1. Living with the thorns

    Comment June 21, 2014

    Roses and thorns are parts of the same plant. Somehow though, some people are concerned mainly about the roses. The rose is not on the plant for more than a week, but the thorns are there forever. Roses are teaching that the beauty of life will bloom, once you have taught yourself the lessons given by living with the thorns. ― Grigoris Deoudis

     

  3. For Dog Lovers and animal Lovers

    58 June 20, 2014
    Please help us sign the petition to ban dog and cat meat
    Please help the activists put an end to the Yulin Dog Eating Festival in China. This year, Yulin Dog-Eating Festival begins June 21, 2014. Animal rights groups say 10,000 dogs are slaughtered during the festival each year, and that many are electrocuted, burned and skinned alive.

    According to an open letter by the Hong Kong-based NGO Animals Asia, many of the dogs consumed during the festival are strays and abductees. Some are transported to the city on filthy, overcrowded trucks, significantly increasing the risk that they carry rabies and other contagious diseases.

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  4. Beauty of the Soul

    Comment June 20, 2014

    Love is friendship, friendship is love. If love fails, friendship
    should remain. For friendship is the foundation of love.

    ~Unknown

  7. The miseries of others…

    Comment June 19, 2014

    The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no
    concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the
    miseries of others.

    ― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  8. Look through our own eyes…

    Comment June 19, 2014

    Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through
    our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

     ― Jon Kabat-Zinn

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...