Mind Matters Most! 🐒🧘🏼♂️🧘🏼♀️
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Good afternoon Mindful Steemians,
Today I am reciting the words of the Buddha as they are as relevant today as they were 25 centuries ago if not more:
Mind precedes all phenomena,
mind matters most, everything is mind-made.
If with an impure mind
one performs any action of speech or body,
then suffering will follow that person
as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draught animal.
If with a pure mind
one performs any action of speech or body,
then happiness will follow that person
as a shadow that never departs.
In Pali (Language used at the rime of Buddha)
Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā,
manoseṭṭhā manomayā.
Manasā ce paduṭṭhena
bhāsati vā karoti vā,
tato naṃ dukkhamanveti
cakkaṃva vahato padaṃ.
Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā,
manoseṭṭhā manomayā.
Manasā ce pasannena
bhāsati vā karoti vā,
tato naṃ sukhamanveti
chāyāva anapāyinī.
Listen: http://host.pariyatti.org/dwob/dhammapada_1_1_1_2.mp3
Source: Dhammapada1.1, 1.2
http://tipitaka.org/romn/cscd/s0502m.mul0.xml#para1
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I love this comparison
It suggests that impure minds are following base desires, like a beast might satisfy hunger or othet instincts, will be weighted by burdens they themselves are dragging behind. But at the same time, we have a practice that can unchain us from this.
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Indeed
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