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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 29th December
FOUR GIFTS
I come to you with four gifts.
The first gift is a lotus-flower.
Do you understand?
My second gift is a golden net.
Can you recognize it?
My third gift is a shepherds’ round-dance.
Do your feet know how to dance?
My fourth gift is a garden planted in a wilderness.
Could you work there?
I come to you with four gifts.
Dare you accept them?
from Sangharakshita Complete Works – volume 25: ‘Poems and Short Stories’ p. 335
Sangharakshita quote for week commencing Monday 22nd December
The quest for holiness, which the study of the Dharma subserves, is a quest for spiritual wholeness, for complete integration of the ‘personality’ not with any subjective principle merely, but with Reality.
from Sangharakshita Complete Works – volume 26: ‘Aphorisms, the Arts, and Late Writings’ p. 44
Sangharakshita quote for week commencing Monday 15th December
Without the idea – without the vision – of the New Society our Movement loses its cutting edge.[…] Without the idea of the New Society – without the idea of transforming world as well as self – our Going for Refuge is in danger of becoming an individualistic affair and, to that extent, in danger of being not truly a Going for Refuge at all.
from Sangharakshita Complete Works – volume 2: ‘The Three Jewels I’ p. 516
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