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33. As a fletcher makes straight his arrow, a wise man makes straight
his trembling and unsteady thought, which is difficult to guard,
difficult to hold back.

34. As a fish taken from his watery home and thrown on dry ground, our
thought trembles all over in order to escape the dominion of Mara (the
tempter).
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To act and to think in private in a way, and to proclaim in public the contrary, is a symptom of a serious mental illness: it is called split personality, or simply: live in a constant lie.
And as the falsehood, illusion and hypocrisy have become the most common practices in our world that only means that we are, to varying degrees, all mad, crazy and dissociated from the real world.
Think about it.
We are educated, filled up, from an early age, by a thousand streams of fetid pernicious education, to consider good and normal what for real is absolutely crazy and absurd.
We accumulate, we hate our neighbor, we grew in a culture of violence fed by a thousand fears and illusions. We continuously soaked into anger and dissatisfaction, inflate our ego of millions of stupid unreal absurd desires, ruin lives with the cancer of envy.
Unfulfilled we sink in anger and frustration, falling into the black hole of depression.
Everything is normal, perhaps?
It ’s normal a world that celebrates the possession, the power, the strength, the desire and the illusion? Or maybe that world is a thousand times more suitable to beasts than to sentient beings who likes to think themselves “intelligent” and “loving”?
I see this nightmare populated by billions of mad people, and i am one of them.
It ’s a huge effort to lift the lids in the sleep induced by heavy sedation of the mind.
It ’s a hard unspeakable, but I have to awaken.
With all my strength, I HAVE TO AWAKEN!

“Just as water cools both good and bad and washes away all impurity and dust, in the same way you should develop thoughts of love for friend and foe alike, and having reached perfection in love, you will attain enlightenment”
Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha

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

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We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.

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“To study Buddhism is to study ourselves.
To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.”
Eihei Dogen Kigen zenji (道元禅師, Dōgen Zenji) (1200 – 1253)

Bodhidarma

This Japanese scroll calligraphy of Bodhidharma reads:

直指人心
見性成佛

(from up to low, left to right)

“Zen points directly to the human mind and heart,
see into your nature and become Buddha”.

It was created by Hakuin Ekaku (1685 to 1768).

Buddha Shakyamuni

1. Dukkha, “The truth of the existential suffering”.
Inherent in human life and suffering existential: it afflicts man because impermanence of life situation that comes with it from birth and because of its birth deep in “samsara.”
This existential suffering is revealed and is perceived not only when one sees the inevitability of sickness, old age and death, but even when one is forced into contact with what one does not like such as, contacts, connections, relationships, interactions with persons, things or events that we dislike.
But not only in these cases: the existential suffering is revealed and is perceived even when you are forced to separate from what you love, like when one is deprived of visions, sounds, smells, tastes and tactile sensations desirable, pleasing, attractive, or as when one is unable to obtain contacts, connections, relationships, interactions with people, things or events are responsible for his own good, its well-being, his ease, his freedom from slavery, or finally, where one should be subjected to the forced separation mother, father, brothers, sisters or friends, classmates, family, loved.
The frustration of desires is one of the most common perceptions of “dukkha”, the so-called “existential suffering”.
More generally, the finding that it is done in the “First Noble Truth is that there is in human life suffering associated with existential impermanence of all things, the fact that everything is destined to end.

2. Samudaya: “There is a source of the existential suffering”
Existential suffering is not the fault of the world, nor of fate or a deity, neither happens by chance.
Originates within us from the pursuit of happiness in that which is transitory, driven by desire (trsna, in Pali: ‘ta’ has’ or ‘brama’) for what is not satisfactory.
It occurs in three forms of kamatrsna or ‘desire for sensual objects; bhavatrsna or’ desire to be ‘vibhavatrsna or’ desire not to be.

3. Nirodha: “There is the emancipation from existential suffering”
To experience the emancipation from suffering existential need to let go trsna, attachment to things and people, the scale of values deceptive so what is temporary and more desirable.

4. Magga (Pali) or Marga (Sanskrit): “there is a path of practice for emancipation from existential suffering”.
It is the spiritual path to be taken to move closer to Nibbana.
It is called the “Noble Eightfold Path”.