The Guts To Do No Harm!
Even if villains were to saw off your limbs, never stop embracing with your heart!
Cried More Tears Than Can Be Surfed Upon!
We have cried more tears and suckled more milk than can be surfed upon; in all this transmigration without a discernible beginning! It’s quite enough to make one disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions. A surfer doesn’t defy this wave of mutilation by diving into it. A surfer defies the wave by keeping their balance and stillness despite it. It can be done, but it takes a practice.
The Story of Angulimala
“Everyone wants to point a finger! But it’s everyone that shares the blame! If you are looking for it, everyone gives you a reason to put a knife in them! If you are looking for it, everyone shows you where! That’s how things get stopped, ascetic!” shouted Angulimala
Themes for Daily Buddhist Contemplation!
This is a list of daily contemplations suggested the by Buddha!
Jaradhammomhi: I am of the nature to grow OLD!
Byadhidhammomhi: I am of the nature to get SICK!
Maranadhammomhi: I am of the nature to DIE!
Sabbehi me piyehi manapehi nanabhavo vinabhavo: Everything pleasing-charming to me becomes different, becomes not so!
Kinsmen of the Sun!
Young grief stricken Singala washed himself in the water among the crowd of yogis making their ablution. Quietly he waited for the dawn with the these Kinsmen of the Sun; and did his best to imitate their asanas. Sobriety and emotions made his body shudder.
“Householder’s son, why are you revering the quarters in this way?”
Singala replied, “Sir, on his deathbed my father said to me: ‘My dear, please revere the quarters.’ Honoring, respecting, and venerating my father’s words, I rose early and left Rajagaha; now with my clothes and hair all wet, I raise my joined palms to revere the various quarters—east, south, west, north, below, and above!”