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Dit jaar staan we stil bij de 100-ste geboortedag van Urgyen Sangharakshita, onze leraar en grondlegger van Triratna. Op deze pagina vind je van alles wat hiermee te maken heeft.
Elke week een nieuwe quote…
Sangharakshita quote for week commencing Monday 1st December
Buddhism, properly and deeply understood, and thoroughly and extensively applied, is revolutionary. It is revolutionary, that is to say, within the context of the established order. It is in this realization that our breakthrough consists: in the realization of the fact that Buddhism has to transform every aspect of our lives and be not just something that we theoretically understand, not just a little hobby with which we occupy ourselves once or twice a week, but the transforming agent, the transforming influence – the catalyst, if you like – of our lives.
from Sangharakshita Complete Works – volume 26: ‘Aphorisms, the Arts, and Late Writings’ p. 20
Sangharakshita quote for week commencing Monday 24th November
This is what the Buddha was getting at in his last words, ‘appamādena sampādetha’, which can be translated ‘with mindfulness, strive’. To reach the point of irreversibility one has to go on making an effort – including the effort to be mindful and aware enough to ensure that the conditions one lives in are conducive to one’s making the best effort one possibly can. One can make a great deal of effort, but if it does not include an effort to create more favourable conditions, one is almost wasting one’s energy. On the other hand, one can be in the most favourable conditions imaginable, but if one is not making an effort, what use are those conditions? Both are necessary.
from Sangharakshita Complete Works – volume 6: ‘The Essential Sangharakshita’ p. 589
Sangharakshita quote for week commencing Monday 17th November
The good is very often the enemy of the best.
from Sangharakshita Complete Works – volume 26: ‘Aphorisms, the Arts, and Late Writings’ p. 36
Sangharakshita quote for week commencing Monday 10th November
Rather than any division between a thing called matter and a thing called mind, or a thing called body and a thing called consciousness, there is a continuity running all the way through, a continuity of our awareness patterned in different ways. If we can really understand this, those inner and outer worlds become interfused in a deeper, more meaningful vision of what it is to be alive.
from Sangharakshita Complete Works – volume 15: ‘Pali Canon Teachings and Translations’ p. 138
Sangharakshita quote for week commencing Monday 3rd November – for Sangha Day (5th November)
Where there is trust, explanations are unnecessary.
Where there is no trust, explanations are useless.
from Sangharakshita Complete Works – volume 26: ‘Aphorisms, the Arts, and Late Writings’ p. 81
Jamie Cresswell: What in your life has given you most joy?
Sangharakshita: When I was in India working with the new Buddhists I sometimes asked people what difference Buddhism had made. Their faces would light up, and they would say, ‘Now I feel free’. That gave me great joy. It’s the same in principle in the West, although the conditions are different.
What gives me most joy now is getting letters from people telling me what a difference the Dharma has made to their lives, especially when I know what a dreadful life they had before. I then think my life has been to some extent worthwhile.
JC: And how would you like to be remembered after you die?
S: I haven’t really thought about that.
JC: Well, now’s the time…
S: I would like to be remembered as someone who did something for the ex-Untouchables, because I did feel very strongly for them. And I would like to be remembered as someone who did something to help bring the Dharma to the West.
Interview with Jamie Cresswell from Dharmalife, issue 13, summer 2000 p38