"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for
the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely
and earnestly."
~Gautama
Buddha
July 29, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/29/2014
July 28, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/28/2014
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
July 27, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/27/2014
"The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a
lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's
suffering and bring that person joy."
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/26/2014
"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less
difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a
hardship today."
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
July 25, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/25/2014
"Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.
Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment."
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
July 24, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/24/2014
"Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are
excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace."
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
July 23, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/23/2014
"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious
breathing is my anchor."
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
July 22, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/22/2014
"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for
happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or
possessions - we cannot be free."
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/21/2014
"The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until
you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy."
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/20/2014
"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a
fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
July 19, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/19/2014
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be
accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
July 18, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/18/2014
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your
smile can be the source of your joy."
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
July 17, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/17/2014
"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."
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
July 16, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/16/2014
"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."
~Thích
Nhất Hạnh
July 15, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/15/2014
"The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel
suffering, it doesn't mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally
somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don't have to feel
it's happening because we personally made the wrong move. In reality, however,
when we feel suffering, we think that something is wrong. As long as we're
addicted to hope, we feel that we can tone our experience down or liven it up or
change it somehow, and we continue to suffer a lot."
~Pema
Chödrön
July 14, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/14/2014
"We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate
perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone
who is awake, that's death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling
confirmed and whole, self contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It
doesn't have any fresh air. There's no room for something to come in and
interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our
experience."
~Pema
Chödrön
July 13, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/13/2014
"Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and
our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary
everyday lives."
~Pema
Chödrön
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/12/2014
"We awaken this bodhichitta, this tenderness for life, when we can
no longer shield ourselves from the vulnerability of our condition, from the
basic fragility of existence. In the words of the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, "You
take it all in. You let the pain of the world touch your heart and you turn it
into compassion." It is said that in difficult times, it is only bodhichitta
that heals."
~Pema
Chödrön
July 11, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/11/2014
"Thinking that we can find some lasting pleasure and avoid pain is
what in Buddhism is called samsara, a hopeless cycle that goes round and round
endlessly and causes us to suffer greatly. The very first noble truth of the
Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we
believe that things last-that they don't disintegrate, that they can be counted
on to satisfy our hunger for security."
~Pema
Chödrön
July 10, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/10/2014
"Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth."
~Pema
Chödrön
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/9/2014
"We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other
people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's
hearts."
~Pema
Chödrön
July 08, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/8/2014
"We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get
addicted to other people's wrongness."
~Pema
Chödrön
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/7/2014
"True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less
fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings."
~Pema
Chödrön
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/6/2014
"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental
harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and
the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."
~Pema
Chödrön
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/5/2014
"The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we
could be saved from being who we are."
~Pema
Chödrön
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/4/2014
"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to
annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us."
~Pema
Chödrön
July 03, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/3/2014
"In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday
lives."
~Pema
Chödrön
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/2/2014
"An emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just
ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course. One and
a half minutes, that's all. When it lasts any longer, which it usually does,
it's because we've chosen to rekindle it."
~Pema
Chödrön
July 01, 2014
Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 7/1/2014
"Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions
have the same potential to create good human beings."
~14th
Dalai Lama
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