FULL MOON – Seeking Contentment
Published May 06, 2020 06:00
To harm living beings
who, like us, seek contentment,
is to bring harm to ourselves.Dhammapada v.131
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Published May 06, 2020 06:00
To harm living beings
who, like us, seek contentment,
is to bring harm to ourselves.Dhammapada v.131
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Published April 07, 2020 06:00
Distorted views,
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which give rise to seeing right as wrong
and wrong as right,
cause beings to disintegrate.
Published March 08, 2020 06:00
Appreciative awareness leads to life;
heedless avoidance is the path to death.
Those who are truly aware are fully ... Read more
Published February 08, 2020 06:00
Neither mother, father
nor any member of a family
can give you the blessings generated
by your own well-directed ... Read more
Published January 09, 2020 06:00
Mistaking the false for the real,
and the real for the false,
one suffers a life of falsity.But seeing the false ... Read more
Published December 11, 2019 06:00
If spoken to harshly,
make yourself as silent as a cracked gong;
non-retaliation is a sign of freedom.... Read more
Published November 11, 2019 06:00
As iron is destroyed by the rust it produces,
so those who perform evil are ... Read more
Published October 13, 2019 06:00
Those who speak much
are not necessarily possessed of wisdom.
The wise can be seen
to be at peace with life
and free ... Read more
Published September 13, 2019 06:00
Strength of patience
is the might of noble beings;
they can be shackled,
endure verbal abuse and beatings,
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Published August 15, 2019 06:00
Having performed a wholesome act
it is good to repeat it.
Enjoy the pleasure of its memory.
The fruit of goodness is ... Read more