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Evil

What is evil?

May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'What is Evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion. is the root of evil. Buddha'

𝐈 𝐀 𝐌 𝐁 𝐔 𝐃 𝐃 𝐇 𝐈 𝐒 𝐓

April 19, 2023 | Categories: Evil, Zen | Leave a comment

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil

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If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil,

you yourself will become ugly. Look only for

the good in everything so you absorb the

quality of beauty.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Zen Mindfulness, Love and Compassion.

September 8, 2022 | Categories: Evil, Zen | Tags: | Leave a comment

No greater virtue

It is said that there is no greater evil than hatred and no greater virtue than patience. While a single moment of anger destroys countless aeons of merits and leads to unmitigated suffering in the hell realms, patience towards those who harm you and the sincere wish to bring them happiness will bring you swiftly onto the path taken by all the Buddhas.

There is no better way to deal with enemies than to feel great love for them, realizing that in former lives they have been your loving parents. There is no better way to nurture your family and look after others than to practice the Dharma and dedicate to all beings the merit you thereby obtain. There is no better or more bountiful harvest than the one you sow in the soil of your faith and endeavor so that it ripens into the richness of merit and wisdom.

– Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

from the book “The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones”

September 5, 2018 | Categories: Evil, Hatred, Patience | Leave a comment

Purity and impurity depend on oneself

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By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.

– Buddha

Dhammapada

December 16, 2017 | Categories: Evil, Purification, Zen | Leave a comment

At the Market of Nya Non

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July 21, 2017

Milarepa-listeningHow pitiful are sentient beings in samsara!

Looking upward to the Path of Liberation,

how can one feel other than sorrow for those who do harm?

How foolish and sad it is to indulge in killing,

when by karma and good fortune one has human form.

 

How sad it is to do an act that, in the end, will hurt oneself.

How sad it is to build a wicked wall of meat,

made of one’s dying parents flesh?

 

How sad it is to see meat eaten and blood flowing!

How sad it is to know confusion and delusion fill the minds of men.

 

How sad it is to find but vice, not love, in people’s hearts.

How sad it is to see that blindness veils all beings

who cherish their vile deeds.

—Milarepa, at the market of Nya Non

July 21, 2017 | Categories: Compassion, Evil, Samsara, Tibetan Buddhism | Leave a comment