Thursday, July 20, 2006
Slacked off again...
I know that I have been a bit slack with my personal posts, and I do apologize. I do have some things to report on, so I will try to get that up as soon as possible. In the meantime, please enjoy the following quotes…including the Dalai Lama talking on sexual attachment. How true are his words.
G’day folks!
Let's use greed as an example. We wish to avoid prolonging any state of greed that arises, because a continuation of that state leads to bondage and sorrow. That does not mean we try to toss the thought out of the mind when it appears. We simply refuse to encourage it to stay. We let it come, and we let it go.
~ Henepola Gunaratna
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
-- Howard W. Newton
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-- Sophia Loren (1934- ) Italian Actress
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
-- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish Writer
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race.
--Ernest L. Woodward
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
~Buddha
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
-- Glenn Clark
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~Buddha
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
~Buddha
Patience is passion tamed.
-- Lyman Abbott
Words from the Dalai Lama
Take your body and mind as the laboratory, engage in some thoroughgoing research on your own mental functioning, and examine the possibility of making some positive changes within yourself.
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
Guilt, as experienced in Western culture, is connected with hopelessness and discouragement and is past-oriented. Genuine remorse, however, is a healthy state of mind—it is future-oriented, connected with hope, and causes us to act, to change.
Every person has the same potential for inner tranquility, but negative forces such as fear, suspicion, selfishness, and self-hatred can destroy inner peace.
Ignorance is the fundamental cause of the painful round and round of cyclic existence.
I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way.
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, an enemy is indispensable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.
With love that is simply attachment, the slightest change in the object, such as a tiny change of attitude, immediately causes you to change. This is because your emotion is based on something very superficial. Take, for example, a new marriage. Often after a few weeks, months, or years the couple become enemies and finish up getting divorced. They married deeply in love—nobody marries with hatred—but after a short time everything changed. Why?
There are different types of attachment in relation to different objects: attachment toward form appearance, sound, smell, tactile sensations, and so on. All of these individually are powerful enough to cause a lot of problems and difficulties. However, the strongest form of attachment seems to be sexual attachment. Here we find attachment toward all the five senses involved. Therefore, it is all the more powerful and has the potential for problems and destruction.
Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.
-- Steven H. Coogler ¶ 7/20/2006 04:35:00 AM
G’day folks!
Let's use greed as an example. We wish to avoid prolonging any state of greed that arises, because a continuation of that state leads to bondage and sorrow. That does not mean we try to toss the thought out of the mind when it appears. We simply refuse to encourage it to stay. We let it come, and we let it go.
~ Henepola Gunaratna
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
-- Howard W. Newton
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-- Sophia Loren (1934- ) Italian Actress
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
-- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish Writer
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race.
--Ernest L. Woodward
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
~Buddha
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
-- Glenn Clark
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~Buddha
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
~Buddha
Patience is passion tamed.
-- Lyman Abbott
Words from the Dalai Lama
Take your body and mind as the laboratory, engage in some thoroughgoing research on your own mental functioning, and examine the possibility of making some positive changes within yourself.
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
Guilt, as experienced in Western culture, is connected with hopelessness and discouragement and is past-oriented. Genuine remorse, however, is a healthy state of mind—it is future-oriented, connected with hope, and causes us to act, to change.
Every person has the same potential for inner tranquility, but negative forces such as fear, suspicion, selfishness, and self-hatred can destroy inner peace.
Ignorance is the fundamental cause of the painful round and round of cyclic existence.
I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way.
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, an enemy is indispensable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.
With love that is simply attachment, the slightest change in the object, such as a tiny change of attitude, immediately causes you to change. This is because your emotion is based on something very superficial. Take, for example, a new marriage. Often after a few weeks, months, or years the couple become enemies and finish up getting divorced. They married deeply in love—nobody marries with hatred—but after a short time everything changed. Why?
There are different types of attachment in relation to different objects: attachment toward form appearance, sound, smell, tactile sensations, and so on. All of these individually are powerful enough to cause a lot of problems and difficulties. However, the strongest form of attachment seems to be sexual attachment. Here we find attachment toward all the five senses involved. Therefore, it is all the more powerful and has the potential for problems and destruction.
Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.
-- Steven H. Coogler ¶ 7/20/2006 04:35:00 AM
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