Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/28/2006

"Externally, while distinguishing well all the forms of the various phenomena, internally she stands firm within the First Principle."

Vimalakirti Sutra

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/27/2006

Do not think of how big the universe is, it will merely hurt your head.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/26/2006

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/25/2006

There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/23/2006

In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/22/2006

On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/21/2006

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/20/2006

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/19/2006

You only lose what you cling to.


What you think upon grows...

Zen Poetry

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.
The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.
Although its light is wide and great,
The moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide.
The whole moon and the entire sky
Are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
~ Dogen



Though I think not
To think about it,
I do think about it
And shed tears
Thinking about it.
~ Ryokan

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/18/2006

In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones that we inevitably have to face, like old age, illness, and death. Trying to avoid our problems or simply not thinking about them may provide temporary relief, but I think that there is a better approach. If you directly confront your suffering, you will be in a better position to appreciate the depth and nature of the problem. If you are in a battle, as long as you remain ignorant of the status and combat capability of your enemy, you will be totally unprepared and paralyzed by fear. However, if you know the fighting capability of your opponents, what sort of weapons they have and so on, then you're in a much better position when you engage in war. In the same way, if you confront your problems rather than avoid them, you will be in a better position to deal with them.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/17/2006

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend or an enemy, as long as that person wishes for peace and happiness and wishes to overcome suffering, then on that basis we develop genuine concern for his or her problem. This is genuine compassion. Usually when we are concerned about a close friend, we call this compassion. This is not compassion; it is attachment. Even in marriage, those marriages that last only a short time do so because of attachment - although it is generally present - but because there is also compassion. Marriages that last only a short time do so because of a lack of compassion; there is only emotional attachment based on projection and expectation. When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears - because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment - and similarly, to have anger without hatred. Therefore we need to clarify the distinctions between compassion and attachment, and between anger and hatred. Such clarity is useful in our daily life and in our efforts towards world peace. I consider these to be basic spiritual values for the happiness of all human beings, regardless of whether one is a believer or a nonbeliever.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/16/2006

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

A Monday request from a reader:

"hi you got any quotes on deep love when you find a connection with someone but sometimes needing to be brave??? thanks "

Love, like a river, will cut a new pathwhenever it meets an obstacle.


Love is like a mustard seed;planted by Godand watered by men.


You know you are in lovewhen you see the world in her eyes,and her eyes everywhere in the world.


Love is strong yet delicate.It can be broken.To truly love is to understand this.To be in love is to respect this.


When you love someone,all your saved-up wishes start coming out.


Marriage is not a ritual or an end.It is a long, intricate,intimate dance togetherand nothing matters morethan your own sense of balanceand your choice of partner.


We sat side by side in the morning lightand looked out at the future together.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/15/2006

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness. Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/14/2006

I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/13/2006

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/12/2006

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/11/2006

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/10/2006

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/9/2006

For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/8/2006

A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors. Such an attitude by a large number of people would block the entire transition to an interdependent yet peaceful and cooperative global society.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/7/2006

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness - the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/6/2006

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery - we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love, compassion, and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/5/2006

Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/4/2006

Be kind whenever possible - It is always possible.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/3/2006

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/2/2006

Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human "brain" with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human "heart" with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/1/2006

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/30/2006

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/29/2006

Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/28/2006

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration 4/27/2006

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/26/2006

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/25/2006

I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

4/24/2006

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.

-Albert Einstein

4/24/2006

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.

-Albert Einstein

EMBI - 4/24/2006

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.

-Albert Einstein

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/24/2006

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.

-Albert Einstein

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/23/2006

Wisdom is often times nearer when we stoop, than when we soar.

-William Wordsworth

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/22/2006

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.

-Fo-Yan

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/21/2006

Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere:
Let us take long walks in the open air...
Let us bathe in the rivers and lakes...
Let us indulge in games...
Let us be more simple: simple and true in our minds above all.
Let us be ourselves.

-Robert Linssen

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/20/2006

Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.

-Thich Nhat Hahn

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/19/2006

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.

-Hsi-Tang

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/18/2006

Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don't worry about clear mind: it is always there. When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes, You must not be attached to the coming or the going.

-Zen Master Seung Sahn

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

-Dogen

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/16/2006

If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

-Lin-Chi

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/15/2006

The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.

-Avatamasaka Sutra

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/14/2006

People in the West are always getting ready to live.

-Chinese Proverb

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/13/2006

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

-Shunryu Suzuki

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/12/2006

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

-Longchenpa(14th century Tibet)

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/11/2006

Thus we see that the all-important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being lucky or unlucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die; finally, how we choose. We walk, and our religion is shown (even to the dullest and most insensitive person), in how we walk. Living in this world means choosing, and the way we choose to walk is infallibly and perfectly expressed in the walk itself.

-R. H. Blyth

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/10/2006

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/9/2006

Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/8/2006

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/7/2006

All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/6/2006

Ride your horse along the edge of a sword; hide yourself in the middle of flames....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/5/2006

Summer at its height-- and snow on the rocks! The death of winter-and the withered tree blossoms!

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/4/2006

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration 4/3/2006

When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/2/2006

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 4/1/2006

The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other....

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/31/2006

The living meaning of Zen is beyond all notions. To realize it in a phrase is completely contrary to the subtle essence; we cannot avoid using words as expedients, though, but this has limitations. Needless to say, of course, random talk is useless. Nonetheless, the matter is not one-sided, so we temporarily set forth a path in the way of teaching, to deal with people.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/30/2006

When you're deluded, every statement is an ulcer; when you're enlightened, every word is wisdom.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/29/2006

One single still light shines bright: if you intentionally pursue it, after all it's hard to see. Suddenly encountering it, people's hearts are opened up, and the great matter is clear and done. This is really living, without any fetters -- no amount of money could replace it. Even if a thousand sages should come, they would all appear in it's shadow.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/28/2006

Just think of the trees: they let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away. If people's hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/27/2006

Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/26/2006

"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/25/2006

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/24/2006

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/23/2006

"To understand everything is to forgive everything."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/22/2006

"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/21/2006

"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/20/2006

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/19/2006

"Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little."

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/18/2006

A Zen master once said to me, "Do the opposite of whatever I tell you." So I didn't.

What you think upon grows...

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/17/2006

"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."

~Gotama Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/17/2006

"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."

~Gotama Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/16/2006

"The only people who believe that samsara and nirvana are the same are those that haven't meditated enough."

~Ajahn Chah

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/15/2006

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around chinatown."

~Woody Allen

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/14/2006

"When I first started reading about Buddhism, I said this emptyness is really heavy!"

~Rev Ryunyo King

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/13/2006

Buddhism cannot strictly be called a religion because it is neither a system of faith and worship, nor "the outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a God or gods having power over their own destiny to whom obedience, service, and honor are due.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/12/2006

In Buddhism there is not, as in most other religions, an Almighty God to be obeyed and feared. The Buddha does not believe in a cosmic potentate, omniscient and omnipresent. In Buddhism there are no divine revelations or divine messengers. A Buddhist is, therefore, not subservient to any higher supernatural power which controls his destinies and which arbitrarily rewards and punishes. Since Buddhists do not believe in revelations of a divine being Buddhism does not claim the monopoly of truth and does not condemn any other religion. But Buddhism recognizes the infinite latent possibilities of man and teaches that man can gain deliverance from suffering by his own efforts independent of divine help or mediating priests.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/11/2006

"Prayers take the character of private communications, selfish bargaining with God. It seeks for objects of earthly ambitions and inflames the sense of self. Meditation on the other hand is self-change." -- Sri Radhakrishnan.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/10/2006

However much we may pray to the Buddha we cannot be saved. The Buddha does not grant favors to those who pray to him. Instead of petitional prayers there is meditation that leads to self-control, purification and enlightenment. Meditation is neither a silent reverie nor keeping the mind blank. It is an active striving. It serves as a tonic both to the heart and the mind. The Buddha not only speaks of the futility of offering prayers but also disparages a slave mentality. A Buddhist should not pray to be saved, but should rely on himself and win his freedom.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/9/2006

"I see nothing more grand in this world than the image of the Buddha. It is an absolutely perfect embodiment of spirituality in the visible domain."

~Count Kevserling

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/8/2006

Buddhists do not worship an image expecting worldly or spiritual favors, but pay their reverence to what it represents. An understanding Buddhist, in offering flowers and incense to an image, designedly makes himself feel that he is in the presence of the living Buddha and thereby gains inspiration from his noble personality and breathes deep his boundless compassion. He tries to follow the Buddha's noble example.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/7/2006

A Buddhist does not seek refuge in the Buddha with the hope that he will be saved by his (i.e. the Buddha's own) personal purification. The Buddha gives no such guarantee. It is not within the power of a Buddha to wash away the impurities of others. One could neither purify nor defile another. The Buddha, as teacher, instructs us, but we ourselves are directly responsible for our purification. Although a Buddhist seeks refuge in the Buddha, he does not make any self-surrender. Nor does a Buddhist sacrifice his freedom of thought by becoming a follower of the Buddha. He can exercise his own free will and develop his knowledge even to the extent of becoming a Buddha himself.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/6/2006

Buddhism does not demand blind faith from its adherents. Here mere belief is dethroned and is substituted by confidence based on knowledge, which, in Pali, is known as saddha. The confidence placed by a follower on the Buddha is like that of a sick person in a noted physician, or a student in his teacher. A Buddhist seeks refuge in the Buddha because it was he who discovered the path of deliverance.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/5/2006

"My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship. My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation."

~The Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/4/2006

"Thus we could say that the Buddha's Dharma is, as experience and as a way to practical realization, a religion; as the intellectual formulation of this experience, a philosophy; and as a result of self- observation and analysis, a psychology. Whoever treads this path acquires a norm of behaviour that is not dictated from without, but is the result of an inner process of maturation and that we - regarding it from without - can call morality."

~Lama Anagorika Govinda

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/3/2006

Rely on the teaching, not on the person;
Rely on the meaning, not on the words;
Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional;
Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.
~The Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/2/2006

One day a young Buddhist on his journey home, came to the banks of a wide river. Staring hopelessly at the great obstacle in front of him, he pondered for hours on just how to cross such a wide barrier. Just as he was about to give up his pursuit to continue his journey he saw a great teacher on the other side of the river. The young Buddhist yells over to the teacher, "Oh wise one, can you tell me how to get to the other side of this river?" The teacher ponders for a moment looks up and down the river and yells back, "My son, you are on the other side."

"hi - have you got any quick quotes on rekindling close friendships with
people? "

"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."- Chinese Proverb

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 3/1/2006

The main disciples of the Buddha are also known as the Great Arhants: Shariputra, known for his understanding of the Abidharma teachings; Maudgalyayana, known for his psychic powers; Mahakashyapa, the great ascetic; and Ananda, the personal attendant of the Buddha who recalled every word the Buddha spoke.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration 2/28/2006

The Buddha once summarised his entire teachings in one sentence:

"I teach about suffering and the way to end it".

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 2/27/2006

Kindly let the power of your compassion arise, To quickly stem the flow of blood and tears. Those unrelentingly cruel ones, objects of compassion, Maddened by delusion's evils, wantonly destroy themselves and others; May they achieve the eye of wisdom, knowing what must be done and undone, And abide in the glory of friendship and love. May this heartfelt wish of total freedom for all Tibet, Which has been awaited for a long time, be spontaneously fulfilled; Please grant soon the good fortune to enjoy The happy celebration of spiritual with temporal rule.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 2/26/2006

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

~Buddha

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 2/25/2006

Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth.

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 2/24/2006

May all beings be filled with joy and peace. May all beings everywhere, The strong and the weak, The great and the small, The mean and the powerful, The short and the long, the subtle and the gross: May all beings everywhere, Seen and unseen, Dwelling far off or nearby, Being or waiting to become: May all be filled with lasting joy. Let no one deceive another,

Let no one anywhere despise another, Let no one out of anger or resentment Wish suffering on anyone at all. Just as a mother with her own life Protects her child, her only child, from harm, So within yourself let grow A boundless love for all creatures.