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I once heard a story about a visit to heaven and hell. In both places the visitor saw many people seated at a table on which many delicious foods were laid out. In both places chopsticks over a meter long were tied to their right hands, while their left hands were tied to their chairs. In hell, however much they stretched out their arms, the chopsticks were too long for them to get food into their mouths. They grew impatient and got their hands and chopsticks tangled with one another's. The delicacies were scattered here and there. In heaven, on the other hand, people happily used the long chopsticks to pick out someone else's favorite food and feed it to him, and in turn they were being fed by others. They all enjoyed their meal in harmony.
--Shundo Aoyama
[A]ll manifestations (consist in) Mind, and Mind is the Illuminating-
Voidness without any shadow or impediment.
-Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
Who ranks as the highest? One who does not harm anything. One who never retaliates. One who is always at peace regardless of the other person's disposition.
- The Buddha
If you do something good, enjoy it, repeat it, and allow it to become a way of life.
~Bad Conduct, v118
Practice with the bodhisattva attitude every day. People can't see your mind; what people see is a manifestation of your attitude in your actions of body and speech. So pay attention to your attitude all the time. Guard it as if you are the police, or like a parent cares for a child, like a bodyguard, or as if you are the guru and your mind is your disciple.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
--Shundo Aoyama
[A]ll manifestations (consist in) Mind, and Mind is the Illuminating-
Voidness without any shadow or impediment.
-Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
Who ranks as the highest? One who does not harm anything. One who never retaliates. One who is always at peace regardless of the other person's disposition.
- The Buddha
If you do something good, enjoy it, repeat it, and allow it to become a way of life.
~Bad Conduct, v118
Practice with the bodhisattva attitude every day. People can't see your mind; what people see is a manifestation of your attitude in your actions of body and speech. So pay attention to your attitude all the time. Guard it as if you are the police, or like a parent cares for a child, like a bodyguard, or as if you are the guru and your mind is your disciple.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche