"Unwholesome action, hurting self, comes easily. Wholesome action,
healing self, takes effort."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 31, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/31/2014
March 30, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/30/2014
"Practice living every moment of your daily life deeply and in
freedom. If that's what you really want, then what you need to do is let go of
pursuing the past, the future, and all your worries, and come back to the
present moment."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 29, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/29/2014
"Whoever moves from carelessness to vigilance, whoever overcomes
his unwholesome deeds with wholesome actions, lights up the world, like the moon
that merges from a cloud."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 27, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/27/2014
"Fools do not praise generosity, the wise rejoice in
generosity."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 25, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/25/2014
"Health is the highest prize. Contentment is the greatest wealth. A
loyal friend is the best relative. Nirvana is supreme bliss."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 24, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/24/2014
"Where there is anger, apply loving kindness. Where there is evil,
offer good. Where there is stinginess, be generous. Where there are lies, be
truthful."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 22, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/22/2014
"Giving up wrong deeds, exercise right action. Giving up wrong
speech, exercise right speech. Giving up wrong thoughts, think good
thoughts."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 21, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/21/2014
"Those who practice restraint in body, word, and mind are surely in
control of themselves."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 20, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/20/2014
"The wise man carefully, moment by moment, one by one, eliminates
the stains of his mind."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 19, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/19/2014
"There is no fire like lust, no vice like hatred, no trap like
delusion, and no galloping river like craving."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 17, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/17/2014
"The wise man, by vigor, mindfulness, restraint, and self-control,
creates for himself an island which no flood can submerge."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 16, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/16/2014
"As rain pours through poorly thatched houses, so does desire
penetrate an undeveloped mind."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 15, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/15/2014
"Using your intelligence and your compassion, you'll be able to
find your way out of any difficulty that arises in daily life. This gives you
greater confidence in your own capability, making you even more solid."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 14, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/14/2014
"Mind is the forerunner of all actions. All deeds are led by mind,
created by mind. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, suffering follows.
If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 13, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/13/2014
"Life is enhanced and ultimately perfected by inward
development."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 12, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/12/2014
"Emotions are but one category of the many different mental
formations we can have. They come, they stay for a while, and then they go. Why
should we have to die for an emotion?"
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 11, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/11/2014
"First of all, you need to know that an emotion is only that-an
emotion-even though it may be a big, strong one. You are so much bigger, so much
more than this emotion."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 07, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/7/2014
"Unwholesome acts cannot bring wholesome results. The things a fool
gains amount to nothing."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 06, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/6/2014
"As the pot slowly fills up with water, drop by drop, so does the
fool, little by little, become evil."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 05, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/5/2014
"Mindfulness is the capacity to shine the light of awareness onto
what's going on here and now. Mindfulness is the heart of meditation
practice."
~Thích Nhất Hạnh
March 04, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/4/2014
"Somewhere we've developed the misconception that poetry is
self-expression, and that meditation is going inward. Actually, poetry has
nothing to do with self-expression, it is the way to be free, finally, of
self-expression, to go much deeper than that. And meditation is not a form of
thought or reflection, it is a looking at or an awareness of what is there,
equally inside and outside, and then it doesn't make sense anymore to mention
inside or outside."
~Norman Fischer
March 03, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/3/2014
"Meditation is when you sit down, let's say that, and don't do
anything. Poetry is when you get up and do something."
~Norman Fischer
March 02, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/2/2014
"Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing
formal meditation or child care."
~Norman Fischer
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