| Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours. Love that is untroubled and beyond hatred or enmity. |
1 month, 2 weeks ago |
| Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. — Dhammapada |
3 months, 2 weeks ago |
| #buddhist It is impossible that a monk who delights in a group, enjoys a group, rejoices in a group, will obtain at will — without difficulty, without trouble — the pleasure of renunciation, the pleasure of seclusion, the pleasure of peace, the pleasure of self-awakening |
5 months, 4 weeks ago |
| There is a noble truth about the cessation of suffering. It is the complete fading away and cessation of craving [taṇhā]; its abandonment and relinquishment; getting free from and being independent of it. |
6 months, 2 weeks ago |
| #buddhist https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/05/were-we-happier-in-the-stone-age |
9 months, 2 weeks ago |
| Live in an island of yourself, being your own guide. Take nobody else as the guide. -- Siddhartha Gotama |
10 months, 3 weeks ago |
| Over and over, he tires and he struggles; Over and over, the fool goes to the womb. Over and over, he's born and he dies; Over and over, they bear him to his grave. |
1 year, 3 months ago |
| Just as a lotus grows up in a muddy lake, but rises above the water and stands in full splendor unsoiled by the mud, so does the Wise one, having grown up in the world, overcomes the world and abides in it untainted by its impurities. |
1 year, 7 months ago |