One day a Vinaya master asked a Zen master:
-How should one practice Tao?
The Zen master replied:
-Eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are tired.
The Vinaya master said:
-Most people do that.
The Zen master...
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Quote: "In Gratitude... To Accept things as it is To Honor the best qualities To Enlighten the imperfections To Flower into love and compassion" .........
Just sharing , sorry in advance . In human culture of all races ...saying "thank you" is a gesture of respect , polilteness and is accepted as a great action .........But in my current understanding of Buddhism , one need to say it all moment of his life , each moment as he lives because all beings is providing him knowledge , understanding , factor of realization , experiences to un-cover , discover himself ........so not limited to any special action but is a emotion .
In Buddhism one will feel the need , without anger even to the killer of his love one because he provided a chance to discover his emotions towards his love love and the killer .............all beings regardless their action is providing us a lesson to discover ourselves and being a teacher to us ................................thank you . BUT in my current condition with full of emotion / polluted energy , I will certainly kill the killer of my love one ...I still need to learn , thank you for teaching me.