1. Having patience…

    Comment

    Having patience in understanding Dharma and gaining faith.
    Being undisturbed by anguish from suffering.
    Practise patience before getting angry.
    Having patience in accepting problems.
    Being undisturbed by inflicted harm.

    ~A View on Buddhism

  2. All the peace and happiness…

    Comment

    All the peace and happiness of the whole globe,
    the peace and happiness of societies,
    the peace and happiness of family,
    the peace and happiness in the individual persons’ life,
    and the peace and happiness of even the animals and so forth,
    all depends on having loving kindness toward each other.

    ~Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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  3. Authentic love toward others

    Comment

    When you feel authentic love toward others, you will be deeply moved to act. You will not rest until you have found ways to secure the happiness of all those you are able to include in your feelings of love. As you learn to love more and more widely, your love will motivate you to act to benefit not just the few people in your inner circle, but your whole society, and eventually, the whole world. ~ 17th Karmapa

    Photo credit: Randy Neufeldt

    Photo credit: Randy Neufeldt

  4. Putting ourselves in someone else’s place 

    Comment

    Sometimes harsh words must be said in order to help someone, but generally when we speak harshly, it is because we are angry, and it does not help. It is difficult to speak harsh words with love and compassion. In these situations, we can take ourselves as an example. Putting ourselves in someone else’s place, we ask, “If someone said these words to me in that way, how would I feel?” When we truly think of others, we will find some part of them that resembles us, because every one of us experiences pleasure and pain. Before we act or speak, thinking of others as similar to us is quite useful. ~ 17th Karmapa

    Photo credit: Randy Neufeldt

    Photo credit: Randy Neufeldt

  5. When we take the one seat

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    When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness. ~Jack Kornfield

     

  6. Our life is vast

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    Our life is vast. It does not stop at the limits of what we personally experience. It is not something concrete or bounded. I do not think it is valid to view our life as limited to just ourselves — as if our human life extended only as far as our own body. Rather, we can see that a life extends out in all directions, like a net. We throw a net, and it expands outward. Just like that, our life extends to touch many other lives. Our life can reach out and become a pervasive part of everyone’s life. ~ 17th Karmapa

  7. You exist in connection with others

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    The aim is to be able to feel the extent to which others are extremely important and integral to you and also to gain an emotional awareness that you are never, ever really separate from them. Others are part of you, just as you are part of them. You exist in connection with others. When you see this, you can also see that your happiness and suffering depend upon others. If you think solely in terms of yourself and your own happiness, it simply does not work. There is no happiness without relying upon others. ~17th Karmapa

     

     

  8. Ours is a society of denial

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    Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature. ~Jack Kornfield

     

Hermit of Tbeng Mountain

Sachjang Phnom Tbeng សច្ចំ​​ ភ្នំត្បែង is a very long and interesting story written by Mr. Chhea Sokoan, read by Jendhamuni Sos. You can click on the links below to listen. Part 1 | Part 2

List of Khmer songs