Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Let loose of what you can’t control. Serenity will be yours.
End each day with thoughts of peace. Begin each day with thoughts of peace. Continue thinking thoughts of peace throughout your precious day and happiness will be yours. ~Unknown
ចម្ការថ្នាំជក់នៅឃុំស្វាយឃ្លាំង ស្រុកក្រូចឆ្មារ ខេត្តត្បូងឃ្មុំ កាលពីថ្ងៃទី២៣ ខែមេសា ឆ្នាំ២០១៦។ RFA/Cheu Sideth
That is what the Blessed One said. Having said that, the One Well-Gone, the Teacher, said further:
If you hold yourself dear
then don’t fetter yourself
with evil,
for happiness isn’t easily gained
by one who commits
a wrong-doing.
When seized by the End-maker
as you abandon the human state,
what’s truly your own?
What do you take along when you go?
What follows behind you
like a shadow
that never leaves?
Both the merit & evil
that you as a mortal
perform here:
that’s what’s truly your own,
what you take along when you go;
that’s what follows behind you
like a shadow
that never leaves.
So do what is admirable,
as an accumulation
for the future life.
Deeds of merit are the support for beings
when they arise
in the other world.
“Piya Sutta: Dear” (SN 3.4), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Source: Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 30 November 2013
Attainment of Enlightenment as Buddha
14. Attainment of Enlightenment as Buddha
Having vanquished the army of Mara, the Future Buddha sat cross-legged at the foot of the Bodhi tree with the firm resolution that he would not get up from his seat until he attained the supreme wisdom of a Buddha, and went into deep meditation. He acquired in the first watch of the night the knowledge of previous existences; in the middle watch of the night, the divine eye with which he could see the beings of all thirty-one planes of existence dying and being reborn; and in the last watch of the night, he gained the bliss of complete emancipation. Thus on Wednesday the full moon day of Vesakha (April-May) 103 the Great Era at dawn, the Great Being attained the Supreme Enlightenment of a Buddha.
THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BUDDHISM
by ASHIN JANAKA BHIVAMSA (Aggamahapandita)
Artist: U Ba Kyi | Link to this post
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. ~Jim Beggs
Whatever living beings there may be — feeble or strong, long, stout, or of medium size, short, small, large, those seen or those unseen, those dwelling far or near, those who are born as well as those yet to be born — may all beings have happy minds. —The ~Buddha, Karaniya Metta Sutta
Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet. ~The Buddha
A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind. ~Michael Bassey Johnson
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something. ~Federico Fellini
ផ្ទះពលរដ្ឋដែលត្រូវខ្យល់កន្ត្រាក់បំផ្លាញ ឋិតនៅឃុំចម្ការលើ ស្រុកថាឡាបរិវ៉ាត់ ខេត្តស្ទឹងត្រែង កាលពីថ្ងៃទី៦ ខែឧសភា ឆ្នាំ២០១៦។ Source: RFA
The future Buddha being attacked by Mara, the evil one, just before he attained enlightenment
13. The future Buddha being attacked by Mara, the evil one, just before he attained enlightenment
After eating the milk-porridge offered by Sujata, the Future Buddha took his noonday rest on the bank of the Neranjara, in the cool and pleasant shade of a grove of sal trees. And at nightfall he went towards the Bodhi tree. On the way he received from a grass-cutter named Sotthiya eight handfuls of grass and sat down cross-legged on that grass. He made the mighty resolution: “I will not stir from this seat until I have attained the supreme and absolute wisdom”. Many higher and lower gods with Sakka came near the Future Buddha.
The god Mara, the Evil One, saw the Future Buddha seated in that unconquerable position and knew that he was sure to become a Buddha. He went back to his celestial realm and brought his army drawn out for battle. He grasped a variety of weapons himself and sounded the war-cry, “Advance! Seize!” to frighten the Great Being. But the Future Buddha won a peaceful victory over Mara with the power of loving kindness, which he had practised in his many past lives, just as a mother would tame a cruel and wicked son with her maternal love.
THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BUDDHISM
by ASHIN JANAKA BHIVAMSA (Aggamahapandita)
Artist: U Ba Kyi | Link to this post
