1. Be yourself

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    Accept the way you are, your personality, your mistakes, your looks, your humor, and foremost, yourself. If you have a vulgar sense of humor and you like it then who cares about some people who don’t. In other words, “be yourself” genuinely and then try to change if you truly want to. Take responsibility for your actions, mistakes and interests, basically all the good and bad things. For example, if you want to fix your anxiety problem then first of all “own it” and truly accept that you have an anxiety problem, and then try to fix it. ~wikiHow

  2. Meaning of Life

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    A great thinker was asked,
    “What is the meaning of Life?”
    He replied, “Life itself has no meaning,
    it’s an opportunity to create a meaning.”

    ~hamariweb sms

  3. Special surely means…

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    If  ‘special’ means loving, caring and dear,
    If  ‘special’ means thoughtful too and
    if  ‘special’ means tender, gentle and kind,
    then special surely means ‘YOU’

    ~sms4smile

  4. Learn and grow

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    Life is full of difficulties. But don’t despise life. Human life is an opportunity to learn and grow. You have lessons to learn and develop your wisdom. If you don’t learn deeply you have to come back again to learn. All the difficulties you are going through are very meaningful if you have the right attitude and proper perspective. You must help others to live a meaningful life and there are others who will help you. We must have some kammic connection. We will help each other. So, please don’t think all these difficulties are meaningless. We cannot go around; we have to go through.

    Things will never be perfect in life. Better not to expect perfection. I am not perfect; I will never be, and I don’t expect that.

    “That which does not kill me makes me stronger.” (Nietzsche) Even with all its pain, disappointment, despair and regret, I still find life interesting and meaningful.  Source: Buddhanet

  5. Instant flame

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    Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again
    into instant flame by an encounter with another
    human being. ~Albert Schweitzer

    “Hope is important because it can make the present
    moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow
    will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”

    ~Thich Nhat Hanh

  6. Best friends…

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    Best friends are the people who you have conversations about things that if it were
    anyone else, you’d be classified insane. However you don’t realize how special
    that person is… until you start to lose them. ~Sophia Pei

    “You can’t describe your best friends in words. You can describe them with memories 
    that you had with them.” ~Unknown

  7. Make sure you wear a most gorgeous smile

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    May your weekend be warm and peaceful. May your night be pleasant, with most beautiful dreams so you will wake up with most gorgeous smile on your face and unconditional love in your heart. ~Jendhamuni

Live & Die for Buddhism

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Me & Grandma

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

Major Differences in Buddhism

Major Differences in Buddhism: There is no almighty God in Buddhism. There is no one to hand out rewards or punishments on a supposedly Judgement Day ...read more

Problems we face today

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Of the many problems we face today, some are natural calamities and must be accepted and faced with equanimity. Others, however, are of our own making, created by misunderstanding, and can be corrected...