buddha

To each his own. A billion Buddhas. A billion streams of wisdom. All smiling in their anguish.

The Buddha__ criteria for Wise Speech include__n addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful_ that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Remember my words: Be truthful, be kind to one another, and you will attain peace. We will meet again in another life.

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha__ path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

The Buddha said that there are three times that a person should consider the consequences of any action: before, during, and after. __ne should reflect thus,_ he said. ___s what I am about to do . . ._ or __s what I am currently doing . . ._ or __s what I just did . . . for my own well-being and for the benefit of all others?

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts_of resentment are forgotten.

Why say then Buddha never carried gun? he didn't play piano, we do not know of him making pictures either.

There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not seek anything else.

You see pictures of Buddha and he__ sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.

One particular aspect of Siddhartha__ revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at arm__ length from multiplicity.

Blossoms shower, and then they go on showering__hey never stop. The blossoms that showered for Buddha are still showering. The blossoms that showered for Subhuti are still showering.

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Two thousand and five hundred years ago Lord Buddha announced, __y self- exertion we will achieve __irvana_, and then Hinduism announced, __y self-mortification and self-exertion we shall achieve the supreme knowledge. But this supreme knowledge means knowledge of oneness. No, not the knowledge of oneness, it is rather oneness only and that is achieved spontaneously.

Buddha lets me see the world in color so that I can appreciate its color.Just as God too lets you see the color of beauty in the world.And so too with Allah because he lets you see the beauty in everything.....I cannot begin to understand all religions, but I know one thing.Color brings love into our world regardless of who we are; what we preach or what we believe in.And to me, that is the only truth that I know.

The perfume of incense reminds us of the pervading influence of virtue, the lamp reminds us of light of knowledge and the flowers which soon fade and die, reminds us of impermanence. When we bow, we express our gratitude to the Buddha for what his teachings have given us. This is the nature of Buddhist worship.

This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.

If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.