1. True friends are like diamonds

    4 April 16, 2023

    True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. — Nicole Richie
    A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden. — Unknown

    Celebrating Khmer New Year with my longtime friend Bopha and our beloved Upasika Pok Yath at Wat Kiryvongsa Bopharam, Buddhist Peace Meditation Center on April 16, 2023.

    A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face. — Unknown

    Bopha and Jendhamuni celebrating Khmer New Year at Wat Kiryvongsa Bopharam, Buddhist Peace Meditation Center on April 16, 2023.

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  2. Medicine for the soul

    Comment April 15, 2023

    Life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived … A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I’ve met. — Madeleine L’Engle

    Jendhamuni at Wat Kiryvongsa Bopharam, Peace Meditation Center on April 15, 2023

    Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. — Luther Burbank

    Jendhamuni at home on April 15, 2023

    Jendhamuni celebrating Khmer New Year at Wat Kiryvongsa Bopharam, Peace Meditation Center on April 15, 2023

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  3. A garden is a grand teacher

    Comment April 11, 2023

    A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll

    Life begins the day you start a garden. — Chinese proverb

    Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years. — Unknown

  4. A habit that keeps the body and mind clean and delightful

    Comment April 10, 2023

    Cleanliness is a habit that keeps the body, mind, and environment neat, clean, and delightful and free from dirt and toxic things.
    ― Amit Ray

    The clean person is not the one that runs away from dirt but one who takes the time and effort to tidy up a dirty environment.

    The purpose of art, is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

    Ego is like dust in the mind, without cleaning that dust you can’t see.

    Source: The Organizer

  5. Equanimity embraces the loved and the unloved

    Comment February 7, 2023

    Equanimity embraces the loved and the unloved, the agreeable and the disagreeable, the pleasure and pain. It eliminates clinging and aversion. ― Jack Kornfield

    To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. ― Pema Chödron

  6. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha

    5 November 15, 2022

    Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness. ~Jack Kornfield

  7. When your mind is tranquil

    2 October 21, 2022

    Jendhamuni at Kiryvongsa Bopharam on July 6, 2022.

    When your mind is tranquil, all your ill-thoughts cease. ~Unknown

    Do you feel that praise is easy to let go of and criticism is hard to let go of? They are really equal. But when we are praised we don’t feel disturbed; we are pleased, but it’s not a sharp feeling. Criticism is painful, so we feel it’s hard to let go of. Being pleased is also hard to let go of, but we are partial to it so we don’t have the same desire to get rid of it quickly. The delight we take in being praised and the sting we feel when criticized are equal. They are the same. But when our minds meet these things we have unequal reactions to them. We don’t mind being close to some of them. ~Ajahn Chah

     

  8. The gift of peace and tranquility

    1 October 19, 2022

    Jendhamuni with Buddhist friends, originally from Nepal, at Kiryvongsa Bopharam, Peace Meditatioin Center on July 3, 2022.

    Some people give the gift of peace and tranquility to every life they touch. They are always who they really are. They are blessedly reliable, dependably good, predictably pleasant, loved and treasured by all who know them. You are one of those people. You are a gift of peace and tranquility. ~Anonymous Continue reading →

  9. Naturally stress-free and tranquil life

    Comment October 18, 2022

    “Always be aware that you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and tranquil life you deserve.”
    “One day you’ll look back and realize that you worried too much about things that don’t really matter.”

    ~ Anonymous

  10. Surround yourself with positive people

    Comment October 16, 2022

    Your friends should motivate and inspire you. Your circle should be well rounded and supportive. Keep it tight, quality over quantity.” ~ Anonymous

    Jendhamuni at H.H. Maha Ghosananda’s International Community of Khmer Buddhist Monks Center on October 16, 2022.

    “Keep people in your life that will change it for the better.”
    “Do not expect positive changes in your life if you surround yourself with negative people.”

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Live & Die for Buddhism

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Me & Grandma

My Reflection

This site is a tribute to Buddhism. Buddhism has given me a tremendous inspiration to be who and where I am today. Although I came to America at a very young age, however, I never once forget who I am and where I came from. One thing I know for sure is I was born as a Buddhist, live as a Buddhist and will leave this earth as a Buddhist. I do not believe in superstition. I only believe in karma.

A Handful of Leaves

A Handful of Leaves

Tipitaka: The pali canon (Readings in Theravada Buddhism). A vast body of literature in English translation the texts add up to several thousand printed pages. Most -- but not all -- of the Canon has already been published in English over the years. Although only a small fraction of these texts are available here at Access to Insight, this collection can nonetheless be a very good place to start.

Major Differences

Major Differences in Buddhism

Major Differences in Buddhism: There is no almighty God in Buddhism. There is no one to hand out rewards or punishments on a supposedly Judgement Day ...read more

Problems we face today

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Of the many problems we face today, some are natural calamities and must be accepted and faced with equanimity. Others, however, are of our own making, created by misunderstanding, and can be corrected...

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