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This should be a simple question with a simple “yes, I want to be a sage!’ Yet, most people are fools and this includes many who follow a Buddhist path. Look at the reality and the difference between a sage and a fool
Sages look within and use their minds to solve their problems. They understand that everything they need for dealing with life can be found within.
Fools seek help from outside. They pray to the Buddha and other deities asking for wealth, health, security, and relief from problems rather than strengthening their minds.
Sages cultivate the mind more than the body. While both are important, all things begin in the mind so they develop mind management to deal with life’s poisons. Anger is replaced with patience; greed with generosity; ignorance or stupidity with wisdom.
Fools develop the body while completely neglecting the mind. Placing a total focus on a healthy body while the mind become weaker and sicker is counterproductive.
Sages develop spiritual friendships. They associate with people on a spiritual path providing mutual support, encouragement and accountability.
Fools have friendships but exclusively at levels which are superficial, frivolous, and one-dimensional. They have friends with whom they party, drink, use recreational drugs but no friends who offer spiritual insight and companionship.
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Sages look within and use their minds to solve their problems. They understand that everything they need for dealing with life can be found within.
Fools seek help from outside. They pray to the Buddha and other deities asking for wealth, health, security, and relief from problems rather than strengthening their minds.
Sages cultivate the mind more than the body. While both are important, all things begin in the mind so they develop mind management to deal with life’s poisons. Anger is replaced with patience; greed with generosity; ignorance or stupidity with wisdom.
Fools develop the body while completely neglecting the mind. Placing a total focus on a healthy body while the mind become weaker and sicker is counterproductive.
Sages develop spiritual friendships. They associate with people on a spiritual path providing mutual support, encouragement and accountability.
Fools have friendships but exclusively at levels which are superficial, frivolous, and one-dimensional. They have friends with whom they party, drink, use recreational drugs but no friends who offer spiritual insight and companionship.
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Do not become overly conscious of the negative in you, but learn to recognize what is potentially positive in your personality. - Swam Jyotirmayananda
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When you let go of grasping, you can experience something else. - Buddhist Wisdom
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Several years ago when a Zen student was killed at the age of 22 in San Francisco, Dainin Katagiri, a teacher at the center attended by the young man, reminded his mourning friends: "“Human beings have an idea they are fond of—that we die in old age. That’s just an idea. We don’t know when our death will come. Chris’s death has come now.” Today, bring to your mind the truth that old age is not a guarantee and try to live wisely. Dainin Katagiri himself died at the relative young age of 62.
The point: make each day and every phase of your life as meaningful as possible. Don't wait, don't delay, don't hold off.
The point: make each day and every phase of your life as meaningful as possible. Don't wait, don't delay, don't hold off.
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The best internet connection cannot compare with an inner connection to the Cosmic Mind that is the repository of all knowledge in the universe. - David Frawley
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Football players don’t fit the mold of a yogi , someone who regularly practices yoga. They’re large athletes with sculpted muscles from countless hours of lifting and conditioning. Most do not look capable of the contortions required of the ancient discipline, such as standing on one foot with the other propped up on their knee in a tree pose for an extended period without falling over.
Yet in recent years, the presence of yoga has grown in the NFL. The fast-paced, hard-hitting sport has accepted the more calming practice that emphasizes conscious breathing and body flow. Much like yin and yang, the two complement each other both mentally and physically.
“Obviously (yoga) helps with flexibility, what we call join integrity, discipline, focus and balance,” said Los Angeles Chargers Director of Football/Medical Services James Collins, an NFL athletic trainer for 31 years. “It has a lot of different entities to it. And one thing about professional football players is that if you explain something to them and give them the science and reasoning behind it, you can get them to buy into it.”
source - https://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/17/nfl-players-yoga-practice/
Yet in recent years, the presence of yoga has grown in the NFL. The fast-paced, hard-hitting sport has accepted the more calming practice that emphasizes conscious breathing and body flow. Much like yin and yang, the two complement each other both mentally and physically.
“Obviously (yoga) helps with flexibility, what we call join integrity, discipline, focus and balance,” said Los Angeles Chargers Director of Football/Medical Services James Collins, an NFL athletic trainer for 31 years. “It has a lot of different entities to it. And one thing about professional football players is that if you explain something to them and give them the science and reasoning behind it, you can get them to buy into it.”
source - https://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/17/nfl-players-yoga-practice/
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People, according to the Buddha, are born equal in nature. High or low, noble or ignoble, good or bad depends upon each one’s moral conduct and spiritual purification.
- Saneh Dhammavaro
- Saneh Dhammavaro
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Writing for Lion's Roar magazine, Richard Gere writes about a moment when the Dalai Lama impacted and inspired him:
"I remember having an intimate conversation with His Holiness many years ago. At one point he touched the tip of his tongue and quietly said, 'This tongue has never lied.' What a simple and astonishing statement. It cut right through me. It would be quite unthinkable to believe such a clear and dignified declaration from anyone these days. Deception, self-interest, greed, violence, corruption, and alternate truths are all sadly deemed acceptable, and even expected. Even the President of the United States stands naked in his foolishness. Language has become hollow. Words themselves have lost their sacredness. Grace, kindness, and simple dignity are ridiculed as politically correct."
"I remember having an intimate conversation with His Holiness many years ago. At one point he touched the tip of his tongue and quietly said, 'This tongue has never lied.' What a simple and astonishing statement. It cut right through me. It would be quite unthinkable to believe such a clear and dignified declaration from anyone these days. Deception, self-interest, greed, violence, corruption, and alternate truths are all sadly deemed acceptable, and even expected. Even the President of the United States stands naked in his foolishness. Language has become hollow. Words themselves have lost their sacredness. Grace, kindness, and simple dignity are ridiculed as politically correct."
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Daily, constantly practicing to benefit others, attaining Buddhahood does not come from giving money. Bodhi is found within the mind. Why bother looking for the extraordinary outside? - Huineng
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An article in the Washington Post had this headline: "You might thing there are more vegetarians than ever. You'd be wrong." Cited were these stats showing the level of vegetarians has not increased in several decades: "The number of Americans who self-identify as vegetarian or vegan has remained steady over the past 20 years — and it’s still a pretty small group, according to a recent Gallup poll. Five percent of Americans identify as vegetarian, a rate that has remained unchanged since the previous survey in 2012. In 1999, when the survey was first taken, as well as in 2001, 6 percent of Americans identified as vegetarian. Rates of veganism have followed a similar trajectory. This year, 3 percent of respondents identified as vegan — a slight increase from 2 percent in 2012."
However, those statistics don't provide a complete picture because other numbers indicate that the number of people eating less and less meat - flexitarians - is definitely on the increase. A recent British study found that one third of diners in the United Kingdom are meatless. And there are more options than ever before: Market research firm Mintel found that the number of new vegetarian products introduced to the market doubled between 2009 and 2013. According to Gallup, sales of plant-based food grew 8.1 percent in 2017 and exceeded $3.1 billion last year.
Furthermore, there is ample evidence which indicates that merely reducing meat consumption brings health benefits to the body as well as to the planet.
However, those statistics don't provide a complete picture because other numbers indicate that the number of people eating less and less meat - flexitarians - is definitely on the increase. A recent British study found that one third of diners in the United Kingdom are meatless. And there are more options than ever before: Market research firm Mintel found that the number of new vegetarian products introduced to the market doubled between 2009 and 2013. According to Gallup, sales of plant-based food grew 8.1 percent in 2017 and exceeded $3.1 billion last year.
Furthermore, there is ample evidence which indicates that merely reducing meat consumption brings health benefits to the body as well as to the planet.