"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be
accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
September 30, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/30/2013
September 29, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/29/2013
"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers
deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need
punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
September 27, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/27/2013
"Our planet is our house, and we must keep it in order and take
care of it if we are genuinely concerned about happiness for ourselves, our
children, our friends, and other sentient beings who share this great house with
us."
~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
September 26, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/26/2013
"Desire cannot be fulfilled. Moreover, when you are desiring,
desiring, desiring, you face many obstacles, disappointments, unhappiness, and
difficulties. Great desire not only knows no end but also itself creates
trouble."
~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
September 25, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/25/2013
"As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is
to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or
whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger community is concerned,
you must have as many involvements as possible and as many activities as
possible."
~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
September 24, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/24/2013
"Three qualities enable people to understand the teachings:
objectivity, which means an open mind; intelligence, which is the critical
faculty to discern the real meaning by checking the teachings of Buddha; and
interest and commitment, which means enthusiasm."
~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
September 23, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/23/2013
"According to Buddhism, there is a commensurate relationship
between cause and effect where pain and pleasure are concerned. The immediate
cause is karma. Karma means action. Tomorrow's events depend very much on
today's actions, this year's events on last year's, while this century's events
are linked with those of the previous centuries. The actions of previous
generations affect the lives of the generations that follow. This is also a kin
of karma. However, there is a difference between actions carried out by a group
of people or sentient beings jointly, and actions carried out by single person.
In individual cases, the actions of the earlier part of one's life have an
effect on the latter part of one's life."
~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
September 22, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/22/2013
"The mind's own basic nature is ultimately neutral. It can be
influenced by negative as well as by positive emotions. Take, for instance,
those who have a short tempter. When I was young I was quite short-tempered.
However, the mood never lasted for twenty-four hours. If negative emotions are
in the very nature of our mind, then as long as the mind is functioning the
anger must remain. That, however is not the case. Similarly, positive emotions
are also not in the nature of the mind. The mind is something neutral,
reflecting all sorts of different experiences or phenomena."
~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
September 21, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/21/2013
"With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in
ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience,
self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one;
it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can
transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative
qualities."
~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
September 20, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/20/2013
"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."
~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
September 19, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/19/2013
"Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these
feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity
will be endangered."
~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
September 18, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/18/2013
"In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that
someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to
help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not
sufficient; we must become actively engaged."
~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
September 17, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/17/2013
"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."
~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
September 16, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/16/2013
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own
actions."
~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
September 15, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/15/2013
"Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick
an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being
sick."
~Alan Wilson Watts
September 13, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/13/2013
"I am what happens between the maternity ward and the
Crematorium."
~Alan Wilson Watts
September 11, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/11/2013
"When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we
cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us."
~Alan Wilson Watts
September 09, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/9/2013
"Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually
who you really are. In our culture, of course, they'll say you're crazy and
you're blasphemous, and they'll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which
is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your
friends and relations, 'My goodness, I've just discovered that I'm God,' they'll
laugh and say, 'Oh, congratulations, at last you found out."
~Alan Wilson Watts
September 06, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/6/2013
"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while
one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
~Alan Wilson Watts
September 05, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/5/2013
"A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism
tries to unlearn something daily."
~Alan Wilson Watts
September 04, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/4/2013
"Advice? I don't have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If
you're writing, you're a writer. Write like you're a goddamn death row inmate
and the governor is out of the country and there's no chance for a pardon. Write
like you're clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last
breath, and you've got just one last thing to say, like you're a bird flying
over us and you can see everything, and please, for God's sake, tell us
something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your
deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.
Write like you have a message from the king. Or don't. Who knows, maybe you're
one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to."
~Alan Wilson Watts
September 03, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/3/2013
"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick,
and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the
most difficult of all things to know."
~Alan Wilson Watts
September 02, 2013
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 9/2/2013
"The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand
nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to
each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open
and wholly receptive."
~Alan Wilson Watts
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