Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/31/2008

The point where Buddhism radically departs from the thought and religion that had existed previously is that it uncovered within the individual's own life the "Law," or limitless inner power, for resolving all suffering on the most essential level. Buddhism is a teaching of unparalleled humanism that believes in the boundless potential within human beings.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/30/2008

A life lived without purpose or value, the kind in which one doesn't know the reason why one was born, is joyless and lackluster. To just live, eat and die without any real sense of purpose surely represents a life pervaded by animality. On the other hand, to do, create or contribute something that benefits others, society and ourselves and to dedicate ourselves as long as we live to that challenge-that is a life of true satisfaction, a life of value. It is a humanistic and lofty way to live.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/29/2008

Attaining enlightenment is not about embarking on some inconceivably long journey to become a resplendent godlike Buddha; it is about accomplishing a transformation in the depths of one's being. In other words, it is not a matter of practicing in order to scale the highest summit of enlightenment at some point in the distant future. Rather, it is a constant, moment-to-moment, inner struggle between the opposing courses of revealing our innate Buddha nature or allowing ourselves to be ruled by our fundamental negativity and delusion. This unceasing effort to polish our lives is the heart and essence of Buddhist practice.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/28/2008

The Buddha's objective is to enable every individual to manifest his or her true identity. In other words, Buddhism lies in respecting yourself to the utmost, revering others to the fullest and making it possible for both you and others to blossom equally as individuals.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/27/2008

Nichiren writes, "If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way." Please be confident that the higher your flame of altruistic action burns, the more its light will suffuse your life with happiness. Those who possess an altruistic spirit are the happiest people of all.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/26/2008

The most basic Buddhist teaching is that everything is change, a never-ending series of changes. Nothing is ever still. What Buddhism seeks to do is, in the midst of that changing reality from which we can never divorce ourselves, in the midst of the "mud" of reality, to help us achieve a state of the highest hope and fulfillment and to lead society and our environment in the direction of peace and prosperity.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/25/2008

Each person has the potential to become a Buddha. Nichiren Buddhism starts from the realization that the supreme life-condition of Buddhahood exists in each of us. It is a teaching that makes it possible for us to achieve the most profound inner transformation-a transformation of our fundamental attitude or mind-set.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/24/2008

Buddhist practice is a process through which we achieve spiritual fitness.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/23/2008

Buddhism is not divorced from reality but is found within it, confronting human suffering head-on and teaching a way to overcome it. Buddhism is about transforming this world of suffering and hardship into a world of hope. Buddhism is in the here and now, not in some distant place.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/22/2008

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

~Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/21/2008

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

~Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/20/2008

Fools wait for a lucky day

but every day is a lucky day

for an industrious man.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/19/2008

The secret of happiness liesin the mind's release from worldly ties.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/18/2008

Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/17/2008

Whether one believes in a religion or not,and whether one believes in rebirth or not,there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

~Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/16/2008

The Four Reliances

First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words;

Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher;

Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation;

And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.

Traditional Buddhist teaching

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/15/2008

We are what we think.All that we are arises with our thoughts.With our thoughts, we make our world.

~Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/14/2008

Love yourself and be awake -today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way,then teach others, and so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked you must first do a harder thing -straighten yourself. You are the only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, and discover your master.

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/13/2008

Fill your mind with compassion.

~Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/12/2008

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience,tolerance, humility, forgiveness.

~Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/11/2008

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery.

We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace.The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion,while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.

~Dalai Lama

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/10/2008

There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom.

Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy.

Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

~Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/9/2008

Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate.

Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted.

Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled.

Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

~Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/8/2008

One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah?""No", answered Buddha."Then are you a healer?""No", Buddha replied."Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted."No, I am not a teacher.""Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated."I am awake", Buddha replied.

~Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/7/2008

Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you.Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.

~Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/6/2008

On life's journey Faith is nourishment, Virtuous deeds are a shelter, Wisdom is the light by day and Right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him; If he has conquered greed nothing can limit his freedom.

~Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/5/2008

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

~Lao Tzu

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/4/2008

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/3/2008

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

~Confucius

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/2/2008

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

~Epicurus

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 12/1/2008

There is no god higher than truth.

~Mahatma Gandhi

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/30/2008

CROWN CHAKRA

Sahasrara, 7th Chakra

Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.

~Zen Buddhist Proverb

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/29/2008

CROWN CHAKRA

Sahasrara, 7th Chakra

Not all those who wander are lost.

~J.R.R. Tolkien

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/28/2008

CROWN CHAKRA

Sahasrara, 7th Chakra

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

~Lorraine Hansberry

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/27/2008

CROWN CHAKRA

Sahasrara, 7th Chakra

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.

~K.T. Jong

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/26/2008

CROWN CHAKRA

Sahasrara, 7th Chakra

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/25/2008

CROWN CHAKRA

Sahasrara, 7th Chakra

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

~Antonio Porchia

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/24/2008

BROW CHAKRA

Ajna, 6th Chakra

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

~Billy Wilder

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/23/2008

BROW CHAKRA

Ajna, 6th Chakra

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

~Florence Scovel Shinn

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/22/2008

BROW CHAKRA

Ajna, 6th Chakra

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/21/2008

BROW CHAKRA

Ajna, 6th Chakra

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.

~Oliver Sacks

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/20/2008

THROAT CHAKRA

Vishudha, 5th Chakra

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

~Lord Byron

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/19/2008

THROAT CHAKRA

Vishudha, 5th Chakra

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make.

~Truman Capote

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/18/2008

THROAT CHAKRA

Vishudha, 5th Chakra

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

~Agnes de Mille

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/17/2008

THROAT CHAKRA

Vishudha, 5th Chakra

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

~Winston Churchill

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/16/2008

THROAT CHAKRA

Vishudha, 5th Chakra

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/15/2008

THROAT CHAKRA

Vishudha, 5th Chakra

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

~Ben Jonson

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/14/2008

HEART CHAKRA

Anahata, 4th Chakra

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

~John Bulwer

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 11/13/2008

HEART CHAKRA

Anahata, 4th Chakra

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

~Henry Van Dyke

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