1. For a man to be perfect there are two qualities that he should develop equally

    Comment December 10, 2020

    Novices Calvin and Ananda

    According to Buddhism for a man to be perfect there are two qualities that he should develop equally: compassion on one side, and wisdom on the other. Here compassion represents love, charity, kindness, tolerance and such noble qualities on the emotional side, or qualities of the heart, while wisdom would stand for the intellectual side or the qualities of the mind. If one develops only the emotional neglecting the intellectual, one may become a good-hearted fool; while to develop only the intellectual side neglecting the emotional may turn one into a hardheaded intellect without feeling for others. Therefore, to be perfect one has to develop both equally. That is the aim of the Buddhist way of life: in it wisdom and compassion are inseparably linked together.

    — Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

  3. What the Buddha taught

    Comment January 9, 2018

    Just as a grammarian first has students
    Read a model of the alphabet,
    Buddha taught students
    The doctrine that they could bear.

    To some he taught doctrines
    To turn them away from ill-deeds.
    To some, for the sake of achieving merit.
    To some, doctrines based on duality.

    To some, doctrines based on non-duality.
    To some, what is profound and frightening to the fearful –
    Having an essence of emptiness and compassion –
    The means of achieving unsurpassed enlightenment.

    ~ Nagarjuna

  4. When you make the other suffer

    Comment March 6, 2016

    The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides. ~Hanh Nhat Thich

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    We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. ~Ray Bradbury

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  5. Prayer for Peace

    Comment January 22, 2015

    From left: Novice Ananda and Novice Kyle.

    “Good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge”

    May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses.
    May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free.
    May the powerless find power and may people think of befriending one another.
    May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wildernesses – the children, the aged, the unprotected – be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.

    ~A Buddhist Prayer for Peace

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