Crystal Quintero, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Dhammapada
(Bob Proctor) Meditation exercise "Shift Your Paradigm" with Hemi-Sync "The Return."
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| The Buddha, Rubin Museum (Andy Romanoff) |
The Buddha says an amazing thing in the Imprint or Path of the Dharma. Mind (heart) is the forerunner of all conditions. They are mind-made.
If, on the one hand, we think and act with a pure [free of greed, hatred/fear, delusion and instead motivated by the wide categories of nongreed, nonaversion, nondelusion] mind, happiness follows us like a shadow, which is easy to carry no matter how long or wide it grows.
But if, on the other hand, we think or act with an impure mind, sorrow drags behind us like a laden cart that is hard to bear and constantly growing heavier.
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| Most people will never know what mind is capable of. Find out (MonroeInstitute.org) |
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1. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is
their chief; they are all mind-made. If with an impure mind a person
speaks or acts suffering follows behind like the wheel that follows the
foot of the ox.
2. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is
their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person
speaks or acts happiness follows behind like a never-departing shadow. More
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