I add a smile to everything I wear
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May 10, 2016
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. ~Jim Beggs
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May all beings have happy minds
Comment May 9, 2016Whatever living beings there may be — feeble or strong, long, stout, or of medium size, short, small, large, those seen or those unseen, those dwelling far or near, those who are born as well as those yet to be born — may all beings have happy minds. —The ~Buddha, Karaniya Metta Sutta
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Know from the rivers
Comment May 9, 2016Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet. ~The Buddha
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Travel with the mind
Comment May 9, 2016A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind. ~Michael Bassey Johnson
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If there were a little more silence
Comment May 9, 2016If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something. ~Federico Fellini
ផ្ទះពលរដ្ឋដែលត្រូវខ្យល់កន្ត្រាក់បំផ្លាញ ឋិតនៅឃុំចម្ការលើ ស្រុកថាឡាបរិវ៉ាត់ ខេត្តស្ទឹងត្រែង កាលពីថ្ងៃទី៦ ខែឧសភា ឆ្នាំ២០១៦។ Source: RFA
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The future Buddha being attacked by Mara
Comment May 8, 2016
The future Buddha being attacked by Mara, the evil one, just before he attained enlightenment
13. The future Buddha being attacked by Mara, the evil one, just before he attained enlightenment
After eating the milk-porridge offered by Sujata, the Future Buddha took his noonday rest on the bank of the Neranjara, in the cool and pleasant shade of a grove of sal trees. And at nightfall he went towards the Bodhi tree. On the way he received from a grass-cutter named Sotthiya eight handfuls of grass and sat down cross-legged on that grass. He made the mighty resolution: “I will not stir from this seat until I have attained the supreme and absolute wisdom”. Many higher and lower gods with Sakka came near the Future Buddha.
The god Mara, the Evil One, saw the Future Buddha seated in that unconquerable position and knew that he was sure to become a Buddha. He went back to his celestial realm and brought his army drawn out for battle. He grasped a variety of weapons himself and sounded the war-cry, “Advance! Seize!” to frighten the Great Being. But the Future Buddha won a peaceful victory over Mara with the power of loving kindness, which he had practised in his many past lives, just as a mother would tame a cruel and wicked son with her maternal love.
THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BUDDHISM
by ASHIN JANAKA BHIVAMSA (Aggamahapandita)
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Happy Mother’s Day
Comment May 8, 2016I love my mom, my dad, my grandma forever and ever… till my last breath… I don’t have any special treat for my mom on ‘Mother’s Day’. I treat her just the same… with love and care… each, and every single day… ~Jendhamuni
RFA photo
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Write it on your heart
Comment May 7, 2016
Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Future Buddha receiving milk-porridge
Comment May 7, 2016
The future Buddha receiving the milk-porridge offered by Sujata
12. The future Buddha receiving the milk-porridge offered by Sujata
There lived in the village of Senani, near Uruvela forest, a girl named Sujata. She had uttered a prayer for fulfillment of her wish at a banyan tree, and vowed a yearly offering to it, if she should have a good marriage and a son as her first born child. The wish having been fulfilled, she used to make an offering every year at the banyan tree. Now the Great Being had resumed taking usual food, because he found that the austerities he practised for full six years were not the way to enlightenment.
On the full moon day of the month Vesakha (April-May), the Future Buddha who had attained 35 years of age, was sitting under the banyan tree. Sujata caught sight of the Future Buddha and, supposing him to be the tree-god, her benefactor, who had come down, offered him milk-porridge in a golden bowl that was worth a hundred thousand pieces of money. He proceeded to the banks of the Neranjara and ate the food. He took the bowl to the river bank and set it on the river saying, “If today I shall be able to became a Buddha, let this bowl go up stream”. It floated up-stream!
THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BUDDHISM
by ASHIN JANAKA BHIVAMSA (Aggamahapandita)
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Beauty of nature
Comment May 7, 2016If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. —Rainer Maria Rilke
Live & Die for Buddhism
Khmer Tipitaka 1 – 110
ព្រះត្រៃបិដក ប្រែថា កញ្រ្ចែង ឬ ល្អី ៣ សម្រាប់ដាក់ផ្ទុកពាក្យពេចន៍នៃព្រះសម្មាសម្ពុទ្ធ
The Tipitaka or Pali canon, is the collection of primary Pali language texts which form the doctrinal foundation of Theravada Buddhism. The three divisions of the Tipitaka are: Vinaya Pitaka, Sutta Pitaka, Abhidhamma Pitaka.
Maha Ghosananda
Samdech Chuon Nath
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Shantidevas’ Bodhisattva vows
Should anyone wish to ridicule me and make me an object of jest and scorn why should I possibly care if I have dedicated myself to others?
Let them do as they wish with me so long as it does not harm them. May no one who encounters me ever have an insignificant contact.
Regardless whether those whom I meet respond towards me with anger or faith, may the mere fact of our meeting contribute to the fulfilment of their wishes.
May the slander, harm and all forms of abuse that anyone should direct towards me act as a cause of their enlightenment.
As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so the wise are not shaken by blame and praise. As a deep lake is clear and calm, so the wise become tranquil after they listened to the truth…
Good people walk on regardless of what happens to them. Good people do not babble on about their desires. Whether touched by happiness or by sorrow, the wise never appear elated or depressed. ~The Dhammapada
