- Published on
The world needs another Buddha. You qualify. Here are three simple, straightforward steps for becoming a Buddha.
1. Accept the truth that you have Buddha nature. You are not a sinner in need of salvation but a budding Buddha.
2. Cultivate and grow your inner Buddha. This means engaging in meditation - alone and with a group of spiritual friends. It means reading, studying and learning from the masters. Finally, it means acting like a Buddha by exhibiting awareness, kindness, compassion and sharing wisdom with others.
3. Manifest, fully, your Buddha nature. Become like a mountain. No matter how the mountain is treated it remains. Nature unleashes fury upon mountains - rains, floods, fires. Human's mistreat mountains - they tramp on them, defecate on them, exploit them. Through it all the mountain remains.
Finally, continue to repeat steps one and two until they are no longer necessary and your response to everyone and everything around you is like a mountain: solid, strong, stable.
1. Accept the truth that you have Buddha nature. You are not a sinner in need of salvation but a budding Buddha.
2. Cultivate and grow your inner Buddha. This means engaging in meditation - alone and with a group of spiritual friends. It means reading, studying and learning from the masters. Finally, it means acting like a Buddha by exhibiting awareness, kindness, compassion and sharing wisdom with others.
3. Manifest, fully, your Buddha nature. Become like a mountain. No matter how the mountain is treated it remains. Nature unleashes fury upon mountains - rains, floods, fires. Human's mistreat mountains - they tramp on them, defecate on them, exploit them. Through it all the mountain remains.
Finally, continue to repeat steps one and two until they are no longer necessary and your response to everyone and everything around you is like a mountain: solid, strong, stable.
- Published on
Spiritual strength is positive energy and emotion in our heart. When we feel this positive energy in us, then we are blessed with spiritual strength. - Hsing Yun
- Published on
I will be silent when it is time to listen.
I will be silent if my words convey the wrong impression.
I will be silent when in the heat of anger.
I will be silent if I would regret my words later.
I will be silent if my words will offend someone.
I will be silent when I do not know all the facts.
I will be silent if my words could damage a friendship.
I will be silent when I am feeling critical.
I will be silent if I cannot say it peacefully.
—Garchen Rinpoche
I will be silent if my words convey the wrong impression.
I will be silent when in the heat of anger.
I will be silent if I would regret my words later.
I will be silent if my words will offend someone.
I will be silent when I do not know all the facts.
I will be silent if my words could damage a friendship.
I will be silent when I am feeling critical.
I will be silent if I cannot say it peacefully.
—Garchen Rinpoche
- Published on
There are simply no Buddhas who spend all their time sitting in meditation. Buddhas are buddhas precisely because they continually ponder and take action to help others. - Daisaku Ikeda
- Published on
(public domain photo www.pixabay.com)
In addition to being extremely tasty, homemade rye bread (most of the rye bread sold commercially is that healthy) brings these benefits:
- Improves cardiovascular health
- Reduces cholesterol
- Prevents certain cancers
- Aids in weight loss
- Reduces the risk of diabetes
- High in fiber
- Aids in better digestion
- Is more filling than other breads
- Published on
Mantras are prescribed syllables to protect the mind. Mantra recitation is very powerful in purifying negative karmic imprints on our mind stream. - Thubten Chodron
- Published on
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. - Alan Watts
- Published on
Be aware that whenever we use the phrase “I thought . . .” it’s usually because of a negative event which has emerged because we were not properly mindful. For example – I thought the light was green. I thought it wouldn’t happen. I thought it would be all right. I thought no one would know. I thought it was safe. There’s another issue with the phrase “I thought” and it is this: we often use it as an excuse to evade responsibility for our actions. It is highly advisable and skillful to be extraordinarily mindful so that occasions never arise when we resort to the phrase “I thought.”
- Published on
An ancient text from the Jain religion – Tattva Artha Suytra – provides this list of nine signs of a person who is enlightened.
- Guarding one’s speech
- Guarding one’s thoughts
- Care in walking
- Care in lifting and laying down things
- Careful inspection of one’s food and drink
- Benevolence toward all beings
- Delight in all beings
- Compassion for all beings
- Patience toward those who are misguided in their behavior
- Published on
You must be very regular in your practice of meditation. Even if you do not realize any tangible results in the practice, your must plot on with faith, sincerity, patience, earnestness and perseverance. - Swami Sivananda