See the moon’s bright blaze of light,
A shining lamp, above the world
Full glistening and hanging in vast void.
That brilliant jewel,
Its brightness, through the mist.
Some people say it waxes, wanes
Their’s may, but mine remains
As steady as the Mani Pearl
This light knows neither day or night.
~ Shih Te (730)
@rookie54 saidA woman wants someone (usually but not necessarily a man) to just know what she wants without her having to tell him. And it keeps changing. That’s what we both love and fear about them. Oh, yes, and that they’re mysterious and beautiful, that, too; they want us to know that about them without them having to remind us all the time.
aside from the last quote you've attributed to freud, which i do not understand,
those others seem rather useful, if not downright profound...
i've had nearly fifty years of various relationships with various women and i have learned only that they are all different, all want something different, rarely take no for an answer, and are mostly quite hypnotizing to me...
heck, i'll not try to lump all women into the all women box, it don't work...
Buddha is concealed within sentient beings
If for one instant of thought we become impartial,
Then sentient beings are themselves Buddha.
In our mind itself a buddha exists,
Our own buddha is the true Buddha.
If we do not have in ourselves the Buddha mind,
Then where are we to seek Buddha?
~ Huineng (638-713)
The six supernormal faculties of the enlightened
Are the ability to enter the realm of form, without being confused by form
To enter the realm of sound, without being confused by sound
To enter the realm of scent without being confused by scent
To enter the realm of flavor without being confused by flavor
To enter the realm of feeling without being confused by feeling
To enter the realm of phenomena without being confused by phenomena
~ Linji (d. 867)
May the sound of the bell and drum dispel afflictions
May it nourish the roots of wisdom
And give rise to the fruit of awareness
May it carry to the depths of Hell
And echo through the Three Realms
(Desire, Form, and Formlessness)
And may all who hear it become Buddhas
And vow to liberate others
Evening song of offering from Wu Hsiang Temple
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are two: reason and practice.
To enter by reason means to realize the principle through instruction and to believe that all living beings share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
Those who turn from delusion back to reality, who meditate on walls, the absence of self and other, the oneness of mortal and sage, and who remain unmoved, even by scriptures, are in unspoken agreement with reason. Free of discrimination and effort, they enter, we say, by reason.
Bodhidharma