- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
- Daily Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
- Nov 07, 2020
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020