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November 10, 2004
surrender your impressions
We plant merit with our minds, and we commit crimes with our minds. With our minds, we imprint images. This one mind is like an artist. It can draw anything, and what it draws is realized. If you surrender your impressions, ideas, thoughts, and so on at the moment they arise without imprinting them on your mind, your minds will not be tainted, just as the lotus flower is not tainted by the muddy water whence it grows.
-Jae Woong Kim, "Polishing The Diamond"
Copyright Wisdom Publications 2001. Reprinted from "Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations," edited by Josh Bartok, with permission of Wisdom Publications, 199 Elm St., Somerville MA 02144 U.S.A, www.wisdompubs.org.
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This is nice. Thanks for posting it.
Posted by: Leslee at Nov 10, 2004 9:50:18 AM
I believe children do this well until they're minds are changed by those around them. I'm with Leslee, thanks for sharing this.
Posted by: Joe at Nov 10, 2004 10:51:37 AM
