Sri M said...
The Buddha was fond of saying that the human body was like a sore or a boil bound to fall off at any point in time. Somebody asked him once, “If the body is like an open sore, why do you look after...
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Sri M said...
There is sorrow in the mind. The sorrow off not being able to attain something we want. This is the greatest of sorrows. The other sorrows are considerably physical and economic in their causes; bu...
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I have an image about myself. I desire to be presented to the world as what I built myself to be. When the bubble breaks - when somebody pricks it - then I am miserable. I am in sorrow.
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Nirvana is freedom from sorrow for all mankind, the cessation of the separate identity, and the cessation of the identity of the self. The cessation of desire is Nirvana, total freedom; and that is...
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The priestly class, who considered themselves the guardians of Hinduism and its scriptures, declared that Shankaracharya was none other than a Buddhist in disguise. They called him a ‘Prachanda Bou...
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Just before his final enlightenment, it is said that the Goddess of Maya called Mara tempted Siddhartha. Mara danced before him in all her charm and promised him everything on earth and heaven, onl...
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In history, when Shankracharya arrived years after Buddha, he preached the teachings of the Upanishads and said, "No amount of ritual, no amount of sacrifice will take you to the Truth." You have t...
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The difference between Gautam Buddha and us: All our lives, we meet poor and sick people, old and starving, here and there on footpaths, but we don’t become Buddha. Our mind doesn’t change. Why? Be...
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If by torturing oneself, one could reach the Supreme, it must be a funny Supreme who has decreed that a person should torture himself in order to reach Him. If you starve the body, the brain ceases...
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There is no individual self. There is only that which is the Truth. When one realises the illusory nature of the individual self, when it is snuffed out into shunyata - nothingness - what remains i...
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After all our duties and responsibilities are carried out, our children carry these responsibilities forward. At that stage, comes Sanyasa. No use running away from life before that stage. Even if ...
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In these times, we don’t have this training to stave off distractions. Now, in childhood itself, we are too exposed to TV, Internet, this and that. Therefore, the mind has already been disturbed an...