1. Looking For Your Face

    27
    From the beginning of my life
    I have been looking for your face
    but today I have seen it
    Today I have seen
    the charm, the beauty,
    the unfathomable grace
    of the face
    that I was looking for
    Today I have found you
    and those who laughed
    and scorned me yesterday
    are sorry that they were not looking
    as I did
    I am bewildered by the magnificence
    of your beauty
    and wish to see you
    with a hundred eyes
    My heart has burned with passion
    and has searched forever
    for this wondrous beauty
    that I now behold
    I am ashamed
    to call this love human
    and afraid of God
    to call it divine
    Your fragrant breath
    like the morning breeze
    has come to the stillness of the garden
    You have breathed new life into me
    I have become your sunshine
    and also your shadow
    My soul is screaming in ecstacy
    Every fiber of my being
    is in love with you
    Your efflugence
    has lit a fire in my heart
    for me
    the earth and sky
    My arrow of love
    has arrived at the target
    I am in the house of mercy
    and my heart
    is a place of prayer

    ~Author: Rumi

  2. Build Your Character

    11

    Continue, even when it is hard to go on. Release, even when it is hard to let go. Endure, even when it is hard to bear. This is how we build Character. ~Master Cheng Yen
  3. I have felt your heart

    53
    Hope
    Is kind.
    Therefore
    I mix with hope.
    Hope
    Is swift.
    Therefore
    I run with hope,
    Hope
    Is brave.
    Therefore
    I collect boundless strength
    From hope.
    Hope
    Is sincere.
    Therefore
    I invite hope
    To accompany me
    To the Golden Shore.

    Poem title: Hope
    ~Sri Chinmoy

  4. If I could make soft raindrops fall

    22
     It’s hard to see someone I love
    be hurt in any way.
    If I could make soft raindrops fall,
    they’d melt your pains away.
    If rainbows brought a smile to you
    then rainbows I would send.
    For peace of mind and happiness
    may keep you on the mend.
    If I could send you sunshine,
    I’d do it in a flash.
    I would wrap the rays around you
    like a warm, comfy sash.
    Instead I’ll send you what I can
    and this is it happens to be;
    A little verse of what you mean
    the most of all to me.
    You’re in my thoughts all thru the day
    and in my prayers too,
    for in my heart I have a place
    especially for you.

    Poem title: If I Could
    Author: Alvie Aguilar Conboy #love


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

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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