Smile in ease,
Smile in pain,
Smile when trouble,
pour like rain,
smile when someone hurt your feelings,
smiles you know are very attractive.
~sms4smile
Smile in ease,
Smile in pain,
Smile when trouble,
pour like rain,
smile when someone hurt your feelings,
smiles you know are very attractive.
~sms4smile
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Whoever settles a matter by violence is not just.
The wise calmly considers what is right and what is wrong.
Whoever guides others by a procedure
that is nonviolent and fair
is said to be a guardian of truth, wise and just.
A person is not a supporter of justice
simply because one talks much.
Even if a person has learned little,
whoever discerns justice with the body
and does not neglect justice is a supporter of justice.
~Dhammapada
“They insulted me; they hurt me;
they defeated me; they cheated me.”
In those who harbor such thoughts,
hate will never cease. ~Dhammapada
Loving-kindness meditation can be brought in to support the practice of insight meditation to help keep the mind open and sweet. It provides the essential balance to support Insight meditation practice.
It is a fact of life that many people are troubled by difficult emotional states in the pressured societies we live in, but do little in terms of developing skills to deal with them. Yet even when the mind goes sour it is within most people’s capacity to arouse positive feelings to sweeten it. Loving-kindness is a meditation practice taught by the Buddha to develop the mental habit of selfless or altruistic love. In the Dhammapada can be found the saying: “Hatred cannot coexist with loving-kindness, and dissipates if supplanted with thoughts based on loving-kindness.”
Loving-kindness is a meditation practice, which brings about positive attitudinal changes as it systematically develops the quality of ‘loving-acceptance’. It acts, as it were, as a form of self-psychotherapy, a way of healing the troubled mind to free it from its pain and confusion. Of all Buddhist meditations, loving-kindness has the immediate benefit of sweetening and changing old habituated negative patterns of mind.
Only when compassion is born in your heart, is it possible to forgive.
I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence. If you cannot be compassionate to yourself, you will not be able to be compassionate to others. We cannot destroy the energy; we can only convert it into a more constructive energy. Forgiveness is a constructive energy. Anger is born from ignorance, and is a strong ally of ignorance. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
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| Jendhamuni in the wood. File photo. |
Letting go is one of the major cornerstones of being set free make a decision to release whatever is holding you back. Don’t hang on to anything that is not empowering you to move forward. In reality you always have the option of choosing whether you will focus on a hurtful past or fill your mind with uplifting thoughts of the present and all its blessings. Your mind cannot focus on both negative and positive ideas at the same time. ~Sue Augustine
The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind
all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey
forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future. ~Sue Augustine
The time has come to lay that baggage
down and leave behind all the struggling
and striving. You can be set free as you
journey forward into a balanced
healthy and rewarding future.
~Sue Augustine
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Compassion is a beautiful flower born of understanding. When you get angry with someone, practice breathing in and out mindfully. Look deeply into the situation to see the true nature of your own and the other person’s suffering, and you will be liberated.
Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of it. Maybe in the past you left it untended for a long time. You should know exactly what is going on in your own garden, and try to put everything in order. Restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. If it is well tended, many people will enjoy your garden. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
