Obstacles can’t stop you.
Problems can’t stop you.
Most of all,
Other people can’t stop you.
The Only one who stops you
is yourself. ~Posted by Rishika Jain
This river knows nothing but her name
She is the hard blue muscle
That pumps blood into the mouth of morning,
The woman who sits at the edge of sorrow
Grafting time into the shape of a clay pot or reed basket,
Insatiable with longing and filled with the ovaries of stars,
The mind of all things drawn to silt and sludge,
To pools and ferns.
Currents streak her back with a name that means dreaming fish
Where ripples of reed ducks and water rats pattern hieroglyphs
Against her wide green thighs.
She is the water that we shed as tears, scooped up by the hands of night
And poured into the throat of day, turquoise and lapis, emerald and jade.
The moon hums against her skin. Continue reading
Will no one stand up for me,
I am all things can’t you see.
I give you air to breath, the life that feeds
I nourished you from birth.
Never once have I ask for anything,
always a silent friend.
We are as one and one we are when will you ever learn,
to know when you are lonely that you are never alone.
For I walk with you in the shadows, through the dark and dim lit roads,
when the wind is light and the sun is bright, my beauty in you shines through. Continue reading
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha
We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate. Right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness. ~Dalai Lama
Ven. Dejapanno Phorn Pheap and Ven. Munindathero Maha Nhor Tepmony show a 3-year-old Ananda how to meditate during a Meditation session at Buddhist Peace Meditation Center at Wat Kirivongsa Bopharam. ~Templenews TV
We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.
That the happiness of one person or nation is the happiness of humanity. ~Dalai Lama
No matter how much money, power or fame you have, it all means nothing if you aren’t making a positive impact on the world. People remember the kindness and smiles you share with them, not the money you made.
Jendhamuni and a beautiful young girl at The international Community of Khmer Buddhist Monks Center in Pelham, Massachusetts during Khmer New Year 2011.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. ~His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Vipassana Learning Class at the Buddhism Peace Meditation Center in Leverett, Massachusetts taught by Venerable Dejapanno Phorn Pheap.
