Quotations on Buddhism by BuddhaVac, Year 2017

29/12/2017
We like people who are like us. That is self love expressing itself.

28/12/2017
Your opinion of others is always tinged with your opinion of yourself.

21/12/2017
The prejudice and divisions begin with names because your name is associated with your faith or ethnicity or culture or geography or gender.

15/12/2017
Wake up. Yesterday is gone. Today is awaiting.

7/12/2017
The past is a graveyard of memories. The future is a distant cloud. The present is just a moment that comes and goes.

6/12/2017
The memory of a person outlasts the death of the person. It is from there myths are made.

1/12/2017
The ignorant one seeks attention. The mindful one pays attention. One path leads to suffering, and the other to discernment and Nirvana.

27/11/2017
A teacher can only teach, but the decision to learn rests with the student.

27/11/2017
When things are heated, they remain heated for sometime. So is the case with anger.

23/11/2017
Virtue is difficult to cultivate. Vice is difficult to overcome.

22/11/2017
Aging is the most chronic, incurable and universal sickness in this world. It inflicts the sentient as well as the non-sentient.

4/11/2017
Karma connects people, and karma separates them.

1/11/2017
Most of the time, the conflict, friendship or enmity is with the image or the memory of the person we remember, not with the person as such.

30/10/2017
Some truths hurt. Some lies hurt even more.

29/10/2017
Trust is the foundation of any relationship. Without it, there’s nothing to hold the relationship, except fear, forgiveness or self interest.

27/10/2017
Begin the day with thoughts and feelings of love and compassion as a morning mental ablution to fill your mind with positive vibrations.

26/10/2017
Having renounced earthly delights and the fire of desire, a steadfast monk settles into the vessel of life like water without complaint and breathes free air with a serene mind.

23/10/2017
But then change is what brings randomness into play and creates possibilities and opportunities. It throws a wrench into the wheel of fate.

23/10/2017
When you want change, you must be prepared for all consequences.

19/10/2017
In this world we are all trying to solve the puzzle called life in our own ways, and finally we all end up at the same place without ever knowing it.

16/10/2017
Accepting your emotions without judgment and any associated guilt is the first step to self-acceptance and self-transformation.

15/10/2017
A smile can be pretentious, but anger is rarely.

10/10/2017
Worship the Buddha
Not to earn his Grace,
But to Engage in good karma
And Remember his teaching.

28/09/2017
Impermanence is also a blessing. Otherwise, we will be stuck forever in a rut, with no hope for change, improvement or Nirvana.

9/9/2017
Meditation is just what it is, meditation.

1/9/2017
Your actions are like boomerangs. They come back to you with lessons of their own.

1/9/2017
The mind is an obstacle when we are ignorant and deluded, and the mind is a facilitator when we have intelligence and discerning wisdom.

25/08/2017
If you're NOT feeling your feelings and emotions, you're disconnected from yourself. You are Alive but not Awake, in the world but not in you.

20/08/2017
The problem is the solution
When You understand the problem.

19/08/2017
The Buddha Is not a Person
Or a Name. The Buddha
Is not God Or a Heavenly Being.
The Buddha Is a State of
Knowing Being and Seeing.

18/08/2017
Nurture The Love that gives
The Compassion that heals
The Knowledge that frees
The Seeing that discerns and
The Conduct that leads to Nirvana

16/08/2017
If hate is hidden in the heart,
Hate becomes self evident
Through speech and actions.
If compassion, compassion.
You give what you have.

14/08/2017
Each life on earth
Is a unique story
We never know.
Except a few.
Even they, hardly.

4/8/2017
We don't know what
May happen tomorrow.
We're unsure what
Happened yesterday.
Still it's reason enough to be
Alive active and persistent.

1/8/2017
A house without loving and caring people is an empty house.

27/07/2017
What is the lesson for today? Slow Down. Slow Down. Take a breath and look around.

24/07/2017
What we need most today is compassion. Only compassion will save the planet and the humanity.

20/07/2017
A photographer needs the instinct of a hunter, the patience of a mother and the compassion of a monk.

17/07/2017
There are essentially two truths about everything, the truth in it itself and the truth which is knowable. They're usually not the same.

14/07/2017
Pay the dues of karma, but do not accumulate the debt. It is the way to lighten yourself for the enlightenment.

10/7/2017
In life, you have two fundamental choices, what life wants to give you or what you can get from it.

10/7/2017
Show gratitude to older people and be courteous when you meet them. Show gratitude to those who passed away. For it's on the foundations they built, we enjoy peace and prosperity.

8/7/2017
The world is like a treadmill. Once on it, you can't stop, unless you step aside.

5/7/2017
The idea of eternal soul is mind's defense against the fear of impermanence. To overcome fear, establish the mind in the idea of Not Self.

4/7/2017
When you think others are happier than you, you may not feel good. But when you see no one is free from suffering, you will feel compassion.

3/7/2017
From mindfulness arises discernment. With discernment only you can practice the Eightfold Path.

30/06/2017
When two people go to a movie, they do not necessarily watch the same one.

27/06/2017
Living as if you do not exist and do not matter, yet striving for perfection on the righteous path, that is the true mark of renunciation.

16/06/2017
If you want to improve some aspect of your life or circumstances, begin with small changes.

30/05/2017
If you expect "THE ANSWER" to any existential question, you are bound to be disappointed.

20/05/2017
Soft spoken gentle and contented, the steadfast monk stands firmly on the raft of life in the ocean of Samsara, swayed by neither emotions nor suffering.

10/5/2017
You resurrect the true Masters each time you practice their wisdom. It's the only resurrection I know for sure.

10/5/2017
The Buddha's body perished long ago. But the Buddha still lives on, illuminating the minds of many.

9/5/2017
The purpose of meditation is Direct Perception, which is perception with clarity and without hindrances such as attachment and delusion.

5/5/2017
Giving without attachment or expectation, this is the highest giving (dana).

4/5/2017
Whatever you do with love, care and compassion prevails, lasts longer and transforms whomever it touches.

29/04/2017
In the imperfections of life are all the possibilities.

29/04/2017
Let's be Bodhisattvas, the guardians of the world, helping the little creatures and the helpless ones survive and saving them from destruction.

16/04/2017
You have some powers, strengths and abilities. Use them wisely.

11/4/2017
Out of a multitude of possibilities at any given moment one possibility becomes the reality. Existence is so fluid, uncertain and impermanent.

9/4/2017
Compassion should not just be an emotion which one occasionally feels. It has to be a way of life for the Buddha mind to manifest.

18/03/2017
In existence, there is order in chaos, and chaos in order, so that in life there is scope for both hope and uncertainty.

18/03/2017
Take your life into any direction. It will eventually resolve itself into a pattern or a story, as your mind weaves its own narrative and connects the dots.

17/03/2017
You are truly free, only when you are not disturbed by anything.

17/03/2017
Love the people in your life, but without becoming too attached. Eventually, they all will leave you, or you will leave them.

17/03/2017
Life eventually resolves itself into two possibilities: Death or Salvation.

11/3/2017
The mind is not bound to Time although the body is. You can go back and forth in your mind as you wish. You imagination is open to all possibilities, just as the universe. Just as the universe, your mind has no set boundaries. What may hold you back are fear and disbelief.

3/3/2017
Meditation is taking your thoughts for a walk in search of yourself.

3/3/2017
The train in which you start the journey to go somewhere is not the same train from which you get down when it reaches the destination.

27/02/2017
Right now what can you change for better? Change that! It is by doing what you can, you make progress.

21/02/2017
Make each day a better day in some way.

16/02/2017
When the "I" goes out of the window, we all are the same.

6/2/2017
What has passed is not necessarily superior. What is yet to come is not necessarily inferior. Coming and going, it is the nature of existence.

22/01/2017
You're a moment in the life of the Planet, and not even a fleeting thought in that of the universe. Yet, in that little time so much life happens.

21/01/2017
The mind is where the Buddha is hidden. It is from where the possibilities of Nirvana begin like little streams, and gather momentum on the Eightfold Path to coalesce into a river.

20/01/2017
True compassion is being kind to other people's imperfections, suffering and shortcomings.

17/01/2017
With material wealth you may make others happy for awhile. But with spiritual wealth you can show them the right Way to be happy with or without wealth.

15/01/2017
On the way to my home, three birds are gathering food, and one dog is immersed in sniffing the grass.

4/1/2017
Aren't you that wonderful person, which you are already, yet still want to be? Accepting who you are is more imp than chasing an illusion of who you want to be.

2/1/2017
May all those who are striving to achieve success somewhere, somehow, in whatever they choose to, may they all succeed in their efforts.

1/1/2017
If you are suffering, know that you are a good person. The truth is Good people suffer more because that suffering has a purpose.

Quotations on Buddhism by BuddhaVac, Year 2016