Mother Earth
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March 1, 2015
You carry Mother Earth within you,
She is not just outside of you.
Mother Earth is not just your environment.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
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Not those when tears
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The hardest moment are not
those when tears flow from eyes.
It's when you have to hide the tears
in your eyes with a smile on your lips.~Unknown
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What is love?
Comment March 1, 2015
Love is also defined in the Oxford Dictionary. According to it, love means warm affection, attachment, affectionate devotion, etc. These are synonymous terms for love and they all refer to sentimental worldly love. So, Metta has no full English equivalent. For this Metta is much more than ordinary affection or warm feelings. The Pali word Metta literally means “friendliness”, but also means love without a desire to possess but with desire to help, to sacrifice self-interest for the welfare and well being of humanity. Metta is with out any selection or exclusion. If you select a few good friends and exclude a bad person, then you have not got a perfect grasp of Metta. Indeed Metta is not only benevolent thought, but also performing charitable deeds, an active ministry for the good of one and all.
In the “Metta Sutta” the Buddha has chosen the love of a mother for her child as an example. Imagine a mother’s love when her child is hungry; she watches carefully to feed her child even be fore it asks her for food. When the child is in danger, she will risk her own life. So the Buddha taught us to love all beings as a mother loves her only child. If we can do this even to a small extent, the world will become happier and more peaceful place. In the Dighanikaya, it is said by the Buddha that almost every virtue such as unselfishness, loving sympathy and loving kindness is included in this “Metta”.
(Discourse on Loving-kindness)
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Metta – Loving kindness
Comment March 1, 2015
Scene in Montpellier province, France
Metta is the highest need of the world today, indeed it is more needed than ever before. Because in this new world, there are sufficient materials, money and brilliant wise men and scientists. In spite of these, there is no peace and happiness. It shows that something is lacking, That is Metta.
What is the Buddhist idea of Metta? The Pali word “Metta” means “loving kindness”, not the ordinary, sensual, emotional, sentimental kind of love. Metta has been translated by modem translators into English as generous, mindful loving, loving kindness, sending out thoughts of love towards others” but according to the words of Buddha, Metta has a far wider significance, and a much more extensive implication than this. It means a great deal more than loving kindness harmlessness, sympathy.
(Discourse on Loving-kindness)
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Love and Peace
Comment February 28, 2015Love is not a doctrine. Peace is not an international agreement.
Love and Peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.~Mary Caroline Richards
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Our imaginations
Comment February 28, 2015In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us.
Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready
to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself.~Deepak Chopra
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Love is the way
Comment February 28, 2015Love is the way we show peace,
Love sets us free.
Love is the bond that joins us
to our community.
Love is the answer
that we’ve been searching for.
It lives inside all of us,
just open up the door,
And Love to find Peace…~ Robert Alan Silverstein
Buddhist nun and Jendhamuni at the Meditation Center.
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The Miracle of Life: Dedicated to my turtle +Ken Bruckman
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Live one day at a time
Comment February 28, 2015Living a positive life gives you better quality to your life Life is short! Reach out and grab it while you have it! Embrace all those little daily things! Take time to smell the roses Don’t rush through life. Live one day at a time. Stop worrying so much, it gets you no where. Accept what will be! Let go of all those things that weigh you down! Live, Love & Laugh. ~Suzie Pierce
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Half of our lives
Comment February 28, 2015We spend the first half of our lives trying to grow up
and the other half trying to figure out how we got so old!
~Nishan Panwar
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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Listen to Khmer literature and Dhamma talk by His Holiness Jotannano Chuon Nath, Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia Buddhism.
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
