Sayings of Buddha, Tormod Kinnes and St. Isaac

Sayings

Buddha

Man should make himself a lot of good karma. [Buddha]

The accumulation of good work is joyful. [Buddha]

Not even death can wipe out our good deeds [Buddha]

The best weapon is wisdom. [Buddha]

The most precious treasure is virtue. [Buddha]

Attraction is wholeness. [Buddha]

Friendships are broken off by envy and selfishness. [Buddha]

Blessings enlighten the whole world. [Buddha]

On life's journey, among autumn leaves are nourishing fruits of experiences to taste and store for times to come.

Tormod Kinnes

If you don't outsmart death, you can do much less.

If there is a time for everything, as the Bible says, there is also a time for ignoring there is a time for everything. [Cf. Ecclesiastes 3:1-11]

Dentist lovers may be proficient lovers.

Common love, it looks like the hardest there is.

Being duped takes many forms.

To hope is not always to cope.

To put fervent hopes in soap may turn many guys into dopes.

Art can be very helpful. Artistic ways of expressing oneself can be fine.

The analects (dialogues) of Confucius (Kongzi) border on platitudes at times. They have had immense effects throughout history.

Self-assuredness of politicians risen into power may come as a surprise and puzzle nearly all and sundry.

What is common needs to be stalwart for the wear and tear. For what cannot last, is hardly common.

To sit and weep and regret can be a sign of having expected too much.

To convey great and likeable ideas includes a fight to reach out to pure beginners. The physicist Werner Heisenberg lets us in on on it though a side door, as it is [Cf. Thd 27, 212 ff].

It is not good enough just to be smart, but it helps.

Deep down you could be the one that is smart enough to see that the humble-looking artists can have horrible dreams.

Life as we know it, can be perpetuated by much and strong love-making. It is not too discerning. Do not be fooled away from that.

For happy and luck-giving changes, administer elegance so that what is apparently in front turns smooth and welcoming, if not calm, lovely and friendly.

To refuse bad ones entry can turn things around and make everybody in your sphere of influence benefit.

Use good time for own resources, strike precisely and go for fit boundaries that favour yourself.

Year-long, enduring environment tills human loyalty.

Awkward, succumbing faithfulness is tragic.

Some vicissitudes may tie in with one's own inclinations, and some with the inclinations of mates.

Horrors may bring a solid reputation - at least in books.

The best women should refrain, at least hesitate, to run after men in nightly, revolving terror, and read outstanding books instead.

Fallen children hardly take the trouble to help their aged parents.

After much and sound circumspection, feel free to sort basic and important facts and facets and suspect both underlying and dormant plots as you please.

Half-smart platitudes have conquered America.

Ruthless and rotten TA Games counteract the old task of having good reasons to smile throughout life.

To cope well, realise well.

Is it the wolf or the king in command of armies that has most persons killed?

Attain to a solid, good look into nature if you can.

The darling shows strength.

A touching scene needs to be appreciated.

Inner clarity can illumine.

Keep strong happiness inside your own family.

Be allied with the best to be found. Don't just preserve the best, but learn to make use of the best for handy, practical ends: It stands to reason.

We should look after our children very well if we can.

A true master will not deceive an able servant.

Doing well in time shows strength.

Think "well-well" to fit in and avoid drudgery.

Is mere faith - as little deviant as possible - a way?

Hardships met with can be a yardstick of the strength of one's belief.

Thoughts and theories can be put in different languages.

Solid inner strength is needed to back up splendid thoughts.

If interpreted maturely, many things can make sense.

Wisdom often looks a bit beneath the surface and surmises.

Imposed humility seldom comes right.

Truth and not master humbug is needed.

A creep promises a lot without meaning to keep it.

Try to link up to a decent, truth-telling source: much savoury in a life depends on it.

The phrase-rattling nervous followers could have been "set apart" to do so.

Heed the ancient Greek norm of sound measures, including the variant "Too much of a good thing is a bad thing."

Skilled questioning and inspections may be crucial for scientific candour and quest.

The more we invest in an authoritarian society, the more robbed we tend to get of finer or democratic sides of ourselves.

Sound prevention of undue taming can be good.

It may help to be informed and abreast of promising developments at hand, but that depends.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure [Ap 347]

It is not always true that those who love are loved back.

The sour bootlicker may hope for activities akin to those army generals try for.

It is hard to get the swine out of the field once it has got used to eating there. [Norwegian proverb]

"You don't have to be ill to be a doctor." Consider with great care.

Long range outlooks, vistas, slowly form our thinking. Doubt with style and inspect discretely to your profit.

Sound, liberal education is quite a thing to go for. [cf. Pseb, index.].

Have sense enough not to talk of what you do not know about, really. Know your limitations and operate accordingly.

Wear and tear and gross responsibility may reduce the life-length by dozens of years unless you take care and know just how to deal with large adjustments and small details that blend into another and work together.

Unfair and unfit may both cause havoc.

Many tricks are easy to see, others remain hidden and are hard to bring to light still.

Duping is a looming problem. People today are exposed to much hearsay.

The fisher is seldom kind and fair to fish he tricks onto the hook or hauls into his nets.

You may be able to open your heaven-eye yourself one sunny day.

Sound circumspection can help a lot if you are helped to accomplish something valuable to your home or yourself on top of it.

Where a fair man cannot enter without hypocrisy, there are marring roadbocks, possible fetters.

There is wisdom in the East. It can be made use of with care.

Seriously doubt that "Whatever one thinks of at the time of death, accordingly one becomes that". (Lahiri saying no. 68). Suppose an Eskimo thinks of a battle scene from an illustrated history book, a scene where 16000 men with elephants and horses were fighting without fighting, because it is a painting - does the Eskimo who dies when meditating on the scene, become (a) that battle over again, long after it happened? (b) a photo? (c) a battle where everybody is "frozen"? (d) everything in the picture, including the frame? How likely is it to be turned into a still picture that moves and is history - not happening now, but -?

Have rewarding and often remunerative outlets for your interest, time, focus, energy, money and mumbo jumbo, but it is best to be on the safe side.

The angle and orientation and perspective in a matter influences outputs.

Thomas Aquinas saw near the completion of his vast magnum opus, the Summa Theologica that what he had written there was as straw compared to his newly given, mystical experiences. So you can do much better than reading Thomas.

Sound interest suits life and may be joyous.

It is a great joy to make the hitherto impossible reality.

A flock of wild geese need to follow fit leaders only.

Careful diving can end well.

Inborn humility is different from expert cleverness in so far as it doesn't strive much. Great humility is also different from expert cleverness based on strategy, but the one hardly precludes the other. Pertinent humility is quite akin to being yourself, pure and simple and fairly naturally. And basic humility is not the only thing we need. We need to be centred as well.

To have enough quiet time and to be thrifty and thriving and go for sound and healthy order should be good for the sincere soul.

Immigration can be the sincerest form of flattery. [Cf Toe 20]

To inherit property is no great cause for regrets. As opposed to that, castles in Spain can be too difficult to manage full well.

You can learn a bit from Eihei Dogen to thrive better.

Who inflicts pain on others, may later crave punishments.

General health reserves can be increased by TM.

Either you assert and affirm yourself or something else, or others.

To escape a bad marriage partner, do not get wed in the first place.

In the long run a poor fellow cannot cope much.

The source of getting well-off as a married couple is essential. It had better be fair and congenial.

Faking is not good for the family. Faking is often for avoiding contacts and regular situations that seem awfully difficult to handle all right otherwise.

To communicate well is hardly by stealth and sacrificing victims.

Care for children and wife can turn obscene around the bend.

Very good insights can pave the way for both frauds and smart solutions. The right smartness had better be fair and welcome.

We do well to put tall and slowly stabilised insights to proficient use.

Hunters don't hunt in order to be gentle.

Wolves live on top of things wolves have ample reason to thank for in their way.

During rest, retreat well and accumulate new reserves for coping and bright love, wonderful and abiding.

Fit self-esteem is not too hard on yourself.

Why expect the crooked guy to be good to others when he's not good and fair to himself?

What is accomplished theft if soul-theft is not?

Cult membership may work against our own self-esteem. [Puse; Rvl; Toh]

It should pay to express well.

Master your favourite subject fairly well, then make money from it.

Master things well before you swim along.

One can accomplish a lot by being tidy.

Saying and doing are at times two different things.

Norse female trolls (gygers) depict natural forces in their way. [Ng: sv. "Tor"].

Watch out for rigmarole, drivel, and a canon that suits conform members of what is turned into sects and cults.

Have the good sense to say no to doctrines or rigmarole you are expected to follow and which makes one stupid.

You should develop your ego instance (realism) to get equipped to combat narcissists and heartless ones and morbid pits around.

One who cannot be candid, may not get enough help from psychoanalysis.

Some may arrange your destruction by hocus-pocus if sound, moral decency and honesty is at stake.

Yogananda hails kings, and calls many yogis kingly. But the Old Testament warns severely against kings. [1 Samuel 8].

Life is short, art long ... experience deceitful, judgement difficult. Hippocrates]

What is needed is to be prepared and fitted for the business. [Hippocrates]

An aphorism can be a "hard-boiled" or condensed statement - of things boiled down, as we say.

House-dogs are useful to man; individual man can be useful to some god deep inside. [Vedic view, cf. Puh 62]

There can be nothing as humbling as wisdom that is down-to-earth.

Some aphorisms deal with reflections of many kinds.

Authors of maxims and aphorisms strive to make the thinking terse and well-looking, even memorable.

A good aphorism rides some sort of neat tact fairly often.

Both fables and anecdotes can contain deeper messages, found out by reflection.

On the surface, the fable (from the Latin fabula, "a telling") is very often a tale about animals who are personified. Fables can include humans and gods.

An advanced Japanese fable form rose to prominence in the Kamakura period (1192-1333). Official histories of Japan were studded with fables: the Koji-ki (712; "Records of Ancient Matters") and the Nihon-shoki (700s, "Chronicles of Japan"). Also, the fudoki (dating from 713 and later) contained many fables on the theme of a small intelligent animal getting the better of a large stupid one.

Figurative matters elicit searching interpretation.

Some common fables have their roots in ancient Egypt and Libya, not Greece and Rome. [Ct.]

Personification as used in fables can be extended to trees, winds, streams, stones and other natural objects.

A fable can resemble a folktale. And the end maxim or norm of it may have been added. The practice became common with Fyler Townsend, who translated Aesop.

The parable resembles the fable in being terse and simple-looking. Both devices can work well for folksy or general counselling.

A parable can be understood as an outstanding story with a wide range of influence.

"Get Tao" scheming has a parable shape: There is an over-all congruence.

Analogies depend on interpretations to get useful. with a fit parable.

What determines the value of fables, may be how well some of their central meanings are determined and recalled.

The worse the better

A long and happy life is much to be desired. To keep thriving may be your duty to your soul.

The rich, rewarding teachings in life should widen your access to influence and good things in life.

You can administer to your best concerns, without being bitter.

Difficulties hardly pay.

Getting tricked without knowing it: what if your religion is for that?

Much can be helped if your neighbours and family refrain from trying to have you maimed and killed.

Tense living makes insecure, which in turns paves the way for great Führers. Relax in time.

Outsmarted by goodness. Many fail because they do not make do with giving another a fish and feed him for a day, but teach him how to feed on fishing in their own waters and in time compete them out of existence - better check how true it is before you believe it. — There is a certain comfort in this proverb: "The worse the man the better the soldier (American)."

Tales

Often there are deep ideas and things to learn at the bottom of good tales.

Recurrent fairy tale lesson: Impulsive acts with no good advance planning are often risky.

There is value in making old fairy tale versions palatable in these hurried times. Not a few tales seem to contain symbolic teachings to be taken seriously. In folk tales and folklore there seem to be good keys for finding our these things. The symbols must be scaled in order to reap useful information. See if you can do this: "She sought out the key, and when she had got it in her hand, she put it in the lock". [From the Grimm tale "Our Lady' Child"].

"Masked plays" with typical, often repeated situations and enactments happen to stimulate old and young ones, sometimes it is pure and simple enjoyment.

Gotham tales are favourable stories. They may have unreckoned-with depth.

To consider humorous tales norotious lies made easy for boys and girls, could miss something significant.

Good jokes can harmonise.

Humour or?

Certain yogis affirm they penetrate a little star within a ring of golden light between the eyebrows. And "When that star bursts, a door reveals . . . the door of the heart", is a saying.

Contemplatives need to practise delicately, at the very least.

Many Oriental teachings, like Zen, can look like humour at first sight. [Orh].

Maintain your balance. Humour can often help that, by presenting a better perspective than many others.

Not all that is presented as humour works for good.

Self-help

Lie down and employ slow, flowing motions - and visualize things well as best you can. Not a few principles of yoga postures are based on things like that.

Quality thinking and probings may take time. You should profit from the good thoughts of others, therefore.

Sound education, in school and otherwise, must enrich the imagination and other high faculties to stay on the safe side, and stimulate personal creativity and good-natured play far.

Along with sound study of how to get handy in this and that, one should tend to trimming off non-essentials as fits.

You can have a deep and suitable self-confidence - much in life may come by stages.

Good tools in proficient hands fairly often pays. If not, look better.

Counsel without help is at times quite useless (Fable wisdom).

Before embarking on tall quests, train solvency and mirthfulness at home first. That could be best.

What we are taught in Kindergarten and onwards through public education tends to determine what we focus on.

Gentle beavers too may be tamed and the tamed ones get nowhere, no matter what things look like to them.

There is much to learn in handling people these days.

Great skills tend to rise higher than mere words.

Observant ones hardly get known as examples through observations alone, as the long art of living is had by living, activity.

Take a look at the bright side of education if you can find it.

One should go for solid technology in doing sane things and make the best out of it, come what may.

We often have to fight, fight for sound psychological space, for example.

Let divergent outlooks favour yourself too.

In order to see a true picture of anything or anyone, fear has to be overcome, for many fears block the ability to see without distortions and bias.

Understanding animals often takes away some of the fear for them.

Some answers you get, depend on who you turn to.

Tao lore has its love-making manuals.

Idol worship is a sort of wildness at play. Really mysterious ones may be all right individuals.

One duty to one's soul is to relax gently and well in between, and otherwise distrust plenty of wilful striving.

If you see or know where the ice is thin, it can save you.

Profitable living may need to be well attuned to local, winning ways on an everyday basis.

Watch out

Even a pure and good state needs power to maintain itself against degradations.

Sensible men and women are truly wanted in life, as judged from the state of affairs.

Many are the outward shows. Remain on the alert for a good deal.

If you end up where no one around you can understand you, evaluate you, admire you, perhaps you've succumbed to some unforeseen trap -

Strive for the right sort of winning and justice, but in some right way.

That mice in suburbs degenerate, is something they are barred from knowing while it happens.

The beaver who leaves the path of beavers before him, could end up in deep trouble in short time.

The all right bedfellow may help a lot.

How much slavery and tyranny God loves! Paul sent a fugitive slave back to the slave-owner - the servant of Jesus in the Holy Spirit did such things. Judged from this, Jesus did not come to set the slaves free anyway.

From out of a burning bush came these words: "I have indeed seen the oppression." Compare the Roman: The woods have ears.

Neoplatonism was developed and made known by persons who did not publish anything, oddly as it may sound.

Making sense -

You can "shake and dilute" pure water with pure water without looking obsessive, as long as you say "It's fit for homeopathy."

You may not always be on the winning side all your life. If conditions allow you to have a say and a home, go for it.

What is very helpful to modern men and women speaks of today, and perhaps not of tomorrow.

Wisdom

Go to the woodpecker, see its ways and be wiser than those who stop at ants they feed on.

Looking into King Solomon's life and teachings, we find all is not wise that is praised as wise.

Instead of harsh discipline, try some decent tenets. Many things can be fit for a warm and sunny day. Other things can be fit on the rainy day and overcome during a life-time.

Bulwark against months of futility.

A beginning step toward better conditions may be to stop hailing those on top who are profiting from you.

Be quick to lie down and test the next moment.

Many wisdom sayings advocate prudence and forethought. But there are times when being guarded is no help anyway. Be aware of that too.

How to nourish and care for your family - including yourself - rests on principles. Firm principles need to be firmly rooted, lesser principles may sway some more in the common adaptation.

Solid words of wisdom suggest how to compete, steer well along through life and its grades and stages, and in the end galvanise the best result into the practices that are done customarily or regularly.

Brilliant solutions are lacking where good enough conditions start deteriorating, or rotting.

Miscellaneous

Counteract dying if you are up to it and the consequences.

Truthful ones are much needed, but not swollen verbiage.

Translations almost inevitably reflect pieces of the culture and conditions and times they are translated into.

The best gambler may be the guy who doesn't seem to gamble at all.

Mind map study is fit for family work.

Use a tape recorder or mini disc to listen to proverbs and wisdom maxims, good rules, and the like.

Up to forty-eight minutes of every study hour is best used for memorisation.

Costly jewelery, paintings and other things that are easy to rob and carry away, may be less worth in the long run than happiness- and sanity-furthering wisdom.

Pertinent humility is different from what is attained from clever social standards; It is more akin to being yourself, pure and simple and fairly naturally.

Essential humility is not the only thing we need.

Do not deceive, and you may study appropriately.

Great humility is different from expert cleverness of strategy.

We need handy sayings to steer on top of in new and different settings.

Much kindness to an intruder or expert burglair could be too grave a cross to bear in time.

Repentance emboldens some.

Public scorn may serve you if you know how to handle it - and its dangers.

Beware of the self-molesting expert.

Let gentle clarity see you through, that inner, guiding light. At the same time and along with it, you could enjoy food and drink and be happy.

Inferior company usually makes us unhappy.

A large organization can act unjustly and highhandedly without fear of being brought to account A mature scientist may seem "cold-blooded" and discerning. The latter is more important.

Aim your axe at the root of the problems.

Believe as little as you can.

It is well to refrain from hard-headed intrigues.

One can point out the highway of daily contemplation.

Priorities may be ranked, and so may goals to attain in a life.

Propaganda is for misfits.

Slave-takers are probably far worse than mere thieves.

Some Himalayan visions of the universe as humbug do not quite exist in a likable way.

To get stupidly religious often means getting duped, unprofitably conform and idiotic.

You can become unsound if you believe everything you are told by big guys.

Weather forecasting has improved since gospel times- It forecasts quite correctly in about 75% of the cases.

St. Isaac

"Do not waste this life in vain pursuits." - Cf St. Isaac the Syrian

Literature  

Orh: Blyth, Reginald Horace. Oriental humour. Tokyo: Hokuseido, 1963.



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