1. Who makes your life beautiful

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    What I'm holding is a Lemon Plum
    Don't choose the beautiful in this life, choose who makes your life beautiful. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but attractiveness is complex, made up of both static and dynamic qualities, and both affect perceptions of attractiveness. People aren't as beautiful as they look, as they walk or as they talk. They are only as beautiful as they love, as the care and as they share. ~Author Unknown

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  2. Pitcher plant

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    Pitcher Orchid. Photo credit: Randy Neufeldt
    Pitcher plant is the common name for a large range of carnivorous genera including Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Nepenthes, Cephalotus, and Heliamphora. They are very unique-looking plants and come in a wide range of colors and even shapes.

    Pitcher plants get their name from their rolled-up leaves that form tube-like edges and create a pitcher shape. The plant is able to lure and trap it’s food by producing nectar inside of their pitcher. Once the prey come to get the nectar, they slip and fall into the pitcher and often aren’t able to get out due to a cap covering the opening of the pitcher, intoxicating or anesthetic substances lining the pitcher which weaken the insects, or the slippery inside that contains water that will often eventually drown the worn-out prey.

    Source: Orchids Made Easy

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  3. Take Not Evil Lightly

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    Think lightly not of evil,
    ‘It will not come to me’,
    for by the falling of water drops
    a water jar is filled.
    The fool with evil fills himself,
    he soaks up little by little.
    ~Dhammapada

    Explanation: Some tend to believe that evil can be taken lightly. There attitude to wrong-doing is that they can get away with anything whatsoever. They say in effect: “I will behave in the way I want. Evil results will never come my way.” But evil accumulates little by little – very much like a water-pot being filled drop by drop. Little by little the evil accumulates, until he is filled with it. Link source

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  4. Merit Grows Little By Little

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    Think lightly not of goodness,
    ‘It will not come to me’,
    for by the falling of water drops
    a water jar is filled.
    The sage with goodness fills himself,
    he soaks up little by little.
    ~Dhammapada

    Explanation: Some tend to think that virtue can be taken lightly, and that virtue practiced is not likely to bring about any spectacular good results. This view is not quite correct. The good done by an individual accumulates little by little. The process is very much like the filling of a water-pot, drop by drop. As time goes on, the little acts of virtue accumulate, until the doer of good is totally filled with it. Link source

    Photo source: The Maha Thera Dr. Hok Savann

    Photo source: The Maha Thera Dr. Hok Savann

  5. You might see a rose, but never smell the perfume

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    One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. ~Dale Carnegie

    Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never smell the perfume. ~Arthur Miller

  6. In sad or singing weather

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    If love were what the rose is,
    And I were like the leaf,
    Our lives would grow together
    In sad or singing weather.

     ~Algernon Swinburne

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  7. The daisy never dies

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    The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies.
    There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. ~James Montgomery

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  8. Prescriptions for a bad day

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    Five truly effective prescriptions to remedy a bad day.
    (You can’t overdose.)

    —Pray; discuss your troubles with God.
    —List your blessings. (The blue sky, soft cookies, warm socks, etc.)
    —Call your mom.
    —Visit an animal shelter and hug a lonely cat.
    —Visit a nursing home and hug a lonely grandparent.

    ~Richelle E. Goodrich

  9. Someone who is very special to you

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    Do you know why God created gaps between fingers?
    So that someone who is very special to you comes
    and fills those gaps by holding your hands forever. ~sms


Live & Die for Buddhism

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Khmer Tipitaka 1 – 110

 ព្រះត្រៃបិដក

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

Maha Ghosananda

Supreme Patriarch of Cambodian Buddhism (5/23/1913 - 3/12/07). Forever in my heart...

Samdech Chuon Nath

My reflection

វចនានុក្រមសម្តេចសង្ឃ ជួន ណាត
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Listen to Khmer literature and Dhamma talk by His Holiness Jotannano Chuon Nath, Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia Buddhism.

Shantidevas’ Bodhisattva vows

My reflection

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

Hermit of Tbeng Mountain

Sachjang Phnom Tbeng សច្ចំ​​ ភ្នំត្បែង is a very long and interesting story written by Mr. Chhea Sokoan, read by Jendhamuni Sos. You can click on the links below to listen. Part 1 | Part 2

Beauty in nature

A beautiful object has no intrinsic quality that is good for the mind, nor an ugly object any intrinsic power to harm it. Beautiful and ugly are just projections of the mind. The ability to cause happiness or suffering is not a property of the outer object itself. For example, the sight of a particular individual can cause happiness to one person and suffering to another. It is the mind that attributes such qualities to the perceived object. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Nature is loved by what is best in us. The sky, the mountain, the tree, the animal, give us a delight in and for themselves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Our journey for peace
begins today and every day.
Each step is a prayer,
Each step is a meditation,
Each step will build a bridge.

—​​​ Maha Ghosananda