Petals of White Lotus

A Practitioner's Notes - Understanding, experiences, realizations, musings : of Buddhist teachings - Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Tantrayana, Zen. By Luminous Light, Hong Kong

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Abundance - of Nothing and Everything
Accidents
All is Nothing
All-is-in-One
Causes and Effects
Chance
Coincidence
Communication
Creation
Death - Cremation & Disposal of Ashes
Death - Sorrow in Death
Delusion : Guidelines for Removal of Distracting Thoughts - by Five Specific Ways
Delusion of "Self"
Delusion of Restlessness
Discursive Mind
Divine Communication
Eat or Drink Your Way to Enlightenment
Ego - A Way to Achieve Egolessness
Ego - Egolessness through Love
Elements - Wisdom of the Elements
God & Nirvana
Healing Practice
Karmic You
Mindfulness - An Ode to Mindfulness
Mindfulness - of the Mind
New Minds New Realities
One-is-in-All
Out of Body Experience OBE
Purity of Sex
Purity of Virgins
Reflection
Reflection - A Start
Reinforcement
Sanctity of Marriage
Self - Recognizing
Self – Deconstructed – Finding Our Self
Self – Survival in the Social Classes
Self Projection
Speech – Transition and Transmutation from Form to Formless
Stillness - By Sharmini Jayawardena
Synchronicity
Tetralemma ( Quadrilemma )
This is Water – Undoing the David Foster Wallace
Vipassana - What is Vipassana
Wisdom
Zen

Good and Bad

"“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”" - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2

Curse of the Ego

"Curse of the ego is to be born at its behest, to suffer its will, blinding us, to both what we sense, and from what we don’t, and our true nature of who we are and who we are not." - Luminous Light, 31 October, 2021

Life's Lessons

"One can be taught many lessons in life, but learning is only possible through realization, realization of what is learned from concept, experienced in reality, manifests in its true reality. The lesson is never finished but only begins when the curtain falls on the melodrama, the cornucopia of conceptualizations." - Luminous Light, 31 October, 2021

Harmony in Elements

"Those who do not have harmony in elements are condemned to suffer in their disharmony" - Luminous Light, 13 February, 2016

Wisdom

"Seek wisdom wherever it is and then you find it is one, it is all the same, and it is everywhere" - White Lotus, 25 March 2015

Mindfulness

“Mindfulness is presence. Presence is in the now.

Now is not before or after.

Now is neither retrospection whilst being in a past nor speculation whilst being in a future.

Now is always past in a future, and so a future is always before in a now and both are always before in a past.

The future is not present but an illusion of the present as is the past in the present.

To be mindful and present in the now is to see the thought before the thought, the sound before the sound, the image before the image, the taste before the taste, the smell before the smell and the sensation before the sensation.

Mindfulness is being neither of the subjective mind nor the objective mind but of the mind of spaciousness and clarity, of being in the awakened mind, the mind of Bodhicitta "

- White Lotus, 8-Jul-2014

No Time, No Change, No Impernanence

"It is not the wind that moves; it is not the flag that moves; it is the mind that moves" - Chinese master Huineng (638-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Ch'an - Mind of Duality

"It is not the wind that moves; it is not the flag that moves; it is not the mind that moves" - Wu-men Kuan (Huikai): Chinese Zen Master early 13th century, Japanese Mumon Ekai 1183-1260, The Gateless Gate, Case 29. - Non-Dual Mind

White Lotus 17-May-15: Wind, Flag, Mind, moves No Zen. In Zen nothing neither moves nor not moves

Distraction

"Life is not complete without distraction except for those who can concentrate on nothing" – White Lotus

Hope

"Buddhism offers no hope for the ignorant and those who have no hopes are only the enlightened" – White Lotus, 15 May 2012.

Self View

"We spend a lot of our time attacking those who oppose it and defending it against those who attack it" – White Lotus

Sharing and Giving

"Sharing and Giving multiplies happiness and lightens suffering". Sharing and Giving conditions our core being which in turn influences our feelings and perceptions of happiness and sadness" – White Lotus, 15 May 2012

Gain from Giving

“You must do good, but you must not talk about it. If you talk about it you're taking advantage of others misfortunes for your own gain" - Gino Bartali, the Italian cyclist who saved Jews in war time Italy 1939-45.

Altruism - The "Middle Way"

"One should not neglect one's own welfare through excessive altruism" - The Dhammapada Verse 166 : "Attadattham paratthena bahuna pi na hapaye; attadattham abhinnaya sadatthapasuto siya"

The noblest person is one who avoids suffering for himself as well as others,

A noble action is one that contributes to one's own happiness and happiness of others.

Noble compassion is to cultivate compassion for one's own person as well as to others.

The Mind in Practice

"When we understand how the mind works practice becomes easy" - Vietnamese Zen Master Thuong Chiue ‘Always Shining” (1200 CE)

More about Nothing

“The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Liberation

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation- Tibetan Saying.

No time to sleep...

"By depending upon the boat-like human form we can cross the great ocean of suffering,

Since such a vessel will be hard to find again there is no time to sleep, you fool"

-Shantideva in the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life

First Step to Wisdom

"The first step towards wisdom consists in getting the skandhas into view. This requires considerable knowledge, practice and skill, but it is the indispensable basis for all that follows" – Edward Conze

Emptiness of Dharmas

"The infinitely far-away is not only near, but it is infinitely near. It is nowhere and nowhere is it not. This is the only mystical identity of opposites. Nirvana is the same as the world, it is not only 'in' and 'with you' but you are nothing but it" – Edward Conze

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Analysis: An analysis of dependent co-arising dependent both on Ignorance (Avijja) and Clear Understanding (Viddya)

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