemy of the third lifetime.
( Be aware of doing good from the pure state of mind and using your wisdom to deliver it with no thinking of rewards.)
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~ Muso Kokushi
Quelling Demons
A simple method of quelling demons is to refrain from clinging to anything mentally. this is illustrated by an ancient story, in which a strange person used to roam around the grounds of a hermitage of a certain meditation master. Sometimes he would appear as a Buddhist saint, sometimes as a celestial king, sometimes radiating extraordinary light, sometimes uttering
Quelling Demons
A simple method of quelling demons is to refrain from clinging to anything mentally. this is illustrated by an ancient story, in which a strange person used to roam around the grounds of a hermitage of a certain meditation master. Sometimes he would appear as a Buddhist saint, sometimes as a celestial king, sometimes radiating extraordinary light, sometimes uttering
strange sayings. This continued for ten years, and then it sstopped.
The meditation master told his disciples, " A celestial demon had beec coming here to bother me, but no matter waht appearance it created, I dealt with it by not looking or listening. The demon's manifestation had an end, but my not looking and not listening have no end."
( Meditators, please bear in mind, whatever you see or hear in the form of Buddha are not true. So just ignore it- Diamond sutra said.)
The meditation master told his disciples, " A celestial demon had beec coming here to bother me, but no matter waht appearance it created, I dealt with it by not looking or listening. The demon's manifestation had an end, but my not looking and not listening have no end."
( Meditators, please bear in mind, whatever you see or hear in the form of Buddha are not true. So just ignore it- Diamond sutra said.)
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Living beings " become" enlightened beings in one sense when they realise their true nature and find that many feelings about living are implanted by conditioning and not part of the real individual. But becoming an enlightened being does not mean becoming a zombie, or having no personality. It does not even mean having no emotion, thoughts, or afflictions. it means being free in the midst of it all, being master of yourself, able to use or not use at will whatever elements of possiblility are available to you as individual.
Therefore becoming enlightened means consciously making cause and effect work and not to be enslaved to any of these elements.
Therefore becoming enlightened means consciously making cause and effect work and not to be enslaved to any of these elements.
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