buddhism

Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances.

One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.

Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.

Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

Yes, K_l_mas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you K_l_mas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, not by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, not by the idea: 'this is our teacher'. But, O K_l_mas, when you know for yourself that certain things are unwholesome, and wrong, and bad, then give them up... And when you know for yourself that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of _ Nothing is left but to love.

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.

The mind is limitless, in its creations.

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

I don__ know where I__ going on this path. I don__ know what I__ doing with my life. You had to be lost, before you could be found. These are the truths. You had to be confused, before you could find clarity; you had to suffer, before you could find peace. These were the only ways, life could happen. Of course you were confused before you found clarity. If you weren't confused, then you would already be clear. Of course you were lost before you were found. If you were already found, then you wouldn't be lost. Of course there would be suffering before peace. If there was already peace, then there wouldn't be suffering. One necessarily came before the other.

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.