It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work without iniquity.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 31, 2007
December 30, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/30/2007
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 29, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/29/2007
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 28, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/28/2007
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
~Buddha
December 27, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/27/2007
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 26, 2007
December 25, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/25/2007
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 24, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/24/2007
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 23, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/23/2007
Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 22, 2007
December 21, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/21/2007
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 20, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/20/2007
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 19, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/19/2007
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 18, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/18/2007
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 17, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/17/2007
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 16, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/16/2007
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 15, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/15/2007
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 14, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/14/2007
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 13, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/13/2007
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 12, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/12/2007
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 11, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/11/2007
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 10, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/10/2007
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
~Buddha
~Buddha
December 09, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/09/2007
When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to.
~Pema Chödrön
~Pema Chödrön
December 08, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/08/2007
We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
~Pema Chödrön
~Pema Chödrön
December 07, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/07/2007
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
~Pema Chödrön
~Pema Chödrön
December 06, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/06/2007
As a loving and grateful student of Chögyam Trungpa, the Dorje Dradül of Mukpo, I am delighted that these teachings-which have so profoundly influenced and shaped my life-are now available to benefit others.
~Pema Chödrön
~Pema Chödrön
December 05, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/05/2007
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
December 04, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/04/2007
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
~Martin Luther
~Martin Luther
December 03, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/3/2007
Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.
~Deepak Chopra
~Deepak Chopra
December 02, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/2/2007
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
~Arthur Ashe
~Arthur Ashe
December 01, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/01/2007
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand dharmas. To be enlightened by the ten thousand dharmas is to free one's body and mind and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.
~Dogen-zenji
~Dogen-zenji
November 30, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/30/2007
There is nothing in the self, so do not seek falsely; what is attained by false seeking is not real attainment. You just have nothing in your mind, and no mind in things; then you will be empty and spiritual, tranquil and sublime. Any talk of beginning or end would all be self-deception. The slightest entanglement of thought is the foundation of the three mires; a momentarily aroused feeling is a hindrance for ten thousand eons.
~Tokusan
~Tokusan
November 29, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/29/2007
The concerns that have come down from numberless ages are only in the present; if you can understand them right now, then the concerns of numberless ages will instantly disperse, like tiles being scattered or ice melting. If you don't understand right now, you'll pass through countless eons more, and it'll still be just as it is.
~Ta Hui
~Ta Hui
November 28, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/28/2007
Mind, Buddha, and sentient beings are not three different things.
~Avatamsaka Sutra
~Avatamsaka Sutra
November 27, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/27/2007
True victory is not defeating an enemy.True victory gives love and changes the enemy's heart.
~Morihei Ueshiba (founder of Aikido)
~Morihei Ueshiba (founder of Aikido)
November 26, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/26/2007
The road enters green mountains near evening's dark;Beneath the white cherry trees, a Buddhist templeWhose priest doesn't know what regret for spring's passing means-Each stroke of his bell startles more blossoms into falling.
~Keijo Shurin
~Keijo Shurin
November 25, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/25/2007
Immaturity is the craving for greater and wider experience.
~J. Krishnamurti
~J. Krishnamurti
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FORGIVENESS is a term that has been in use for 2,000 years, but most people have a very limited view of what it means. You cannot truly forgive yourself or others as long as you derive your sense of self from the past. Only through accessing the power of NOW, which is your own power can there be true forgiveness.
- ECKHART TOLLE
- ECKHART TOLLE
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November 24, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/24/2007
Education is the cultivation of the mind so that action is not self-centred:it is learning throughout life to break down the walls which the mind builds in order to be secure.
~J. Krishnamurti
~J. Krishnamurti
November 23, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/23/2007
Sensitivity is not a cultural effect, the result of influence; it is a state of being vulnerable, open.
~J. Krishnamurti
~J. Krishnamurti
November 22, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/22/2007
When you perceive for yourself that violence only leads to greater harm,is it difficult to drop violence?
~J. Krishnamurti
~J. Krishnamurti
November 21, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/21/2007
Meditation is the ending of thought.
~J. Krishnamurti
~J. Krishnamurti
November 20, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/20/2007
So, does it require competition to understand oneself? Must I compete with you in order to understand myself? And why this worship of success? The man who is uncreative, who has nothing in himself - it is he who is always reaching out, hoping to gain, hoping to become something, and as most of us are inwardly poor, inwardly poverty-stricken, we compete in order to become outwardly rich. The outward show of comfort, of position, of authority, of power, dazzles us because that is what we want.
~J. Krishnamurti
~J. Krishnamurti
November 19, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/19/2007
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
~J. Krishnamurti
~J. Krishnamurti
November 18, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/18/2007
So, does it require competition to understand oneself? Must I compete with you in order to understand myself? And why this worship of success? The man who is uncreative, who has nothing in himself - it is he who is always reaching out, hoping to gain, hoping to become something, and as most of us are inwardly poor, inwardly poverty-stricken, we compete in order to become outwardly rich. The outward show of comfort, of position, of authority, of power, dazzles us because that is what we want.
~J. Krishnamurti
~J. Krishnamurti
November 17, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/17/2007
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
~J. Krishnamurti
~J. Krishnamurti
November 16, 2007
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/16/2007
The true is not an ideal, a myth, but the actual. The actual can be understood and dealt with. The understanding of the actual cannot breed enmity, whereas ideals do. Ideals can never bring about a fundamental revolution, but only a modified continuity of the old. There is a fundamental and constant revolution only in action from moment to moment which is not based on an ideal and so is free of conclusion.
~J. Krishnamurti
~J. Krishnamurti
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