Sunday, December 22, 2013

Here are my aspirations worded in a better and far more advanced way than i could ever create

i aspire to head in this direction.

"The principal focus is on cultivating a mind wishing to benefit other sentient beings.  With an increase in our own sense of peace and happiness we will naturally be better able to contribute to the peace and happiness of others.  Given the habitual orientation of the mind, fixed as it is upon the supposed reality of ego and phenomena, rooted in the duality of subject and object... the fact that an impulse toward perfect altruism and self-forgetting can arise at all seems nothing short of miraculous.
The doctrine of karma has only one message: the experience of states of being follows upon the perpetration of acts.
Buddhism teaches that the object of compassion is simply suffering itself.  All beings, at all times and regardless of circumstances, are worthy objects.  The vow of the bodhisattva is to deliver beings from suffering, in other words to deliver them from the causes of their suffering.
How is it, that mere thoughts can cause so much havoc?  It is simply because we allow them to do so.  Thoughts after all are merely thoughts.
The simple but difficult task is to become aware of how thoughts emerge and develop.  Just as the mind is the source of every suffering, likewise it is the wellspring of every joy."

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