1. LOVE…

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    There are different kinds of love, and these are variously expressed
    as motherly love, brotherly love, sensual love, emotional love, sexual love,
    selfish love, selfless love, and universal love.
    If people develop only their carnal or selfish love towards each other,
    that type of love cannot last long. In a true love relationship, one should
    not ask how much one can get, but how much one can give. 

    ~By Ven. Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda

  2. Live more deeply from our own truth

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    When we begin to let go, it’s as if everything begins to break down. All our concepts and beliefs that we use to use to define ourselves by slowly begin to dissolve until they are no longer there. Our expectations fade and our awareness expands until reality becomes something very subjective and impermanent. We begin to realize that every individual is uniquely special and on their own path. Then, we are able to release the need to control other people, we are able to take responsibility for ourselves and begin to live more deeply from our own truth—knowing everyone we meet and every situation we encounter is, most likely, just another lesson in letting go.

    By Molly Robertson, MindBodyGreen

  3. Not only by our own experiences…

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    We don’t live through life only by our own experiences,
    we live through life with other people’s experience as a reference too.

    ― Nike Thaddeus

  4. Your past actions…

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    People screw up. People screw up a lot. We allow our own selfishness to overpower us at times. It happens. But you can’t allow that to tear you down. You can’t keep dwelling on your past choices, and your past actions, or else you’ll never learn from them.

    ― Nicole Sobon

  5. Cry of freedom: Elephant chained up for 50 years is rescued 'and WEEPS with …

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    Cry of freedom: Elephant chained up for 50 years is rescued 'and WEEPS with relief
    Tears: Raju visibly emotional as he is rescued
    Raju the elephant was beaten, abused and forced to go hungry until animal charity workers rescued him last week.

    For 50 years Raju the elephant was held in chains, beaten and abused – a pitiful site with his legs bleeding from spiked shackles and living on ­handouts from passing tourists, writes Sarah Arnold in the Sunday People.

    He was so hungry he would eat plastic and paper to fill his empty stomach. Video and full story

    http://leelavadeeflower.blogspot.com/2014/07/cry-of-freedom-elephant-chained-up-for.html

  6. Lotus Pond… again

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    Playing with little children in the Lotus pond. The little girl asked me to play
    with them in the pond, so I did. We had so much fun, and all our clothes got wet.

    Jendhamuni in the Lotus pond.

  7. The universe whispering…

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    Within you rest’s the universal answer to every question
    that you could ever ask yourself. It’s been said that prayer
    is talking to God….meditation is listening. Can you hear
    the universe whispering to you?

    ~DavidJl

  8. Sensual pleasure…

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    By Ven. Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda

    When one ceases to crave for sensual pleasure and does not seek to find physical comfort in the company of others, the need for marriage does not arise. Suffering and worldly enjoyment are both the outcome of craving, attachment and emotion. If we try to control and suppress our emotions by adopting unrealistic tactics we create disturbances in our mind and in our physical body. Therefore we must know how to handle and control our human passion. Without abusing or misusing this passion, we can tame our desires through proper understanding.


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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