Archive for January, 2012

67 years ago, the Russian soldiers opened the gates of hell in which they were thrown and horribly killed innocent children, women, elderly, in few words, millions innocent souls.
The monster of Nazi-fascism and of “racial” exterminations was born from the disgusting embrace of profound ignorance and fierce hatred, and prospered powered by millions of eyes, minds and hearts of cold indifference.
Indifference and inaction to horrors is the worst horror.
Lest we forget. Never.
Dino Olivieri

平-ping-pace-peace

The character is decomposed into parts:

干 [gān, means void, dry, calm]
丷 [han, means to be, to do]

The oriental meaning of PING is “be quiet”.
Calm doesn’t mean to be static, synonymous of death in Eastern philosophy, but firmly riding the changes.

What you need:

• an open space or a closed space immersed in silence and tranquility
• a small rigid pillow or a zafu (a circular rigid pillow right for meditation), alternatively a a straight-backed chair
  

  Zafu (座蒲 in Japanese or 蒲团 in Chinese)

• comfortable clothing and if possible in natural fibers
• take off your shoes and (if not too cold) socks

At this point you can start with Increased Zazen Meditation:
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What you would use to extinguish a stake? Water or more fire?
Thus, it is only love that can extinguish hatred.
(Dino Olivieri)

383. Stop the stream valiantly, drive away the desires, O Brahmana!
When you have understood the destruction of all that was made, you
will understand that which was not made.

384. If the Brahmana has reached the other shore in both laws (in
restraint and contemplation), all bonds vanish from him who has
obtained knowledge.
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360. Restraint in the eye is good, good is restraint in the ear, in
the nose restraint is good, good is restraint in the tongue.

361. In the body restraint is good, good is restraint in speech, in
thought restraint is good, good is restraint in all things. A
Bhikshu, restrained in all things, is freed from all pain.

362. He who controls his hand, he who controls his feet, he who
controls his speech, he who is well controlled, he who delights
inwardly, who is collected, who is solitary and content, him they call
Bhikshu.
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Download Dhammapada EBook - web resolution

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Italian version of the Dhammapada, a famous collection of phrases and teachings of the Buddha with a brief introduction by Dino Olivieri.

The EBOOK is a public domain, free and ready to download in PDF format.

Click on the covers on the right you can download the “light” version of the medium resolution ‘can be downloaded free EBook .

Alternatively you can click and download the high-resolution version ready to be printed.

I hope that this small, old book, can accompany you in your “right way” of inner growth.

A big hug to all!
Dino Olivieri

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Do not dwell in the past.
Do not dream of the future.
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

334. The thirst of a thoughtless man grows like a creeper; he runs
from life to life, like a monkey seeking fruit in the forest.

335. Whomsoever this fierce thirst overcomes, full of poison, in this
world, his sufferings increase like the abounding Birana grass.

336. He who overcomes this fierce thirst, difficult to be conquered in
this world, sufferings fall off from him, like water-drops from a
lotus leaf.

337. This salutary word I tell you, `Do ye, as many as are here
assembled, dig up the root of thirst, as he who wants the sweet-
scented Usira root must dig up the Birana grass, that Mara (the
tempter) may not crush you again and again, as the stream crushes the
reeds.’
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Well versed in the Buddha way,
I go the non-Way
Without abandoning my
Ordinary person’s affairs.

The conditioned and
Name-and-form,
All are flowers in the sky.

Nameless and formless,
I leave birth-and-death.

Layman P’ang (740-808)