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When making offerings, the persons making them also receive what is given. For example, offering water may bring a calm mind, flowers a sense of beauty. Incense helps connect you to the earth, while firelit candles create illumination and symbolize destroying the darkness of ignorance. Inherent in each offering is a simultaneous giving and receiving of these gifts. - Earthlyn Manuel
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Life is wonderful. Truly, what is it I lack? Nothing. It’s so simple. - Maura O'Halloran
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Where Christianity preaches original sin, Buddhism preaches original enlightenment. - Maura O'Halloran
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Your state of mind is the most important factor in the outcome of your life. - Chris Prentiss
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Flowers have no choice but to blossom. - Maura O'Halloran
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The mind is more than a sense organ, but it is one of them. Its sensations, perceptions, and volitions need not be grasped and elaborated upon. We can choose the level of attention they require. They can be briefly noted and allowed to disperse, like rolling clouds. - Tashi Nyima
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Among the thoughts identified as unskillful are restlessness, agitation, conceit, jealousy, guilt, pride, cynicism, greed, miserliness, thoughts of revenge, spite, envy, grumpiness, ill-will, anger, hate, rage, sorrow, fear, bias, delusion, stubbornness, narrow-mindedness, torpor, complacency, affection, and lust.
Among those identified as skillful are generosity, renunciation, kindness, compassion, patience, intelligence, discernment, shame, rectitude (rightness of conduct), mindfulness, concentration, equanimity, pliancy, buoyancy, conviction, open-mindedness, composure, proficiency and gladness for the good fortune of others. - Bhikkhu Cintita
Among those identified as skillful are generosity, renunciation, kindness, compassion, patience, intelligence, discernment, shame, rectitude (rightness of conduct), mindfulness, concentration, equanimity, pliancy, buoyancy, conviction, open-mindedness, composure, proficiency and gladness for the good fortune of others. - Bhikkhu Cintita
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Buddhism does not consider the undertaking of ascetic practices and austerities as a necessary prerequisite for liberation. Austere practices however, do have a place in the Buddhadharma, but they must always be chosen voluntarily and preferably be time-limited.
Sleeping on the floor is one such austere practice. When younger, the floor was my trusted friend in austerity. In old age, rising from the floor became difficult. - Tashi Nyima
Sleeping on the floor is one such austere practice. When younger, the floor was my trusted friend in austerity. In old age, rising from the floor became difficult. - Tashi Nyima
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Yoga can take years off your face and years from your body – and add years to your life.
- Desmond Dunne
- Desmond Dunne
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When you are practicing a pose in yoga, can you find the delicate balance between taking the pose to its maximum extent, and taking it beyond that point so that there is too much effort creating wrong tension in the body. - BKS Iyengar