Quotations on Buddhism by BuddhaVac, Year 2018

31/12/2018
Beauty is an expression of order in numbers.

20/12/2018
From birth to death, life oscillates between hope and fear.

10/12/2018
It is the same consciousness flowing in all, but a little different in each.

5/12/2018
Everything that you are or you have is either learned, gathered, imagined, processed or accumulated. There’s nothing more.

5/12/2018
You are a construct of Nature, formed around emptiness. Meditate on emptiness.

30/11/2018
Your consciousness has something of everyone you met, seen or read about. It is a reflection of the world in which you live.

28/11/2018
On the Path to Nirvana
Let your mind and body
Be your monastery.
And let your intelligence
Be your teacher and lamp.

25/11/2018
Seeing things mindfully, this is the first step to awakening. Letting go is the next.

14/11/2018
There’s always an impression, image or memory between you and what you see. Looking beyond that, without the obstruction, is right perception.

14/11/2018
Its rarely that someone sees you, but a memory, feeling, words, image or impression of someone they already know, like or dislike.

9/11/2018

Let your mind and body be the monastery.
Practice discipline.
Meditate upon the causes.
Breathe gently.
Become the witness.

6/11/2018
Do not become stuck in the experiences of life. Life moves on. So should you. To be in the flow, and flow with the flow.

26/10/2018
Be grateful to all those who helped you to be here and now.

19/10/2018
Unburden yourself through detachment. What’s the point of dragging your past with you, and keep blaming yourself?

4/10/2018
There is no love if you seek conformity.

4/10/2018
The “Self” exists because the “Other” exists. The “Other” is the Not Self. If there is no “Other,” there is no “Self.”

25/09/2018
Peace and Harmony become firmly established when you practice universal friendliness (kalyana mitrata) with people, things and situations.

13/09/2018
We are not meant to think alike or be alike.

3/09/2018
We are different faces of an ever changing, unstable reality.

4/9/2018
In the end, you die, and no one really cares. Just remember this, when you make decisions.

3/9/2018
When you are at the center of things, you become involved. But when you step aside and become detached, you have an opportunity to become an observer.

24/07/2018
One of the advantages of being mindful is that you can avoid traffic tickets.

17/07/2018
Beware of the ego. It is always present in some form in both the observer and the observed.

11/7/2018
Consider this. You are part of a whole. Everything is connected. No one is Free.

1/7/2018
At the end of each journey, you are a different person.

27/06/2018
A monk should bear with the silence within, and with the silence from others.

7/6/2018
Our fate or our lives mostly depend not upon the questions we ask, but the answers we give.

31/05/2018
Truths are simple. It is the mind which stands in between.

23/05/2018
In silence, we become wiser, as we bring our attention to the moment.

16/05/2018
You cannot always make unhappy people happy. But you can always show them compassion, and stay calm.

6/5/2018
There’s happiness which springs from enjoyment, and happiness which springs from helping someone. Both are good for our wellbeing.

3/5/2018
Let the relationship be true. In the moment, one person, one relationship.

26/04/2018
The ignorant one is wise among fools, and a fool among the wise.

13/04/2018
He is known as the Buddha because he attained the highest or the purest Buddhi (discernment).

12/4/2018
If “I am” is an illusion, so is God.

10/4/2018
Living by killing, this is the way of Nature. Living by loving, this is the way of the Buddha.

9/4/2018
We are but little swirls in the flow of life. May be some may swirl a little more and catch our attention. But in the end all are swept away.

7/4/2018
Bring mindfulness into your relationships. Your life won’t be the same again.

5/4/2018
No one can argue with silence for long.

2/4/2018
Everything is controlled by something. But there is nothing that controls everything.

1/4/2018
The body is born in the womb, but the person in the mind.

30/03/2018
The mind is a labyrinth of possibilities. We are lost in it. There is only one way out. Nirvana.

23/03/2018
Habits are comfort zones, where the mind finds sanctuary from the uncertainties and anxieties of life.

12/3/2018
What can we learn from Einstein’s Theory of Relativity? That life happens when things slow down.

10/3/2018
There is no fixed path, just the moment.

9/3/2018
Bring universal friendliness, compassion and discerning wisdom into every aspect of your life. The Buddha won’t be far away.

2/3/2018
Forgiveness is an important part of friendliness.

28/02/2018
Words have no meaning, unless you pay them attention.

23/02/2018
In thought, you go faraway from yourself. In silence, you come closer and become wiser.

17/02/2018
Feeling the feeling and letting go of it when it has spent itself, this is the way of the monk who is free and detached.

6/2/2018
We usually do not appreciate the things we have, until they are gone.

20/01/2018
Life wears us down and hems us in. In that little space, which life offers to everyone, one must find purpose, peace and happiness.

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