Posts Tagged ‘Suffering’

“Immersed in clear waters,
we suffer thirst”
Dino Olivieri

With the first step i feel compassion for all living things.

Moving the second step i don’t cause more harm or damage to the universe.

Performing the third step i am free from the three poisons of the mind: illusion, desire and anger.

On the fourth step i begin to better discern what is truly right and what is really wrong.

The fifth step will teach me that every dichotomy is false and empty. Good and evil, the self and the outside world, the white and black, are all abstractions of the mind.

Moving the sixth step I forget greed and envy and i behave always with generosity, sense of justice and positive creativity.

With the seventh step i forget selfishness, pride and false humility to act with honor and true perennial generosity.

The eighth step will teach me that happiness is the maintenance of a dynamic equilibrium, with loving detachment.

The ninth step will teach me to fight against personal pain with non-attachment and to alleviate the suffering of others with a deep sincere and disinterested love.

With the tenth step I return to the whole, to revive again on the road to perfection, a path with no beginning and no end.
So i start to walk another path made of ten steps, always improving, to reach here, in the eternal everchanging present, the enlightment.

(Free adaptation of the “Vote of the 10 steps” of the followers of Ch’an Tao Chia)

One day a young man asked to an old wise man which was the key to happiness.
The old man smiled, the wrinkles on his face corrugated for a lot of fun. Then he looked into the eyes of the young man, and he said: “The Gratitude, my son”.
The young man did not understand and so he asked, “Gratitude?”
“Sure”, the old man said, adding: “If you are not able to feel deep gratitude for every little precious gift that the universe makes you constantly, you will live only in the pain and suffering and you can never know happiness”.
The old man stood still a moment in silence and then said: “There is no awareness without gratitude, because it is not only a thought but also a feeling”.
The young man found enlightenment in those words. He embraced the old wise man and so he said: “Thank You”.

We are the Whole

Everyone suffers.
We suffer because of our attachment to things, ideas and material goods that have nothing to do with our true essence.

Only the awareness of the whole can give us true happiness.
Only the universal love that flows from it can give real peace of mind.

Everything you own is a burden, it is useful if you still live it with detachment.
All the money you have is an illusion of value, because nothing has more value than awareness and enlightenment.

In front of human wickedness, violence, hatred, anger, ignorance, desire, envy and every negative feeling and emotion that dwells within you and around you, look at yourself and at the world with detachment and compassion.

Watch with compassionate detachment that everything is impermanent: your home, your things, your enemy, hatred and your own suffering.

Spread love, understanding, joy, warmth and positive feelings to sow the power of a Buddha in every human soul.

So lose the attachment to harmful and unnecessary things for your journey to enlightenment of a Buddha.

Dino Olivieri

”You can rejoice of the beauty of the people and things only without the desire and possession. Every real beauty is transitional and attachment to it is a source of secure suffering.”
Dino Olivieri