In this world, nothing is as dear to someone as his or her own life, so there is no greater crime than taking life away, and no conditioned virtue brings greater merit than the act of saving beings and ransoming their lives.
šChatral Rinpoche, The Benefits of Saving Lives
Im not sure what to think, drinking my coffee.
Is this all worthless or purposeful, my nervousness.
Got me high like a livewire, planet earth.
I want to choose life, not suicidal quite.
But the scitzo-effective symptoms with no remedy.
Trying to be the end of me.
Try to live on and see dawn.
My Buddhist ideology makes me think that we can respawn.
That this goes on and on. I could be wrong.
No more meat and dairy not at all.
No alcohol…
So I hope I can go to a good place
I wonder. What would it take?
Take me away from pain sustained in a new way.
by Tashi Nyima
chatralrinpoche
To obtain real peace and happiness in this world, one has simply to follow the path of ahimsa ānonviolence.
If we do not like to experience any kind of pain or suffering, how can we expect another creature, whether big or small, to feel otherwise?
There is no better prayer or service we can offer to the Buddha than being thoughtful, kind, and compassionate, and abstaining from taking the life of any fellow human being, animal, bird, fish or insect.
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Source: Real Peace & Happiness
Art by Giulia
āTHEREāS A REVOLUTION THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN AND IT STARTS FROM INSIDE EACH ONE OF US. WE NEED TO WAKE UP AND FALL IN LOVE WITH EARTH. WEāVE BEEN HOMO SAPIENS FOR A LONG TIME. NOW ITāS TIME TO BECOME HOMO CONSCIOUS. OUR LOVE AND ADMIRATION FOR THE EARTH HAS THE POWER TO UNITE US AND REMOVE ALL BOUNDARIES, SEPARATION AND DISCRIMINATION. CENTURIES OF INDIVIDUALISM AND COMPETITION HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT TREMENDOUS DESTRUCTION AND ALIENATION. WE NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH TRUE COMMUNICATIONāTRUE COMMUNIONāWITH OURSELVES, WITH THE EARTH, AND WITH ONE ANOTHER AS CHILDREN OF THE SAME MOTHER. WE NEED MORE THAN NEW TECHNOLOGY TO PROTECT THE PLANET. WE NEED REAL COMMUNITY AND CO-OPERATION.ā ~THICH NHAT HANH ā UNDER THE BLUE DOOR
All forms of cruelty and exploitation are blatant manifestations of self-cherishing, and strengthen our dualistic wrong view of separation, the perceived antagonism between self and other. Callous disregard for the life and well-being of other sentient beings prevents spiritual progress, because it is based on the assumption that we are somehow more important, and ourĀ [ā¦]
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