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[camerata]

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

- Unknown

[camerata]

We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

[sabaijai]

If the creator of the world entire
They call God, of every being be the Lord
Why does he order such misfortune
And not create concord?

If the creator of the world entire
They call God, of every being be the Lord
Why prevail deceit, lies and ignorance
And he such inequity and injustice create?

If the creator of the world entire
They call God, of every being be the Lord
Then an evil master is he,
Knowing what's right did let wrong prevail!

Bhuridatta Jataka

[camerata]

Ehipassikadhamma means to come and see, to turn towards or go to the Dhamma. It means to look, to be aware. It is not that we pray to the Dhamma to come, or wait for it to tap us on the shoulder; we have to put forth effort. It is like Christ’s saying, ‘Knock on the door and it shall be opened.’ Ehipassiko means that we have to put forward that effort, to turn towards that truth.

- Ajahn Sumedho, Now is the Knowing.

[Neeranam]

DOWNFALL

When the mind decays,
through immoral acts,[1]
one's whole life too decays,
one's own roots are uprooted.
and the the journey begins,
towards one's downfall.

[1] Constantly going outside the boundaries of the five precepts.

[sabaijai]

Steady and unruffled sure is he
Whose mind rests as a mighty hill,
Removed from things arousing thirst
By those that provoke rage unhurt
Refined when his mind thus,
How can suffering make a fuss?
Diligent and devoted to the higher mind,
A safe, in wisdom's ways trained
Sorrows none afflict the stable one
Who is forever mindful and calm".

Mindfulness is the way to peace, happiness and
the state of human perfection
May you be well, happy, and peaceful!

[mokwit]

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

Dhammapada

[sutnyod]

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

HHDL

[vinny]

From Be good, be happy:

Quote

“Kindness is part of goodness. Because, as the Buddha once told His son Rahula, whatever is harmful to another person and harmful to yourself, is what is unvirtuous. Whatever is helpful to another person and helpful to yourself, that is called virtuous, good Kamma. So it is obviously being kind to yourself, is to be virtuous, to be good. There is no difference being kind and being good. Immoral people are unkind to themselves and unkind to others,” he said.

[camerata]

Looking outside the self is comparing, discriminating. You will not find happiness that way. Nor will you find peace if you spend your time looking for the perfect man or the perfect teacher. The Buddha taught us to look at the Dhamma, the truth, not to look at other people.

- Ajahn Chah

[lannarebirth]

Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.
Ajahn Brahm (Opening the Door of Your Heart)

[Nudee]

The citta that is sent outside is Samudaya. (Cause)
The result from sending the citta outside is Dukkha. (Suffering)
Citta seeing citta is Magga. (The Way)
The results of citta seeing citta are Nirodha. (Cessation)

------
Luang Pu Dun

[camerata]

If you know all about Buddhism but don't know about you, you've missed the whole point.

- Larry Rosenberg, Breath by Breath.

[BigSnake]

Food for thought.     

[Austhaied]

"Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless."

Phra Ajahn Chah...

[himachal]

sutnyod, on 2007-10-01 18:09:01, said:

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

HHDL

Thank you once again, YH !

I read a poem many years ago that I have never forgotten. It is so short and simple, yet seemed so poignant to me. (I think it was translated from the Tripitakka, whatever that is!!!)

"Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A shooting star, a bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom and a dream."

Peace to all..........

[Austhaied]

Intelligent people know others.
Enlightened people know themselves.

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[MagicaLight]

"A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't."

- Ajahn Chah

[sabaijai]

"[Meditation] is the process of steadily bringing ourselves out of distraction."

-- from Diamond Mind: A Psychology of Meditation by Rob Nairn

[MagicaLight]

"We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering."

~ Ajahn Chah

[ashish2489]

wh is thought of the day.
the thought of the day is just the  act we want to do in whole of the day.
the thought can make many changes in the society and even to the common man . the thought give us direction to what we want in day.

my fav thought "problems are, solutions indisguise'

[MagicaLight]

"On a trip a man should travel with a companion of equal mind or one who has a better mind; one had better travel alone than to travel with a fool".~Sacred sayings

[Shotime]

Foggy Dew, on 2007-02-22 00:01:43, said:

"Man’s happiness consists not in the multiplicity of his possessions but in the fewness of his wants."  

Regards.

Foggy Dew

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

Is mindfulness the understanding and awareness of "what is what?"

"In the past centuries there have been many learned Teachers who have laid down various paths to show the Truth. Among these, Buddhism is one, and according to it my opinion is that except for the differences in the names and forms of the various religions the Ultimate Truth is the same."

The Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso  (I'm not sure if this is GW's fellow traveler)

"On a trip a man should travel with a companion of equal mind or one who has a better mind; one had better travel alone than to travel with a fool".~Sacred sayings

"Treat each human friend by thinking that he is under the power of defilements like us, hence he sometimes errs"

Buddhadasa Inapanno

Edited by Shotime, 2008-07-17 09:04:10.

[MagicaLight]

'Imagine I told you that a certain fruit tasted sour and invited you to try some of it. You would have to take a bite from it to taste the sourness. Some people would willingly take my word for it if I told them the fruit was sour, but if they simply believed that it was sour without ever tasting it, that belief would be useless (mogha), it wouldn't have any real value or meaning. If you described the fruit as sour, it would be merely going by my perception of it. Only that. The Buddha didn't praise such belief. But then you shouldn't just dismiss it either: investigate it. You must try tasting the fruit for yourself, and by actually experiencing the sour taste, you become your own internal witness. Somebody says it's sour, so you take it away and, by eating it, find out that it really is sour. It's like you're making double sure - relying on your own experience as well as what other people say. This way you can really have confidence in the authenticity of its sour taste; you have a witness who attests to the truth.
Venerable Ajahn Mun referred to this internal witness that exists within the mind as sakkhibhūt'.

[camerata]

"Our suffering stems from our likes and dislikes rooted in the false sense of self."

- gist of the Buddha's First Sermon on Asarnha Bucha Day.