Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/31/2011

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

~The Buddha




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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/30/2011

"Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."

~The Buddha




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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/29/2011

"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."

~The Buddha




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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/28/2011

"The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze."

~The Buddha




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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/27/2011

"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."

~The Buddha




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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/26/2011

"Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world."

~The Buddha





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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/25/2011

"I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise."

~The Buddha




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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/24/2011

"Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."

~The Buddha




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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/23/2011

"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."

~The Buddha




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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/22/2011

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."

~The Buddha




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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/21/2011

"As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/20/2011

"The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/19/2011

"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/18/2011

"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/17/2011

"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/16/2011

"There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/15/2011

"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."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/14/2011

"If a man's thoughts are muddy, if he is reckless and full of deceit, how can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, bright, clear and true, he may indeed wear the yellow robe."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/13/2011

"In every trial...Let understanding fight for you."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/12/2011

"In this world hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate.

This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/11/2011

"An untroubled mind,No longer seeking to considerWhat is right and what is wrong,A mind beyond judgements,Watches and understands."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/10/2011

"Speak or act with an impure mind, And trouble will follow you."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/9/2011

"Fear must exist as long as there is an urge to be or to become, which is the pursuit of success, with all its frustrations and tortuous contradictions."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/8/2011

"Fear is obviously one of the barriers to intelligence, is it not? And surely it is the very essence of education to help the student - you and me - to be aware of and to understand the causes of fear, so that from childhood onwards he can live free of fear."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 1/7/2011

"Freedom of mind comes into being when there is no fear, when the mind has no desire to show off and is not intriguing for position or prestige. Then it has no sense of imitation. And it is important to have such a mind - a mind really free of tradition, which is the habit-forming mechanism of the mind."

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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