May 31, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/31/2008


The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.


May 30, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/30/2008


Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all.


May 28, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/28/2008


One doesn't become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable, and therefore not popular.


May 27, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/27/2008


Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily; If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.


May 26, 2008

May 25, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/25/2008


Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.


May 24, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/24/2008


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequateOur deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world.


May 23, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/23/2008


Food brings benefit for some hours, clothes for some months but wisdom lasts as long as the mind itself. It is the foundation of a better society.


May 22, 2008

May 21, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/21/2008


Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.


May 20, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/20/2008


Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.


May 19, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/19/2008


Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.


May 18, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/18/2008


They must change often, who would be constant in happiness.


May 17, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/17/2008


You must be the change that you wish to see in the world.


May 16, 2008

May 15, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/15/2008


When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.


May 14, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/14/2008


Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom.


May 13, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/13/2008


Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it

Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.


May 12, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/12/2008

This calm steadiness of the senses is called yoga. Then one should become watchful, becomes yoga comes and go.

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May 11, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/11/2008


Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious.


May 09, 2008

May 08, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/8/2008


When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath.


May 07, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/7/2008


Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.


May 06, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/6/2008


When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.


May 05, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/5/2008


The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.


May 04, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/4/2008


Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.


May 03, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/3/2008


All mental constructions are impermanent; They are of the nature to arise and pass away. Having arisen, they cease. Happiness is when they are at peace.


May 02, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/2/2008


These, monks, are the seven treasures. The treasure of conviction, the treasure of virtue, the treasure of conscience & concern, the treasure of listening, generosity, and wisdom as the seventh treasure. Whoever, man or woman, has these treasures is said not to be poor, has not lived in vain. So conviction & virtue, confidence and Dhamma-vision should be cultivated by the wise, remembering the Buddhas' instruction.


~Anguttara Nikaya VII.6


May 01, 2008

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/1/2008


"And what is the wisdom of one who is in training? There is the case where a monk discerns as it actually is that 'This is stress... This is the origination of stress... This is the cessation of stress... This is the path of practice leading to the cessation of stress.'


~Anguttara Nikaya III.73