where are my glasses.....???

A man who is seeking for realization is not only going round searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for

aNgER dAnGeR

Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha...

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing,
thinking or not-thinking,
'meditating' or 'not-meditating'
you are no closer to home
than the day you were born. "The Tenth Man" by Wei Wu Wei

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Oh the thinks you can think......

Whatever one thinks about and ponders over often, one's mind gets a leaning in that way.

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These ten things nourish the ten things that are desirable, liked, charming and hard to win in the world. What ten?

Energy and exertion nourish wealth.

Finery and adornment nourish beauty.

Doing things at the proper time nourishes health.

Friendship with the beautiful nourishes virtue.

Restraint of the senses nourishes the holy life.

Not quarrelling nourishes friendship.

Repetition nourishes great knowledge.

Lending an ear and asking questions nourishes wisdom.

Study and examination nourishes the teachings.

And living rightly nourishes rebirth in the heaven world.

Owner of my Actions

I am the owner of my actions (karma),

Heir to my actions, I am born of my actions, I am related to my actions and I have my actions as refuge.

Whatever I do, good or evil, of that I will be the heir.

Can you happy me now?

The purpose of our existence is to seek happiness.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

In fact, whether we are feeling happy or unhappy at any given moment often has very little to do with our absolute conditions but, rather it is a function of how we are perceive our situation, how satisfied we are with what we have.

Our feelings of contentment are strongly influenced by our tendency to compare.

Once basic needs are met, the message is clear: we don't need more money, we don't need greater success or fame, we don't need the perfect body or even the perfect mate -- right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.

Meditation, means the practice of mindfulness/awareness. We practice being mindful of all the things that we use to torture ourselves with. We become mindful by abandoning our expectations about the way we thing things should be and, out of our mindfulness, we begin to develop awareness about the way things really are. We begin to develop the insight that things are really quite simple, that we can handle ourselves, and our relationships, very well as soon as we stop being so manipulative and complex.