1. The feelings of Happiness and Sadness…

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    The son of my little sister who passed a way 9 months ago. He’s such a tough boy. He’s wearing a picture of his mom, my mother gave him. His lips are dark because he just had a blue ice cream. His name is Kyle, but my little sis called him Boo-Boo, so we all call him Boo-Boo. Kyle is 5 years old. His mother died one week after his birthday. ~Jendhamuni

    Knowledge and action should be one. Words and actions are two exterior manifestations of our inner thoughts; but most people’s words exceed their actions.

    Being concerned with gain and lossbrings us the feelings of happiness and sadness. We should transcend the concepts of good and evil, gain and loss.

    Most people pursue fame and fortune, but think of how much there is in nature that you own already. The stars, the moon, mountains, rivers, flowers, and trees all for you!

    Coming to understand the big questions in life has to be done by oneself, no one else can do it for you. Maintaining other people’s ideas is like the mimicry of a parrot – it may be speaking, but it doesn’t know what it’s saying.

    Movement was originally easy, but we have been shackled by so many worldly rules and restrictions that it is sometimes difficult to take even a single step.

    The truth of things does not reside in some unreachable, distant place: it is in our minds.

    You don’t need to travel to some illusory world to find the principles of life: just pay attention to the details of life and experience them. When you begin to doubt, an answer is most likely found where the question begins.

    He who is the master of himself does not change through influence from his surroundings or from others.

    Author: Tsai Chih Chung, Brian Bruya

  2. Beautifully balanced and coordinated

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    Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.
    Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. ― Rumi

    http://kimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/golden-memories_21.html

  3. Beauty of Cambodian farmer

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    You can always smile even if you are poor
    A Cambodian farmer removes rice seedlings in Dangkor district on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Aug. 20, 2014. Cambodia has approximately 1.9 million agricultural households with about 8.5 million people, or 57 percent of the country's 14.96 million people, according to the first-ever agriculture census report released on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Sovannara)

    http://kimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/cambodia-has-19-mln-agricultural.html

  4. All Roads Lead To Rio

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    The International Olympic Committee has selected the Brazilian capital of Rio de Janeiro as the host city for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic games. Source: roadtraffic-technology

  5. The Most Beautiful Abandoned Places In The World

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    Randomlist, April 27, 2013

    Nature reclaiming the mess we have left behind, there are very few things in the world that are as reassuring as the knowledge that no matter what we do as a race nature will always be there to reclaim what was once lost. Please enjoy some photo’s of the most beautiful abandoned places in the world.  On this random list you can see abandoned planes, abandoned ships, as well as the abandoned houses, and so many other things, that are really amazing and magnificent.

    Abandoned Railway France

    Chatillon Car Graveyard in Belgium
    Cincinnati’s abandoned subway depot
    Jiancing Historic Trail in Taipingshan National Forest in Taiwan


  6. You must love in such a way…

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    You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. 

    This nonviolent approach to transformation is rooted in love. We do not look at our destructive tendencies as things that must be destroyed (for that would be employing violence in the pursuit of nonviolence) but as confused and hurt parts of ourselves that must be befriended and understood. Love is the nonviolent conqueror, transforming through a mature and loving care, “the care given by the big brother to the little brother.”

    The task of the meditator is not to chase away or to suppress the energy of anger that is there but to invite another energy that will be able to care for the anger. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

  7. You must love in such a way

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    You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.  

    This nonviolent approach to transformation is rooted in love. We do not look at our destructive tendencies as things that must be destroyed (for that would be employing violence in the pursuit of nonviolence) but as confused and hurt parts of ourselves that must be befriended and understood. Love is the nonviolent conqueror, transforming through a mature and loving care, “the care given by the big brother to the little brother.”

    The task of the meditator is not to chase away or to suppress the energy of anger that is there but to invite another energy that will be able to care for the anger. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

    http://leelavadeeflower.blogspot.com/2014/08/you-must-love-in-such-way.html

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...