A Quote by Gautama Buddha
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones
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To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
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I just want to purify my body, purify my mind, and make good music and keep living my life.
Mindfulness is not just a word or a
discourse by the Buddha, but a
meaningful state of mind. It means
we have to be here now, in this very
moment, and we have to know what
is happening internally and
externally. It means being alert to
our motives and learning to change
unwholesome thoughts and
emotions into wholesome ones
Mindfulness is a mental activity that
in due course eliminates all
suffering.
It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the mind, it can be put aside. One can become disidentified with the mind. To know "I am not the mind," is real purity because then you are only consciousness, awareness, a witnessing. To live twenty-four hours a day as a witness is the way of the sannyasin.
Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.
Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.
Repentance is replete with radical implications for a fundamental change of mind not only turns us from the sinful past, but also transforms our life plan, ethics, and actions as we begin to see the world through God's eyes rather than ours. That kind of transformation requires the ultimate surrender of self.
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, purify your body by sensible living habits, purify your mind by expelling all negative thoughts, purify your motives by casting out any ideas of greed or self-striving and by seeking to serve you fellow human beings, purify your desires by eliminating all wishes for material possessions or
self-glorification and by desiring to know and do God's will for you. Inspire others to do likewise.
The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good
deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.
