Daily Dhamma Archives
Guarantees
There are no guarantees in life. Sometimes we just have to take a leap of faith.
Right Mind
Right Mind in our practice leads the way for us to overcome suffering and to achieve spiritual freedom.
Change and Acceptance
We have to do our best in every situation as it occurs. We have to have the wisdom to differentiate between what can be changed and what must be accepted. Whilst knowing that this too will pass.
Stillness
To be still is to be conscious without thought. When we are still we are beyond our temporal existence; consciousness--unconditioned and formless.
Real Life
Real life is the present moment and not found in memories of the past nor in dreams of the future.. One who lives in the present moment lives the real life.
Within
Real happiness is found within, and not to be defined in terms of wealth, power, honours or conquests.
Kamma
The present is the offspring of the past, and becomes, in turn, the parent of the future.
Taste For Yourself
Dont just go and believe in the teacher because he says a fruit is sweet and delicious. Taste it for yourself and then all the doubting will be over.
Thirst
As long as there is a thirst to be and to become the cycle of continuity ( Samsara) goes on. It can stop only when its driving force, this thirst, is cut off through wisdom which sees reality and truth.
Level and Balanced
Water always finds its own level, it is never slanted or leaning. It teaches us to go with the flow of life's changes and not to stagnate beneath the weight of our desires and opinions.
Reality
The ego loves its resentment of reality. What is reality ? Whatever is.
Ego
Do not fuel the drama anymore which is part of all egoic relationships. What is its fuel? Re-activity, the ego thrives on it !
Refuge
Buddhists take refuge in the Buddha not out of fear of him, but to gain inspiration and right understanding for their self purification.
Recollection
The recollection of the Buddha produces joy, invigorates the mind and elevates men from states of restlessness, tension and frustration.
Great Love
Great love is the wish that all living beings, without exception, have happiness and the causes of happiness. It is the love that embraces all beings without discrimination.
Mind and Matter ( Nama-Rupa )
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Look Within
All growth is from within. This is evident in all nature. Every plant, every animal, every human being is a testimony to this great law. But in error we keep searching on the outside when we could be looking within.
Power
Without wisdom, power is blind. Without love, power is cold and self serving. Wisdom and love (Metta) should be evident in our daily lives.
Desire
Dont spoil what you have by desiring what you dont have. Remember that what you now have was the thing you once wished for.
Distance
Dont hang out with angry people because anger, like joy and gratitude, is contagious. We must keep our distance.
Wise words
There is a proverb; Anger is the wind that blows out the lamp of the mind.
Anger
Avoid anger like the plague. Anger completely wilts the most carefully cultivated garden of love.
Truth
When we open our minds to truth, we realize that there is nothing to fear. We see that what arises passes away and is not self.
Dhamma Practice
Dhamma practice is not restricted to certain times and places. In one form or another, it is always possible right here and right now.
Life
The nature of life brings highs and lows and twists and turns. If we can always react to life's changes by following the Middle Way then these occurrences become easier to deal with.
Change
We can all change for the better through meditation and by living our lives with the Five Precepts as our guide.
