:) Difficult, but necessary :) – Great Middle Way

When you are sick and in pain, when your possessions are stolen, when you are scolded, defamed, or abused, when you experience misfortune or are hungry, don’t let your head hang low, don’t let your…

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The Difference — The Great Middle Way

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth. —Ayya Khema

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Free yourself… “Zen Spirituality”.

This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible – Zen Flash

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you, as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.“Look how he abused me and hurt me, how he threw me down and robbed me.” Live with such thoughts and you live in hate. Abandon such thoughts, and live in love.
In this world hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible.

~ Buddha ~
The Dhammapada

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The root of suffering

Do everything with a mind that lets go. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will know complete pea…

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Where is the truth?

Tao & Zen

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5 liars — Zen ; Great Middle Way

greatmiddleway.wordpress.com by Tashi Nyima June 18, 2016 The aggregate of form, the material body, tells me where I am. The aggregate of feeling tells me how I am. The aggregate of cognition tells me what I am. The aggregate of volition tells me why I am. The aggregate of consciousness tells me I am the […]

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We are what we think — Zen Flash

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Buddhism and The Dharma: Right Livelihood

Along with Right Speech and Right Action, Right Livelihood belongs to the component of Superior Discipline in the Eightfold Noble Path (the other two being Superior Meditation and Superior Wisdom).…

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What we do today.

“Today is your day

To do with as you will

You can take it wherever you want it to go”

Nina

-Buddha