Daily Dhamma Archives
Precepts
By observing precepts, not only do you cultivate your moral strength, but you also perform the highest service to your fellow beings.
Protecting
Protecting oneself one protects others. Protecting others one protects oneself.
Wise Men
Buddha said " Wise men give no credence to passing theories. They are past believing everything they see and hear."
Power
Without wisdom, power is blind.
Buddhas last message
" When I am gone, my Teaching shall be your Master and your Guide "
A Mountain
As a mountain of solid rock remains unshaken by the storm, so the wise man remains unmoved by praise or blame.
Responsibility
When a man has learned how to live as a real human being, without disturbing others, he can then live peacefully, without any fear in his heart.
Strengthening The Mind
Strengthening the mind is not done by making it move around as is done to strengthen the body, but by bringing the mind to a halt, bringing it to rest.
Conduct
Conduct builds character. No one can bestow the gift of a good character upon another.Each one has to build it up by thought, reflection, care, effort, mindfulness and concentrated activity.
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.
