é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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You maybe having a good life but do evil things, good life will end.
You maybe having a bad life but do good things, your life will change from bad to good.
Master Miao Lian
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Understanding karma & dharma enable you to change your life to a better one.
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The reason why we suffer about
death is because we aren’t able to
accept how things are and so we
have fear. But I think if we are able
to accept this as a natural part of our
lives then that will decrease the
amount of suffering.
~ 17th Karmapa ~
As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end. Yet death is unpredictable: We do not know when or how it will take place. So it is only sensible to take certain precautions before it actually happens.
- THE DALAI LAMA
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People outside may call us mad to live in the forest like this, sitting like statues. But how do they live ? They, laugh, they cry, they are so caught up that at times they kill themselves or one another out of greed and hatred, Who are the mad ones ?
- Venerable Ajahn Chah
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Look at this living beings..
Thinking ‘ME’ and ‘MINE’..
They struggle like fish on the ground..
Diagnosing this sickness of “ME and MINE”
Wise ones live without clinging to anything..!
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You can lose anything but time. If you have wasted the opportunity to practice in this lifetime, don't hope that you can be a human again in your next lifetime.
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Meditation is not to escape from society,
but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on.
Once there is seeing, there must be acting.
With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.
我们往往å�‘外看，我们应该å¦ä¹ å�‘内看 _/|\_
Enlightenment for a wave in the ocean is the moment the wave realises that it is water."
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To end the cycles of rebirth in samsara is the main purpose of being a human being.
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When you get hurt, say, by an
arrow, that is pain. The arrow hitting
your arm, it hurts. Pain. However,
there is a second arrow, which is
your reaction to the arrow, the
getting angry, the planning revenge,
that is beyond pain, that is
suffering.
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"Right now we are sitting in a peaceful forest. Here, if there's no wind, a leaf remains still. When a wind blows it flaps and flutters. The mind is similar to that leaf. When it contacts a mental impression, it, too, ''flaps and flutters'' according to the nature of that mental impression. And the less we know of Dhamma, the more the mind will continually pursue mental impressions. Feeling happy, it succumbs to happiness. Feeling suffering, it succumbs to suffering. It's constant confusion!"
(Ajahn Chah)
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The Buddhas are perfectly capable
'Teachers of Humans and Gods'
as they have perfected their humanity
and transcended the compassion and wisdom
of even the greatest yet unenlightened gods.
– Anonone
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