Everyday Thoughts

Suttas

Blig-
Listening to: Classics, lazy to list em.(ie,moonlight sonata, nutcracker, etc etc)
Been: organizing, planning, thinking (slowly), enjoying the peace & tranquility.

I know-this is the best time for meditation,but, the willpower to get one to sit down and sit still is, huge. I guess taht is what is meant by Sila,Samadhi,Panna. Sila,to get the morality right is the first part,the foundation. Samadhi, takes another level of commitment and effort. Only then,wisdom arises.

I look at this blog and am not sure what I want to write. But suttas are nice reminders so I will type it in:

Metta Sutta (Loving Kindness Discourse)
One skilled in good, wishing to attain that state of peace should act thus:

He should be able, straight and upright,obedient, gentle and humble
He should be content, easy to support, with few duties, living lightly, controlled in senses, discreet, not impudent, unattached to families.
He should not do any slight wrong for which the wise might censure him.
May all beings be happy and secure.
May all beings have happy minds.

Whatever living beings there may be-without exception, weak or strong, long, large, middling, short, subtle, or gross.
Visible, or invisible, living near or far, born or coming to birth--
May all beings have happy minds.

Let no one deceive another nor despise anyone anywhere. Neither in anger or ill will should anyone wish harm to another.
As a mother would risk her own life to protect her only child, even so towards all living beings one should cultivate a boundless heart.

One should cultivate for all the world a heart of boundless loving-kindness, above, below,and cross, unobstructed, without hate or enmity.
Whether standing, walking or sitting, lying down or whenever awake, he should develop this mindfulness; this is called divinely dwelling here.

Not falling into erroneous views, but virtuous and endowed with visions, removing desire for sensual pleasures, he comes never again to birth the womb.

By the power of this truth, may I always enjoy well-being.
Sadhu,sadhu sadhu....!!!

Labels: Buddhism

posted by Songie @ 4:34 AM