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BSPG News and Meeting (No. 153)
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Edited by Stony Brook Buddhism Study and Practice Group

Meeting
SAC 308
7pm, Thursday, 10/18/01
PLEASE BE ON TIME
 

Words from the Suttas/Sutras
"Offspring of Buddha, great enlightening beings have ten kinds of reliance. They take the determination for enlightenment as a reliance, as they never forget it. They take spiritual friends as a reliance, harmonizing as one. They take roots of goodness as a reliance, cultivating, gathering, and increasing them. They take the transcendent ways as a reliance, fully practicing them. They take all truths as a reliance, as they ultimately end in emancipation. They take great vows as a reliance, as they enhance enlightenment. They take practices as a reliance, consummating them all. They take all enlightening beings as a reliance because they have the same one wisdom. They take honoring the buddhas as a reliance because their faith is purified. They take all buddhas as a reliance because they teach ceaselessly  like benevolent parents. These are the ten: if enlightening beings rest in these principles, they can become abodes of the unexcelled great knowledge of buddhas."--The Avatamsaka Sutra, "Detachment from the World"
 

Quote of the Week
"You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important."
 

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