1. Message from major religious traditions

    Comment

    All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. ~Dalai Lama

  2. Provide peace for another

    Comment

    If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. ~Dalai Lama

  3. Avoid being narrow-minded

    Comment

    Do not think the knowledge you presently possess is changeless, absolute truth. Avoid being narrow-minded and bound to present views. Learn and practice nonattachment from views in order to be open to receive others’ viewpoints. To me, this is the most essential practice of peace. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

  4. Obstacles can’t stop you

    Comment

    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

  5. River

    Comment

    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

  6. Mother Earth

    Comment

    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

  7. Let us rise up and be thankful

    Comment

    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

  8. Our basic equipment

    Comment

    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

     

  9. Learning Meditation

    Comment

    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

     

     

  10. Suffering of one person or one nation

    Comment

    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


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Khmer Tipitaka 1 – 110

 ព្រះត្រៃបិដក

ព្រះត្រៃបិដក ប្រែថា កញ្រ្ចែង ឬ ល្អី​ ៣ សម្រាប់ដាក់ផ្ទុកពាក្យពេចន៍នៃព្រះសម្មាសម្ពុទ្ធ

The Tipitaka or Pali canon, is the collection of primary Pali language texts which form the doctrinal foundation of Theravada Buddhism. The three divisions of the Tipitaka are: Vinaya Pitaka, Sutta Pitaka, Abhidhamma Pitaka.

Maha Ghosananda

Maha Ghosananda

Supreme Patriarch of Cambodian Buddhism (5/23/1913 - 3/12/07). Forever in my heart...

Samdech Chuon Nath

My reflection

វចនានុក្រមសម្តេចសង្ឃ ជួន ណាត
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Listen to Khmer literature and Dhamma talk by His Holiness Jotannano Chuon Nath, Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia Buddhism.

Shantidevas’ Bodhisattva vows

My reflection

Should anyone wish to ridicule me and make me an object of jest and scorn why should I possibly care if I have dedicated myself to others?

Let them do as they wish with me so long as it does not harm them. May no one who encounters me ever have an insignificant contact.

Regardless whether those whom I meet respond towards me with anger or faith, may the mere fact of our meeting contribute to the fulfilment of their wishes.

May the slander, harm and all forms of abuse that anyone should direct towards me act as a cause of their enlightenment.

As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so the wise are not shaken by blame and praise. As a deep lake is clear and calm, so the wise become tranquil after they listened to the truth…

Good people walk on regardless of what happens to them. Good people do not babble on about their desires. Whether touched by happiness or by sorrow, the wise never appear elated or depressed. ~The Dhammapada

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

Beauty in nature

A beautiful object has no intrinsic quality that is good for the mind, nor an ugly object any intrinsic power to harm it. Beautiful and ugly are just projections of the mind. The ability to cause happiness or suffering is not a property of the outer object itself. For example, the sight of a particular individual can cause happiness to one person and suffering to another. It is the mind that attributes such qualities to the perceived object. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Nature is loved by what is best in us. The sky, the mountain, the tree, the animal, give us a delight in and for themselves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Our journey for peace
begins today and every day.
Each step is a prayer,
Each step is a meditation,
Each step will build a bridge.

—​​​ Maha Ghosananda