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Words from Buddhist Teachers 
He endures �?unangered �?BR>insult, assault, and imprisonment.
His army is strength;
his strength, forbearance:
he's what I call
a brahmin . ~ Dhammapada 399, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu 
Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaced control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.
~ Kathleen McDonald, "How To Meditate"
One who seeks delight in form seeks delight in suffering. One who seeks delight in suffering, I say, is not freed from suffering.
~ Buddha, "The Connected Discourse of the Buddha"
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the Buddha...Using the mind to look for reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
~ Bodhidharma
He knows his former lives.
He sees heavens and states of woe,
has attained the ending of birth,
is a sage who has mastered full-knowing,
his mastery totally mastered:
he's what I call
a brahmin. ~ Dhammapada 423, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Of the divine state of love the near enemy is lust, because, like love, it sees good qualities. It is like a foe lurking near a man. Quickly it finds access. Hence love should be well protected from lust. Ill-will is the distant enemy. From its dissimilarity in nature it is like a man's foe dwelling in a mountain fastness, and so on. Hence love should be developed secure from ill-will. It is impossible that one should develop love and at the same time get angry. ~ Buddhaghosa, "Visuddhimagga"
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Peace Quotes from The Dalai Lama | His Holiness The Dalai Lama Quotes on Peace
In the face of unbearable world tension, many of us turn to the wise words of the Dalai Lama for inspiration and guidance. Here are his thoughts about becoming peace:
"All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons." "Nonviolence does not mean that we remain indifferent to a problem. On the contrary, it is important to be fully engaged. However, we must behave in a way that does not benefit us alone. We must not harm the interests of others. Nonviolence therefore is not merely the absence of violence. It involves a sense of compassion and caring. It is almost a manifestation of compassion." "Anyone who practices the Dharma has a duty to do battle with the enemy �?negative emotions." "It is worth reminding ourselves that what brings us the greatest joy and satisfaction in life are those actions we undertake out of concern for others. Indeed we can go further. For whereas the fundamental questions of human existence, such as why we are here, where we are going, and whether the universe had a beginning, have each elicited different responses in different philosophical traditions, it is self-evident that a generous heart and wholesome actions lead to greater peace." "Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family." "The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas--it enables you to refrain from reacting angrily to the harm inflicted on you by others. You could call this practice "inner disarmament," in that a well-developed tolerance makes you free from the compulsion to counterattack. For the same reason, we also call tolerance the "best armor," since it protects you from being conquered by hatred itself." "If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one."
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BUDDHIST WISDOM 
Meditation is like a single log of wood.
Insight and investigation are one end of the log;
calm and concentration are the other end.
If you lift up the whole log,
both sides come up at once.
Which is concentration and which is insight?
Just this mind. -Ajahn Chah, "Still Forest Pool"  | | Design&Graphics©LovingDesign | |
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Crookedness and truth (straightness) are in their nature opposite and cannot dwell together more than frost and fire; for one who has become religious, and practices the way of straight behaviour, a false and crooked way of speech is not becoming. -Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King |
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Being Happy ... The Guardian, Mark Vernon writes that "positive psychology" has taught us very little about happiness. "The science of happiness barely grasps the things that the average sage of antiquity took as fundamental," Vernon writes. Vernon argues that positive psychology is based on a flawed premise -- that happiness is the experience of pleasure. He sites Richard Schoch, a professor at Queen Mary University of London, who argues that the pursuit of pleasure is a dead end. Schoch says, "Behind the pursuit of pleasure lies desire - the impulse to possess whatever we find attractive. We might say that the root cause of unhappiness is unbridled desire, as Buddha preached in the towns and villages of northern India more than 2,000 years ago." Vernon and Schoch are discussing the same thing the Buddha taught in the Four Noble Truths. To be attached to the senses and the fleeting experiences of pleasure is to be trapped on a hamster wheel of craving and dissatisfaction. On the other hand, Pema Chodron defines happiness as being "At home with yourself in your world. Not separating yourself from others. Not hardening your heart, or your mind to others, or to the world." May all beings be happy.
Saturday February 2, 2008 Your Guide to Buddhism. |
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Happy New Year (Year of the Rat) 2008 Chinese New Year is not, strictly speaking, a Buddhist holiday. However, Chinese Buddhists do begin the New Year with religious observation. In today's New York Times, Ann Farmer describes New Year activities at a Chinatown temple. Nuns and volunteers at the American Society for Buddhist Studies in Manhattan cleaned every inch of their temple. They also prepared vegetarian food for the huge numbers of people who will come to the temple today to offer incense and prayers for the coming year. Farmer writes that "people stand in line for hours in the cold," to enter the temple, "bowing first to the plump Buddha that sits at the entrance surrounded by glowing candles and offerings of oranges." This is also the beginning of the New Year for Vietnamese, Koreans, and Tibetans. |
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