1. The world is full of beauty when your heart is full of love

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    I wouldn’t want to change a thing about you. You’re perfect just the way you are.
    Smile! Because you have just received a text message from someone hoping you are fine. The world is full of beauty when your heart is full of love. So start & end your day with love & smile in your heart. Have a peaceful day. ~smstosay

  2. A language spoken by heart

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    Friendship is a language spoken by heart…
    Not written on paper, nor given by pledge…
    It is a promise renewed every time we keep in touch…

    Care is the sweetest form of love.
    When someone says ‘take care’ it really
    means that you will stay in their hearts.
    So take Care of yourself always.

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  3. Lightening the Heart

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    I have noticed from experience that taking things too seriously can be debilitating. It can paralyze us.

    It is usually more effective to approach problems with a light heart – a willingness to laugh at them and at ourselves. Otherwise, if we are too somber, we could be stricken with a heart attack before we even have the chance to do anything to improve the situation! Instead, we can be playful. A sense of humor can be very helpful in preventing us from feeling stuck or overwhelmed by a difficult situation.

    Especially if a situation is critical, you have to be able to approach it with some openness, just in order to see the possible solutions clearly. For example, sometimes there are serious issues that you feel you need to address, but that you cannot resolve. What do you end up doing? Worrying. There can also be serious issues that you actually can do something about. In those cases, too, if you are not careful, you may also find yourself worrying. Once you are overwhelmed by anxiety and other unhelpful emotions, it will be very difficult to plan or make clearheaded decisions. You will not be able to look beyond the obstacles to notice the opportunities.  ~ 17th Karmapa

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  4. Anger, resentment and jealousy

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    Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours. ~Shannon L. Alder

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    Photo credit: Randy Neufeldt

  5. The heart that gives thanks

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    The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.
    The more we say thanks, the more we find to be thankful for.
    And the more we find to be thankful for, the happier we become.
    We don’t give thanks because we’re happy.
    We are happy because we give thanks.

    ~Douglas Wood

  6. The purity of heart

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    Love doesn’t mean to win someone. But it means to lose yourself for someone. It is not done by the excellence of mind. But it is done by the purity of heart. ~Vikas Runwal

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  7. Using your heart as your compass

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    By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you’ll see a noticeable difference in your life. ~Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution

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  8. Dhamma practice

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    All of Dhamma practice comes to completion when nothing remains.
    It is the place of surrender, of emptiness, of laying down the burden.
    This is the end. ~Ajahn Chah

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My Reflection

This site is a tribute to Buddhism. Buddhism has given me a tremendous inspiration to be who and where I am today. Although I came to America at a very young age, however, I never once forget who I am and where I came from. One thing I know for sure is I was born as a Buddhist, live as a Buddhist and will leave this earth as a Buddhist. I do not believe in superstition. I only believe in karma.

A Handful of Leaves

A Handful of Leaves

Tipitaka: The pali canon (Readings in Theravada Buddhism). A vast body of literature in English translation the texts add up to several thousand printed pages. Most -- but not all -- of the Canon has already been published in English over the years. Although only a small fraction of these texts are available here at Access to Insight, this collection can nonetheless be a very good place to start.

Major Differences

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