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Children deserve the best from us—they deserve the highest consideration as impressionable people. - Raffi Cavoukian
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I don’t think that Buddhism is only for adults. It is better that our children begin to sit when they are young. Sometimes I notice that children understand Buddhism more quickly than adults. They have less prejudices. Their minds are very fresh. I put a lot of my time into teaching children because I see more effectiveness in that work. - Thich Nhat Hanh
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It would be a mistake to think that kids don’t need Buddhism or that we can simply wait until they’re old enough to join a meditation center. Children’s lives are full of stress and pain, just as adult lives are — is there any greater hell realm than junior high school? - Jeff Wilson
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Buddhism’s First Noble Truth states: ‘Life is Suffering.’ That’s a scary, pessimistic worldview. But it’s also an honest one. Our lives are filled with the inescapable suffering of birth, aging, sickness, and death. We lose friends, gain enemies, lose things we want to keep, and gain things we’d rather lose. - Alex Kakuyo
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Rational apprehension of dangers is necessary; fear is not. - Bertrand Russell
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You can measure the depth of a person’s awakening by how they serve others.
- Kukai
- Kukai
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We each carry kammic dispositions communicated to us from past lives: our responses to sensual stimulation, to irritation or insult, to fear; how we order
our lives or array the things in our room, how we like to spend our time, what we value. Where else would these dispositions come from? - Bhikkhu Cintita
our lives or array the things in our room, how we like to spend our time, what we value. Where else would these dispositions come from? - Bhikkhu Cintita
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When we aspire to become vital to the world and well-used by the world, rather than trying to lead the good life and succeeding for only our own benefit, we will be happy and be helpful to the world at the same time. Then happiness will be a reality rather than a dream. This is also the way for us to exercise our right to be happy.
- Pomnyun Sunim
- Pomnyun Sunim
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Anybody who is born into this world has a right to be happy. Our happiness will be whole only when the individual’s mental attitude (the seed) and social conditions (the field) are cultivated together. - Pomnyun Sunim
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It is vulgar to want things in complete sets. It is incompleteness that is desirable. - Bishop Francois de Laval