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Por alguns anos usei um cliente de email que me permitia adicionar uma citação aleatória ao final de cada correspondência. Essa prática nos remete às BBSs, onde programas como o Blue Wave tinham várias opções para acumular "taglines", que como frases de caminhão se agrupavam ao fim de cada mensagem. Muitas pessoas, porém, desconhecendo a natureza aleatória e mecânica da escolha, pensavam que os ditos se aplicavam a eles, e que haveriam sido escolhidos por mim como alguma espécie de moral que eu estava pregando junto com a resposta. Dessa forma apliquei a esses cookies/taglines o título "conselho para mim mesmo" — imitando o famoso poema de Patrul Rinpoche. Aqui estão todos eles. Com o tempo adicionarei mais algumas citações que tenho colecionado.

"Primeiro as preliminares."

"Considere todos os dharmas como sonhos."

"Budismo é pior que lei de Murphy: mesmo quando dá tudo certo há insatisfação."

"Durma 8 ou 9 horas por dia."

"Estabeleça prioridades de acordo com a perfeição da sabedoria."

"Se o mérito é uma ilusão, porque não é abundante no outono?" Larry, Madhyamikavatara em São Francisco, DJKR

"Abandone álcool, drogas, pornografia, televisão, videogames, refrigerantes e comidas venenosas."

"Coma menos."

"Não beba refrigerantes."

"Ao ver um grande M amarelo, apenas lembre o dharma."

"Não desvie o olhar."

"Dê esmolas."

"Que tal 100 prostrações agora?"

"Abandone esperança e medo, otimismo e pessimismo."

"Consuma menos".

"Não se envolva com as críticas e os elogios: ignore-os completamente."

"Dê sempre a vitória ao oponente."

"Examine a natureza da consciência inata."

"Permita que mesmo o antídoto se libere."

"No pós-meditação, seja filho da ilusão."

"Quando o mundo está cheio de maldade, transforme todas as adversidades no caminho de bodhi."

"Ver a confusão como os quatro kayas é a proteção da shunyata."

"Abrir a boca é cair em contradição." Jigme Lingpa

"Incorpore à meditação tudo o que você encontrar inesperadamente."

"Seja grato a todos."

"Todo o dharma converge para um único ponto."

"Mantenha sempre uma mente alegre."

"Se puder praticar mesmo distraído, você estará bem treinado."

"Mude sua atitude, mas permaneça natural."

"Apenas lembre o lama."

"Um conhecedor não deve permanecer nem mesmo no meio." Arya Nagarjuna

"Absoluto é além dos extremos, relativo é ilusão."

"A mente que não entende é o Buda. Não há outra."

"Cavalgue seu cavalo na lâmina da espada; se esconda entre as chamas."

"Não interessa quantos anos você faça zazen, você nunca se tornará algo especial."

"A esperança e o medo não fazem mudar as estações."

"Como você age quando está sozinho afeta toda da sua vida."

"O Arhat renuncia ao samsara, o Bodisatva renuncia ao samsara e ao nirvana."

"Venda sua esperteza e compre perplexidade." Rumi

"Que o mundo esteja aí, isto é o místico." Wittgenstein

"A vida é uma situação engraçada, mas não está tirando sarro de nós." Trungpa Rinpoche

"Vale a pena saltar para descobrir o que vai acontecer." Trungpa Rinpoche

"Você precisa ser a mudança que quer ver no mundo." Mahatma Gandhi

"As coisas não são o que parecem ser, nem são qualquer outra coisa."

"Não pense nas falhas dos outros."

"Trabalhe primeiro com as maiores imperfeições."

"Devemos aumentar o amor e a compaixão, e evitarmos ter raiva."

"Abandone qualquer expectativa de resultado."

"Renuncie aos alimentos venenosos."

"Não seja tão previsível."

"Não leve as coisas a um ponto doloroso."

"Melhore seu inglês e estude línguas asiáticas em que o dharma tenha sido muito ensinado."

"Apenas nada fazendo você fará tudo que há para ser feito."

"Não transfira a carga do boi para a vaca."

"Apenas lembre o lama."

"Não fale mal dos outros."

"Não tente ser o melhor, e não seja o pior."

"Não tente ser o mais rápido."

"Não aja ardilosamente."

"Não transforme deuses em demônios."

"Não procure fazer da dor alheia as pernas de sua própria felicidade."

"Sempre medite sobre tudo que provoca ressentimento."

"Não dependa das circunstâncias externas."

"Não interprete incorretamente."

"Não vacile."

"Pratique com determinação."

"Libere-se por meio do exame e da análise."

"Não chafurde na autocomiseração."

"Não seja invejoso."

"Não seja frívolo."

"Não espere aplauso."

"A essência do destemor é abandonar a auto-ilusão."

"As pessoas difíceis são os melhores professores."

"Inspire, expire. Elimine a dúvida, lembre que não há existência inerente."

"Quando a ignorância enevoar a mente, gargalhe muito alto."

"Quando a mente divagar, lembre de estar além de esperança ou medo."

"Não se atenha a ideias de ausência, unidade, dualidade ou multiplicidade."

"Não há necessidade de alterar o que quer que seja."

"Tudo já está completo como é."

"Pratique diligentemente, agora é a hora." Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"Uh oh! Não durmas agora, ser afortunado." Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"De tempos sem princípio até agora tens dormido em ignorância. Agora é o momento de deixar o sono para trás e alcançar a virtude, com corpo, fala e mente." Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"Não te lembras da doença, velhice e morte? Todo sofrimento além da conta e além da medida? Esqueceste?" Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"Quem sabe se terás o dia inteiro?" Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"Agora é o momento de praticar com diligência. Ainda tens esta oportunidade de gerar benefício duradouro, então, por que desperdiçá-la por preguiça?" Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"Se realmente contemplares a impermanência, consumarás a tua prática rapidamente. Quando a hora da tua morte chegar, estarás confiante." Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"Com a tua prática consumada, não terás nenhum arrependimento. Sem esta confiança, qual terá sido o propósito da tua vida?" Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"Agora é o momento de alcançares a realização que é sem sinais." Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"'Hoje não morrerei', esta certeza não temos." Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"Se você se olha no espelho e não é capaz de rir de si mesmo, procure ajuda." Lama Samten

"O cão persegue o pneu, mas o carro para inesperado, eis a face do Buda." Lama Samten

"Pratique como um sapo salta de volta para o lago."

"80% é perfeito."

"As vezes nada funciona, e o fim é certo, mas a liberdade primordial sempre segue intacta."

"Isto é um sonho."

"Acorde!"

"Faça da internet um reino puro."

 

"First, the preliminaries."

"Regard all dharmas as dreams."

"Make priorities according to the perfection of wisdom."

"If merit is an illusion, why it is not abundant at fall?". Larry, Madhyamikavatara San Francisco, DJKR

"Let's give the chicks a thrill!" Lama Rigdzing, taking of his shirt

"Abandon alcohol, drugs, pornography, television, videogames, industrialized soft drinks and poisonous foods."

"Eat less."

"Don't drink coca-cola."

"Don't go to McDonalds (or Burger King)."

"If a big yellow M appears, just remember the dharma."

"Consume less".

"Do not look away."

"Give alms."

"How about 100 prostrations now?"

"Abandon hope and fear, optimism and pessimism."

"Do not get involved with criticism and flattering: ignore them completely."

"Let the opponent win."

"Examine the nature of intrinsic consciousness."

"Allow for the antidote to liberate itself."

"In post-meditation, be a child of illusion."

"When the world is filled with evil, turn all adversity into the path of the Buddha."

"Be grateful to all."

"Regarding confusion as the four kayas is the protection of shunyata."

"Just open your mouth and you will fall in contradiction." Jigme Lingpa

"Mingle meditation with everything unexpected."

"All dharma converges to a single point."

"Always stay with a happy mind."

"If you can practice even while distracted, then you are liberated."

"Change your attitude, but remain natural."

"Don't think about other people's faults."

"Work first with the biggest imperfections."

"We should always increase love and compassion and avoid anger."

"Abandon all expectations of result."

"Renounce poisonous food."

"Don't be so predictable."

"Don't criticize others."

"Don't take things to a painful pont."

"Learn languages in which the dharma has been extensively taught".

"Only by doing nothing will you do all there is to be done."

"Just remember the lama."

"Just don't know."

"Vision as the sky, discernment as the grain of flour." Guru Rinpoche

"Let phenomena play". Trungpa Rinpoche

"Let phenomena play fool of themselves." Trungpa Rinpoche

"Don't try to be the best, and don't be the worst."

"Don't try to be the fastest."

"Don't act through machinations".

"Don't transform gods in demons."

"Keep going." Chagdud Rinpoche

"Today, certainly, we whole day has, not know." Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there—fully, personally, genuinely."

"'Today we not die', this certainty not have." Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"Practice diligently—now is the time." Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"Only this times opportunity you now have, long last benefit doing virtue." Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"This opportunity times, you why lazy and why waste?" Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"You really think, contemplation, impermanent, then you do practice and quickly accomplishes. What time death comes, this time you confident: 'death?' - this O.K. thinks.This kind confident not has, then your life what purpose?" Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

"The big mind doesn't mind." Lama Tsering Everest

"Sometimes nothing works, and the end is certain, but primordial freedom always remains untouched."

"This is a dream."

"80% is perfect."

"Wake up!"

"Make the Internet a virtual pure land."

"Just remember the lama."

"Things are not what they seem to be, nor are they anything else."

"A learned one must not even remain in the middle." Arya Nagarjuna

"Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life."

"Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management."

"Absolute is beyond extremes, relative is an illusion."

"When you're deluded, every statement is an ulcer; when you're enlightened, every word is wisdom."

"The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other."

"No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself."

"Inside the zendo also dancing evening maple leaves."

"Ride your horse along the edge of a sword; hide yourself in the middle of flames."

"All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own liberation with diligence."

"No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special."

"Hope and fear cannot alter the season."

"The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness."

"How you act when you're alone affects the rest of your life."

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." Rumi

"That the world is, is the mystical." Wittgenstein

"Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it and give birth to it." Meister Eckart

"Life is a humorous situation, but it is not mocking us." Trungpa Rinpoche

"It is worthwhile jumping to find out what will happen." Trungpa Rinpoche

"In working with ourselves, cleaning up begins by telling the truth. We have to shed any hesitation about being honest with ourselves because it might be unpleasant." Trungpa Rinpoche

"For the true warrior, there is no warfare. This is the idea of being all-victorious. When you are all-victorious, there is nothing to conquer, no fundamental problem or obstacle to overcome." Trungpa Rinpoche

"Success or failure.....are regarded neither as punishment nor as congratulation. You trust, not in success, but in reality... You can always go beyond the result; it is the seed for a further journey." Trungpa Rinpoche

"For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful." Trungpa Rinpoche

"There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real is taking place in everything." Trungpa Rinpoche

"The world is very interesting wherever you go, wherever you look." Trungpa Rinpoche

"This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us whevever we are." Pema Chodron

"The interesting question is — what happens next?" Pema Chodron

"Learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal. Pema Chodron

"To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes." Pema Chodron

"Use what seems like poison as medicine. We can use our personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings." Pema Chodron

"Mind. Mind is nothing. Mind is luminous." Buddha

"What truly heals is gratitude and tenderness." Pema Chodron

"In meditation you take an unbiased approach. You let things be as they are, without judgment, and in that way you yourself learn to be." Trungpa Rinpoche

"It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical." Trungpa Rinpoche

"Approach what you find repulsive, help the ones you think you cannot help, and go to places that scare you." Machig Labdron

"Things get very clear when you're cornered." Trungpa Rinpoche

"Become as resourceful in inspiring yourself to enter your own peace as you are at being neurotic and competitive in the world." Sogyal Rinpoche

"Be alert for any sign of beauty and grace." Sogyal Rinpoche

"To embody the transcendent is why we are here." Sogyal Rinpoche

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

"Anything anyone does anywhere affects everything everywhere. Think about this."

"There is no situation, however seemingly hopeless or terrible,......which we cannot use to evolve. And there is no crime or cruelty that sincere regret and real spiritual practice cannot purify." Sogyal Rinpoche

"The stronger and greater your compassion, the stronger and greater your fearlessness and confidence." Sogyal Rinpoche

"Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others." Shantideva

"Like it or not, if you look at your own mind you will discover it is void and groundless; as insubstantial as empty space." Guru Rinpoche

"The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening." Nagarjuna

"Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love." Nagarjuna

"All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things." Nagarjuna

"My religion is to live and die without regret." Milarepa

"Know emptiness, be compassionate." Milarepa

"Do not speak unless it improves on silence."

"Parting is such a sweet sorrow". Shakespeare

"Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara." Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

"The victorious ones say that emptiness undermines all dogmatic views.Those who take a dogmatic view of emptiness are said to be incurable." Nagarjuna

"Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves." Nagarjyna

"So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts." Nagarjuna

"The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting should not be the cause of misery." Nagarjuna

"If you desire ease, forsake learning." Nagarjuna

"The relative is stated to be emptiness, and emptiness itself is but the relative. Without the first, the second is not present, just as with creation and impermanence." Nagarjuna

"Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise." Nagarjuna

"There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still." Nagarjuna

"What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, the buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them." Shantideva

"If I do not exchange my happiness for the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of buddhahood and even in samsara I shall have no real joy." Shantideva

"For as long as space exists and sentient beings endure, may I too remain, to dispel the misery of the world." Shantideva

"Whoever wishes to quickly afford protection to both himself and others should practice that holy secret: the exchanging of self for others." Shantideva

"The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana." Bassui

"Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it." Chogyam Trungpa

"Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?" Milarepa

"Through the power of habit I have come to view an insignificant sperm and egg as myself." Shantideva

"All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy. All misery comes from the desire for oneself to be happy." Shantideva

"Ask NOT what your sangha can do for you—ask what you can do for your sangha."