Positive actions are difficult and infrequent. It is hard to have positive thoughts when our minds are influenced by emotions and confused by adverse circumstances. Negative thoughts arise by themselves, and it is rare that we do a positive action whose motivation, execution, and conclusion are perfectly pure. If our stock of hard-won positive ( Read more... )

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results ( Read more... )

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it ( Read more... )

The ultimate source of peace ( Read more... )

Intelligent practice always deals with just one thing: the fear at the base of human existence, the fear that I am not ( Read more... )

I once heard a story about a visit to heaven and hell. In both places the visitor saw many people seated at a table on which many delicious foods were laid out. In both places chopsticks over a meter long were tied to their right hands, while their left hands were tied to their chairs. In hell, however much they stretched out their arms, the ( Read more... )

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it ( Read more... )

There is a simple way to become a buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome action, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not seek anything else ( Read more... )

Adverse circumstances test our courage, our strength of mind ( Read more... )

The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if any of these three are lacking. The raw material of dharma practice is ourself and our world, which are to be understood and transformed according to the vision and values of the dharma itself. ( Read more... )