buddhavacana for meditation

Develop the meditation that is like water, for in so doing, pleasant and unpleasant sensory impressions that have arisen and taken hold of the mind will not persist.  Just as people wash away faeces and urine, spittle, pus and blood, and yet the water is not troubled, worried or disgusted, even so, develop the meditation that is like water.
-- M.I,423

What people expect to happen
Is often different from what actually happens.
Thus does disappointment arise.
This is the way the world works.
-- Sn.588

Suppose an enemy has hurt you.
That is his business.
Why should you annoy yourself
And hurt your mind, which is your business?

In tears you left your family,
They who were so kind and helpful.
So why not leave behind your enemy
And the anger that brings so much harm?

This anger which you embrace
Eats away at the very roots
Of all the virtues you strive to develop.
Who would be such a fool?

Someone else does evil deeds
And you get angry.  But why?
Do you wish to copy him
And act as he does?

Suppose to annoy someone,
Provokes you to do something evil.
Why allow anger to arise and thereby
Do exactly what he wants you to do?

If you get angry
Then maybe he will suffer, maybe not.
But by being angry yourself
You certainly will suffer.

If enemies blinded by anger
Are content to walk the path of woe,
Why should you follow them
By getting angry yourself?

If a foe provokes you
To hurt yourself by getting angry,
Let that anger subside.
Do not harm yourself needlessly.
-- Vism.300*


“He abused me, he hit me,
He oppressed me, he robbed me.”
Those who hold on to such thoughts
Never still their hatred.

“He abused me, he hit me,
He oppressed me, he robbed me.”
Those who do not hold such thoughts
Soon still their hatred.

For in this world,
Hatred is never appeased by more hatred;
It is love that conquers hatred.
This is an eternal law.
-- Dhp.3-5


Look not to faults of others,
To their omissions and commissions.
But rather look to your own acts,
To what you have done or left undone.

When one looks at another's faults,
And is always full of envy,
One's defilements continually grow;
Far are they from their destruction.

If only you would do what you teach others,
Then, being yourself controlled,
You could control others well.
Truly, self-control is difficult.

You yourself must watch yourself.
You yourself must examine yourself,
And so, self-guarded and mindful,
O monk, you will live in happiness.
-- Dhp.50,253,159,379



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