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Buddhism is one of the world's largest religions and originated 2,500 years ago in India. Buddhists believe that the human life is one of suffering, and that meditation, spiritual and physical labor, and good behavior are the ways to achieve enlightenment, or nirvana.
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Siddhartha Resting, in the garden of the Nezu Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
“The mind is both the creator and the destroyer. Choose your thoughts wisely, for they shape your reality and determine your path.”
"Become the energy you want to attract."
"You attract the energy that you give off.
Spread good vibes.
Think positively.
Enjoy life."
Happiness is not a destination to be reached, but a way of being that arises when we find contentment in the simplicity of each moment.
The mind is both the creator and the destroyer. Choose your thoughts wisely, for they shape your reality and determine your path.
5 simple rules for happiness:
1) Free your heart from hatred.
2) Free your mind from worries.
3) Live simply.
4) Give more.
5) Expect less.
Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one.
To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living beings with the eyes of compassion.
When you understand, you cannot help but love.
And when you love, you naturally act in a way that can relieve the suffering of people.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“Nothing can disturb your peace of mind unless you allow it to.”
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Remember the clear light, the pure clear white light from which everything in the universe comes, to which everything in the universe returns; the original nature of your own mind. The natural state of the universe unmanifest.
Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge with it. It is your own true nature, it is home.
– Tibetan Book of the Dead
Painting by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1908)
"The quality of your life depends on the seeds you water. If you plant tomato seeds in your gardens, tomatoes will grow. Just so, if you water a seed of peace in your mind, peace will grow. When the seed of anger in you is watered, you will become angry. The seeds that are watered frequently are those that will grow strong."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go. Please sit down and take an inventory of your life. There are things you’ve been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom. Find the courage to let them go."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Happy Guru Rinpoche Day everybody!
“As for the innermost advice: no matter what kind of disturbing emotion you feel, look into the emotion and it tracelessly subsides. The disturbing emotion is thus naturally freed. This is simple to practice.”
My father is the pure
Awareness of Rigpa, Samantabhadra.
My mother is the
Space of all things, Samantabhadri.
My lineage the indivisibility
of Awareness and Space.
My name is the glorious Lotus-born.
My homeland the unborn Dharma-dhatu.
My sustenance consuming dualistic thoughts.
My destiny is to accomplish the actions
of the Buddhas of past, present and future.
ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔
Oṃ Āḥ Hūṃ Benza Guru Pema Siddhi Hūṃ
Morning meditation in the garden
I feel the gentle coolness of the morning breeze.
The subtle fragrance of frangipani wafting in the air.
Wind chimes tinkle softly and the bamboo creaks.
All of this is simply a miracle
"Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what's happening around us in the here and now."
— Sharon Salzberg
“If you are depressed you are living in the past if you are anxious you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present.” — Lao
being seduced by the notion that a dear hope won't ever come to pass can give rise to depression... sometimes, indeed, this is so because past events misleadingly suggest as much, but it's not always the case... sometimes, there's just no visible path bridging now and hope...
also, misinterpreting past events can lead to anxiety about one's current situation...
regardless of the time, anxiety and depression arise when considering/accepting falsehoods or assumptions as if they were actual...
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