Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/15/2011

"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/14/2011

"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/13/2011

"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 - 6/12/2011

"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 - 6/11/2011

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/10/2011

"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 - 6/9/2011

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

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/8/2011

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/7/2011

"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 - 6/6/2011

"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."


~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 6/5/2011

"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 - 6/4/2011

"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 - 6/3/2011

"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 - 6/2/2011

"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 - 6/1/2011

"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."


~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/31/2011

"To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."


~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/30/2011

"Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care."


~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/29/2011

"Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water...
Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water."


~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/28/2011

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."


~The Buddha

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Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 5/27/2011

"There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being."


~The Buddha

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