A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll
Life begins the day you start a garden. — Chinese proverb
Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years. — Unknown
Cleanliness is a habit that keeps the body, mind, and environment neat, clean, and delightful and free from dirt and toxic things.
― Amit Ray
The clean person is not the one that runs away from dirt but one who takes the time and effort to tidy up a dirty environment.
The purpose of art, is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Ego is like dust in the mind, without cleaning that dust you can’t see.
Source: The Organizer
Equanimity embraces the loved and the unloved, the agreeable and the disagreeable, the pleasure and pain. It eliminates clinging and aversion. ― Jack Kornfield
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. ― Pema Chödron
Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness. ~Jack Kornfield
Jendhamuni at Kiryvongsa Bopharam on July 6, 2022.
When your mind is tranquil, all your ill-thoughts cease. ~Unknown
Do you feel that praise is easy to let go of and criticism is hard to let go of? They are really equal. But when we are praised we don’t feel disturbed; we are pleased, but it’s not a sharp feeling. Criticism is painful, so we feel it’s hard to let go of. Being pleased is also hard to let go of, but we are partial to it so we don’t have the same desire to get rid of it quickly. The delight we take in being praised and the sting we feel when criticized are equal. They are the same. But when our minds meet these things we have unequal reactions to them. We don’t mind being close to some of them. ~Ajahn Chah
Jendhamuni with Buddhist friends, originally from Nepal, at Kiryvongsa Bopharam, Peace Meditatioin Center on July 3, 2022.
Some people give the gift of peace and tranquility to every life they touch. They are always who they really are. They are blessedly reliable, dependably good, predictably pleasant, loved and treasured by all who know them. You are one of those people. You are a gift of peace and tranquility. ~Anonymous Continue reading
“Always be aware that you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and tranquil life you deserve.”
“One day you’ll look back and realize that you worried too much about things that don’t really matter.”
~ Anonymous
Your friends should motivate and inspire you. Your circle should be well rounded and supportive. Keep it tight, quality over quantity.” ~ Anonymous
Jendhamuni at H.H. Maha Ghosananda’s International Community of Khmer Buddhist Monks Center on October 16, 2022.
“Keep people in your life that will change it for the better.”
“Do not expect positive changes in your life if you surround yourself with negative people.”
~ Anonymous Continue reading
Ananda with Maha Thera Siripanno Sophon Thon at H.H. Maha Ghosananda’s International Community of Khmer Buddhist Monks Center (ICKBM) on October 15, 2022.
“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” ― Roy T. Bennett
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.” – Kahlil Gibran Continue reading
Jendhamuni in the backyard on November 21, 2021.
“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” ~ Jo Walton
“Let every sunrise adorn your mind with the power of hope. Let it paint your life with the colors of the morning sky.” ~ Debasish Mridha
“One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine. A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise. A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday – for gratitude is light against the darkness.” ~ Richelle E. Goodrich Continue reading
