A Buddhist monk who studied and meditated on the teachings of Buddha for over a decade wanted to speak with an enlightened one who dwelled alone in a small temple high in the mountains. He prepared…
Source: Tea . A Zen Story; rewritten by Nina Yin / Goodnightnina.
Some well-intentioned persons believe that rage and outrage are necessary for beneficial activism.
However, all variations of anger, while making us feel “sharp”, actually dull the mind and make us ineffective. Anger narrows our focus, and makes us blind to context. Anger exhausts and demoralizes. Anger destroys. Anger saps power.
Peace and radical compassion are the essential components of effective activism.
Source: Rage and Outrage
When you are sick and in pain, when your possessions are stolen, when you are scolded, defamed, or abused, when you experience misfortune or are hungry, don’t let your head hang low, don’t let your…
Source: Difficult, but necessary
If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth. —Ayya Khema
I am always updating the little shrine in my living room. I had some sand from my visit to red rock nevada in a jar for over 12 years and finally had a very good use for it. I unscrewed an old wooden art box that held paints, pencil crayons, markers and pastels and filled it up with the sand. Placing buddha inside of a lotus in the centre 🙂 ….
As I continue on my mission for a Fung Shui home I hope this fire element zen garden can bring me some positivity.
Nina
“Do not retaliate with anger when attacked with rage.
Do not retaliate with abuse when reviled.
Do not retaliate with criticism when blamed.
Do not retaliate with blows when threatened with physical violence”.
—Buddha Shakyamuni
Source: Four Restraints
These two mental states are conducive to correct knowledge. Which two?
Peace and clarity.By developing peace, what purpose is served? Mind is purified.
By purifying mind, what purpose is served? Craving is abandoned.
By developing clarity, what purpose is served? Wisdom is developed.
By developing wisdom, what purpose is served? Ignorance is abandoned.
Defiled by craving, the mind is not released [from emotional agitation], and defiled by ignorance, wisdom is not developed.
Thus, abandoning craving through peace, there is liberation of the mental fluctuations, and abandoning ignorance through clarity, there is liberation by wisdom.—Buddha
Shakyamuni, Vijjābhāgiya Sutta
Source: Peace and Clarity
Manifest phenomena arise through a combination of causes and conditions in a sequence of interdependent events.Now, since all phenomena are interconnected in this way, it follows that within the realm of relative truth the law of cause and effect is inescapable: positive and negative actions will inevitably result in happiness and suffering.
Once the causes and conditions are present, nothing can prevent the result from being produced, just as in the spring, if there are seeds in the ground and if the sun gives warmth and the rain moisture, flowers and fruit will appear.
That is why we should always be aware of the potential of even the minutest of our actions.
—Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Source: The Minutest Action
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