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Ta Prohm TEMPLE ...
Rebuilding of the Temple 12 the end of the 13th century continued until the century. The most interesting thing in this temple temples. A very special temple. Purpose other temples in this temple, is no different from the architectural and artistic. Single trees are different here. This makes it a very special temple.
Trees gave it an air of mystical and mysterious temple. As soon as the temple, the temple, make sure that the sight of trees şaşkınlığımızdan mouths wide open, as our eyes dart bakakalıyoruz slots. Nidasından marvel at our mouth is not doing anything else. I know the root of the trees grown in the soil and soil emit. The trees, is not the case at all. Rooted and grew up on the buildings down. They are not shrub-like tree, they are very, very big and big ones. If the roots of other booze. Such clusters are not fringe. These massive roots.
Buildings, such as the roots of trees have committed to one vote. Give a stunning picture. Where bulmuşlarsa entered a crack, a crack where have they arrived. The same as a needle and embroidery work. I used embroidery done on the pulleys. Here, too, hoop buildings, trees, roots, and this gives life to shape and embroidery yarns. Here once more we see that the nature of a larger artisans.
There are two types of vegetation in the area. One of them is huge and with a high silk cotton tree called trees. The other is smaller and emerging green leaves clinging to the walls, and the fig tree is a kind of gray roots. Green, gray and brown tie exceptional worth a visit. In addition to being as beautiful as the landscape startles us, how much you believe in inspiring author and filmmaker. This place is a place that encourages people to paint the canvas to come up with. Most of the line can be seen in the movies, and only think of as a temple of dreams. Sight of the fact that entering the shock. Of course, this shock is not lethal. Exhilarating.
Come out of the shock, it starts to look better ourselves, to come around, the trees, with roots that support the walls of the temple are hundreds of years old, but also may lead to the collapse of the walls for cracks comment on the expansion of the companies are doing with their roots. Some of the trees because of the storms could harm the buildings fell on them, seeing some of the sights we understand this situation. This is the only temple in view of the trees, the other did not find the temples. This is often found in a forest in the same area and the same in all the temples of the trees should grow up thinking the same way.
To avoid damage to trees, temples and other temples are cleaned by the end, we learn only as an example of this temple are locked. Good thing too. For centuries, wars, talanlara, these works of art were destroyed and resisting yıkılmalara nature, rain, floods, storms and putting it against the damage caused by trees have survived to this day. Happily survived. Or humanity, humanity does not see this magnificent work.
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Religious Thought 211
Whatever we see or think about is the manifestation of the Mother, of the Primordial Energy, the Primal Consciousness. Creation, preservation, and destruction, living beings and the universe, and further, meditation and the meditator, bhakti [devotion] and prema [divine love] all these are manifestations of the glory of that Power.
- Ramakrishna
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He whose senses are steadied like stallions well-trained by the charioteer, his conceit abandoned, free of effluent, Such: even devas adore him. Like the earth, he doesn't react-- cultured, Such, like Indra's pillar, like a lake free of mud. For him --Such-- there's no traveling on.
- Dhammapada 7, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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Religious Thought 210
"When a person is sleeping soundly, free from dreams, with a still mind, that is the Self, fearless and deathless. That is Brahman, the supreme."
- Chandogya Upanishad
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Life has no whence; it is carrying forth, and carrying forth again. Death has no whither; it is carrying away; and carrying away again. Ultimately how is it? If the mind does not differ, myriad things are one suchness.
- Dgen, "Rational Zen"
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Religious Thought 209
Whatever takes form is false. Only the formless endures. When you understand The truth of this teaching, You will not be born again. For God is infinite, Within the body and without, Like a mirror, And the image in a mirror. As the air is everywhere, Flowing around a pot And filling it, So God is everywhere, Filling all things And flowing through them forever.
- Ashtavakra Gita 1: 18-20
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Do not underestimate your ability.
- Geshe Chekawa, in Advice From a Spiritual Friend
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Religious Thought 208
It is not those who lack energy or refrain from action, but those who work without expectation of reward who attain the goal of meditation. Theirs is true renunciation.
- Bhagavad Gita 6:1
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Hence, the purpose of the Holy Life does not consist in acquiring alms, honor, or fame, nor in gaining morality, concentration, or the eye of knowledge. That unshakable deliverance of the heart: that, indeed, is the object of Holy Life, that is its essence, that is its goal.
- Samyutta Nikaya, translated by Nyanatiloka
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Religious Thought 207
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents, and I lay them both at His feet.
- Mohandas Gandhi
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Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away, Before sorrow befalls you. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, And you will be filled with joy.
- Dhammapada 117-118
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Religious Thought 206
There are ignorant people who speak flowery words and take delight in the letter of the law, saying there is nothing else. Their hearts are full of selfish desires, Arjuna. Their idea of heaven is their own enjoyment, and the aim of all their activities is pleasure and power. The fruit of their actions is continual rebirth. Those whose minds are swept away by the pursuit of pleasure and power are incapable of following the supreme goal and will not attain samadhi.
- Bhagavad Gita 2:42-44
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And what, monks, is Right View? It is, monks, the knowledge of suffering, the knowledge of the origin of suffering, the knowledge of the cessation of suffering, and the knowledge of the way of practice leading to the cessation of suffering. This is called Right View.
- Digha Nikaya
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24 Hour Service
Needing some clothes cleaned in a hurry, a man searched the small
Georgia town in which he was visiting until he found a sign which read:
"Cleaning and Pressing, 24-Hour Service."
After explaining his needs, he said, "I'll be back for my suit tomorrow."
"Won't be ready till Saturday," replied the proprietor.
"But I thought you had 24-hour service," the customer protested.
"We do, son," the proprietor said reproachfully.
"Cleaning and Pressing, 24-Hour Service."
After explaining his needs, he said, "I'll be back for my suit tomorrow."
"Won't be ready till Saturday," replied the proprietor.
"But I thought you had 24-hour service," the customer protested.
"We do, son," the proprietor said reproachfully.
"But we only work eight hours a day. Today's Thursday - eight hours today,
eight hours Friday, eight on Saturday. That's 24-hour service."
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Religious Thought 205
Sooner or later Fortune or misfortune May befall you. When you know this, You desire nothing, You grieve for nothing. Subduing the senses, You are happy.
- Ashtavakra Gita 11:3
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Arouse your will, supreme and great, Practice love, give joy and protection; Let your giving be like space, Without discrimination or limitation. Do good things, not for your own sake But for all the beings in the universe; Save and make free everyone you encounter, Help them attain the wisdom of the way.
- Prajnaparamita
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Religious Thought 204
Arjuna, those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. Through constant effort they learn to withdraw the mind from selfish cravings and absorb it in the Self. Thus they attain the state of union.
- Bhagavad Gita 6:16-18
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As a blind man feels when he finds a pearl in a dustbin, so am I amazed by the miracles of awakening rising in my consciousness. It is the nectar of immortality that delivers us from death, the treasure that lifts us from death, the treasure that lifts us above poverty into the wealth of giving to life, the tree that gives shade to us when we roam about scorched by life, the bridge that takes us across the stormy river of life, the cool moon of compassion that calms our mind when it is agitated, the fun that dispels darkness, the butter made from the milk of kindness by churning it with the dharma. It is a feast of joy to which all are invited.
- adapted from the Bodhicharyavatara by Shantideva
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Religious Thought 203
Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.
- Bhagavad Gita 2:49
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The path to material gain goes one way, the way to Unbinding, another. Realizing this, the monk, a disciple to the Awakened One, should not relish offerings, should cultivate seclusion instead.
- Dhammapada, 5, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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