Don't Lose The Spark

Don't lose the spark that makes you ... YOU.

Control and Self-Control

Irrigators direct the water,
Fletchers fashion the shaft,
Carpenters bend the wood,
The wise control themselves.
- The Buddha

SOURCE: Daily Words of the Buddha

LEFTOVER FOOD AND KARMA

When you throw away the left overs of your food, do it thinking that, these I give to the hungry animals. That merit can be beneficial for you, for hundred lives to come…

Source: Buddhism - Path to Peace

Sticking To Notions Of I And Mine

By sticking to notions of 'I' and 'mine' and blindly following the feelings of attraction and repulsion to which these notions give rise, we accumulate negative karma. Let us stop doing that!

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

 

from the book "The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most"
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True vision and understanding

 

When your mind doesn’t stir inside,

the world doesn’t arise outside.

When the world and the mind are

both transparent, this is true vision.

And such understanding is true

understanding.

 

(Bodhidharma)

Inner Peace

Forgiving and Peace