한영란 | facebookTimeline PhotosIn a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves . See the false as false , The true as trueLook into your heart . Follow your nature . ~ The Buddha ~ I really know how these people are deserted , By the craving and grasping . . Aware of how they are weeping . . I really know how they beg , in front of the death . .!" Everything that has a beginning has an ending . Make your peace with that and all will be well . "--- BuddhaDear Kashapa . . one day this Dhamma ( Buddhism ) will disappear from this world , by the imitation of Dhamma , which will be preached by the monks and practitioners , who claim they are Buddhists . ." The best ornament is Humility . The richest wealth is Wisdom . The strongest weapon is Patience . The best security is Faith . The best tonic is Laughter . " Do everything with a mind that lets go . Do not expect any praise or reward . If you let go a little , you will have a little peace . If you let go a lot , you will have a lot of peace . If you let go completely , you will know complete peace and freedom . Your struggles with the world will have come to an end . ~ Ajahn Chah ~ My teaching is not a philosophy . It is the result of direct experience . .. My teaching is a means of practice , not something to hold onto or worship . My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river . only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation . ~ The Buddha ~ If beings knew as I know the results of sharing gifts , they would not enjoy their use without sharing them with others , nor would the taint of stinginess obsess the heart and stay there . Even if it were their last and final bit of food , they would not enjoy its use without sharing it , if there were anyone to receive it . ~ The Buddha ~ ( Itivuttaka 18 ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------- Worldwide Buddhist Information andEducation Network ► www . TheBuddhism . net - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------☸•°*” ˜˜ ”*°•☸ If you know that all things areimpermanent , all your thinkingwill gradually unwind and youwon ’ t need to think too much . Whenever anything arises , allyou need to say is " Oh , anotherone ! " Just that ! ~ Ajahn Chah ~ Dear ones Samatha ( Concentration ) meditation , develops the mind . . Vidharshana ( Analyzing ) meditation , develops the wisdom . . Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something ; they come from a sense of poverty . We can ’ t simply relax with ourselves . We hold on to hope , and hope robs us of the present moment . We feel that someone else knows what ’ s going on , but that there ’ s something missing in us , and therefore something is lacking in our world . Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us , we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look . That ’ s the compassionate thing to do . That ’ s the brave thing to do . We can ’ t just jump over ourselves as if we were not there . It ’ s better to take a straight look at all our hopes and fears . Then some kind of confidence in our basic sanity arises . Pema ChödronFor one day ( or one day a week ) , refrain from something you habitually do to run away , to escape . Pick something concrete , such as overeating or excessive sleeping or overworking or spending too much time texting or checking e - mails . Make a commitment to yourself to gently and compassionately work with refraining from this habit for this one day . Really commit to it . Do this with the intention that it will put you in touch with the underlying anxiety or uncertainty that you ’ ve been avoiding . Do it and see what you discover . Pema ChödronYou say that you are too busy to meditate . Do you have time to breathe ? Meditation is your breath . Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate ? Breathing is something vital to people ’ s lives . If you see that dhamma practice is vital to your life , then you will feel that breathing and practising the dhamma are equally important . ~ Ajahn Chah ~ Through mindfulness we can chipaway that hard tough mentalitythat wards off gentleness . Allowingtenderness to touch our heart feelsfresh and genuine , that sensitivityis reality . Having disciplined hands and feet . . Disciplined with his all words . . With a concentrated mind . . Live happily in the seclusion . . I call him the monk . .! Yesterday is a memory . . Tomorrow is the unknown . Now is the knowing . Ajahn SumedhoMaking others happy , makes oneself happy ! Making others unhappy , makes oneself unhappy ! http : / / What - Buddha - Said . net / drops / IV / Happy . htmhttp : / / What - Buddha - Said . net / drops / IV / Samana - Sukha . htmhttp : / / What - Buddha - Said . net / drops / V / Buddha _ on _ Bliss . htmhttp : / / What - Buddha - Said . net / drops / IV / Mental _ Medicine . htmhttp : / / What - Buddha - Said . net / drops / IV / Untroubled _ Yeah . htmhttp : / / What - Buddha - Said . net / library / DPPN / wtb / s _ t / sukha . htmhttp : / / What - Buddha - Said . net / drops / V / The _ Laymans _ Happiness . htmI am like a tree in a forest . Birds come to the tree , they sit on its branches and eat its fruits . To the birds , the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever . The birds say sweet or they say sour , but from the tree ’ s point of view , this is just the chattering of birds . Ajahn ChahMy hope and wish is that one day , formal education will pay attention to what I call the education of the heart . Just as we take for granted the need to acquire the proficiency in basic academics , I am hopeful that a time will come when we take it for granted that children , will learn as part of the curriculum , the indispensibility of inner values : Love , compassion , justice and forgiveness . Dalai LamaAs rain falls equally on the just and the unjust , do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all . ~ The Buddha ~ Work out your own salvation . Do not depend on others . ~ The Buddha ~" Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it . " ~ Dalai Lama ~" Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk . " ~ Dalai Lama ~ Hatred is compared to an enemy . This internal enemy , this inner enemy , has no other function than causing us harm . It is our true enemy , our ultimate enemy . It has no other function than simply destroying us , both in the immediate term and in the long term . ~ Dalai Lama ~ If your mind is expansive and unfettered , you will find yourself in a more accommodating world , a place thats endlessly interesting and alive . That quality isnt inherent in the place but in your state of mind . The warrior longs to communicate that all of us have access to our basic goodness and that genuine freedom comes from going beyond labels and projections , beyond bias and prejudice , and taking care of each other . Pema ChödronThe point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to . It ’ s who we are right now , and that ’ s what we can make friends with and celebrate . Pema ChödronJigme Lingpa has advised us that as practitioners , we need two things . one is humility and the other is confidence . When you lose your inspiration , when you think that you are lazy and you don ’ t have devotion , then you should think , ‘ The fact that I think like this is good , it means that I am considering this as a problem . ’ That realization is some kind of renunciation , or at least food for renunciation . And thinking like that , having that kind of attitude , is confidence . And then again sometimes we should think , ‘ What I am practicing is not enough . ’ Not only sometimes , actually , most of the time we should think that what we are doing is not enough , we have to do more . The purification that we are engaging in , the accumulation of merit that we are doing , is not enough . Never enough . That is the practice of humility . So this , too , is really important . Dzongsar Khyentse RinpocheWho doesn ' t have a concept of me and mine , For his body and all the other things which , Have been formed by ever changing materials & immaterial . . Who feels no sad when they lose . . I call him the wise . .! Meditation -->> http : / / bit . ly / UEkgo 6 ☸•°*” ˜˜ ”*°•☸ DIVINE FAME . .. Whoever are devoted to meditation , never giving it up halfway ; Whoever delights in leaving all worldly trouble , not clinging to anything ; Whoever are so acutely aware , alert & awake , even the Divine Devas are longing too see such Noble ones ! Dhammapada 181 http : / / What - Buddha - Said . net / drops / II / The _ 4 _ Noble _ Truths . htmhttp : / / What - Buddha - Said . net / drops / III / Concentration _ Samadhi . htmhttp : / / What - Buddha - Said . net / Canon / Sutta / KN / Dhammapada . Verse _ 181 . story . htmIt also advices us to be positive with ourselves . Instead of getting frustrated with our faults we should appreciate the fact that we have recognized them . If we find a particular weakness , instead of thinking , “ Oh my goodness , how terrible I have this weakness , ” we should think , “ How wonderful I have recognized my weakness . ” We should try to appreciate the recognition of our weaknesses rather than being disappointed in finding them . Tai Situ RinpocheIf you were to follow the Dhammapurely out of love for me or because you respect me , I would not accept you as disciple . But if you follow the Dhamma because you have yourself experienced its truth , because you understand and act accordingly - only under these conditions have you the right to call yourself a disciple of the Exalted one . ~ The Buddha ~ When mindful of the appearance & disappearance , Of the things , which are formed by materials & immaterial . .( Vidarshana Meditation ) He begins to feel the relaxing happiness . . That is an amenity , for who understood the reality . . Mindfulness is the energy that helps us to be truly present . When you are truly present , you are more in control of situations , you have more love , patience , understanding , and compassion . That strengthens and improves your quality of being . It can be very healing to touch your true nature of no - self . May all beings be happy and peaceful ! To serve one ' s parentsto look after one ' s familyto be peaceful in one ' s actions -- these are the Highest Welfares . ~ The Buddha ~[ Mangala Sutta ] Try to be mindful , and let things take their natural course . Then your mind will become still in any surroundings , like a clear forest pool . All kinds of wonderful , rare animals will come to drink at the pool , and you will clearly see the nature of all things . You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go , but you will be still . This is the happiness of the Buddha . Ajahn ChahDear ones . . It is very helpful even to have , a good thought . . Do I have to say how helpful to act upon it . .? Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity . only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others . Pema ChödronIllusion immediately becomes more workable when we acknowledge it as simply an illusion . The Western habit is to work against the grain and to try and organize the illusory into something solid and structured … In the stressful attempt to nail down the illusory nature of things , our chance to be at ease , spacious , awake , and free , which already exists within ourselves , gets lost . Tsoknyi RinpocheIts very hard to rescue another by whom , Who is still stuck in the mud … Likewise one must practice this Dharma frist . . Before preaching others . .! The practitioner of self - liberation is like an ordinary person as far as the way in which the thoughts of pleasure and pain , hope and fear , manifest themselves as creative energy . However , the ordinary person , taking these really seriously and judging them as acceptable or rejecting them , continues to get caught up in situations and becomes conditioned by attachment and aversion . Not doing this , a practitioner , when such thoughts arise , experiences freedom : initially , by recognizing the thought for what it is , it is freed just like meeting a previous acquaintance ; then it is freed in and of itself , like a snake shedding its skin ; and finally , thought is freed in being unable to be of benefit or harm , like a thief entering an empty house . Patrul Rinpoche