Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/30/2006

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/29/2006

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/28/2006

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/27/2006

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/26/2006

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/25/2006

May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/24/2006

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/23/2006

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/22/2006

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/21/2006

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/20/2006

Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/19/2006

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/18/2006

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/17/2006

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those that hustle.

~Abraham Lincoln

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/16/2006

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/15/2006

People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you're given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give you everything you need to open further.

~Pema Chodron

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/14/2006

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.

~Pema Chodron

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/13/2006

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

~Pema Chodron

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/12/2006

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

~Pema Chodron

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/11/2006

We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society. It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others. Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground.

~Pema Chodron

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/10/2006

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

~Pema Chodron

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/9/2006

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

~Pema Chodron

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/8/2006

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

~Pema Chodron

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/7/2006

We feel we're supposed to be better than we are in some way. But with this practice you take yourself completely as you are. Then ironically, taking in pain - breathing it in for yourself and all others in the same boat as you are - heightens your awareness of exactly where you're stuck.

~Pema Chodron

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/6/2006

When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to.

~Pema Chodron

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/5/2006

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

~Pema Chodron

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/4/2006

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

~Pema Chodron

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/3/2006

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person will not be found: You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/2/2006

Holding fast to the Truth they shall reach the topmost height.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/1/2006

Doubt can be a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations, a thorn that irritates and hurts.

~Buddha