From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.
-Ayya Khema
Monthly Archives: April 2010
DAILY WISDOM 09/04/2010
No flower’s scent
goes against the wind—
not sandalwood, jasmine, tagara.
But the scent of the good
does go against the wind.
The person of integrity
wafts a scent
in every direction.
-Dhammapada
DAILY WISDOM 08/04/2010
As a tree with strong uninjured roots, though cut down, grows up again, so, when deep craving is not rooted out, suffering arises again and again.
-Dhammapada
DAILY WISDOM 07/04/2010
For those who are ready,
the door to the deathless state is open.
You that have ears, give up the conditions that bind you,
and enter in.
-Majjhima Nikaya
DAILY WISDOM 06/04/2010
This itself is the whole of the journey, opening your heart to that which is lovely. Because of their feeling for the lovely, beings who are afraid of birth and death, ageing and decaying, are freed from their fear. This is the way you must train yourself: I will become your friend and an intimate of the lovely. To do this I must closely observe and embrace all states of mind that are good.
-Samyutta Nikaya
DAILY WISDOM 05/04/2010
Fields are spoiled by weeds;
people, by passion.
So what’s given to those
free of passion
bears great fruit.Fields are spoiled by weeds;
people, by aversion.
So what’s given to those
free of aversion
bears great fruit.
-Dhammapada
DAILY WISDOM 04/04/2010
Hands restrained,
feet restrained
speech restrained,
supremely restrained–
delighting in what is inward,
content, centred, alone:
he’s what they call a monk.A monk restrained in his speaking,
giving counsel unruffled,
declaring the message & meaning:
sweet is his speech.
-Dhammapada
DAILY WISDOM 03/04/2010
Not even if it rained gold coins
would we have our fill of sensual pleasures.
‘Stressful, they give little enjoyment’
knowing this, the wise one finds no delight
even in heavenly sensual pleasures.
He is one who delights in the ending of craving,
A disciple of the Rightly Self-Awakened One.
-Dhammapada
DAILY WISDOM 02/04/2010
They awaken, always wide awake:
Gotama’s disciples whose mindfulness, both day and night,
is constantly immersed in the body.
-Dhammapada
DAILY WISDOM 01/04/2010
Having enjoyed a sweet delicious taste,
And having sometimes tasted what is bitter,
Do not greedily enjoy the sweet taste,
Do not feel aversion toward the bitter.When touched by pleasant contact, do not be enthralled,
Do not tremble when touched by pain.
Look evenly on both the pleasant and painful,
Not drawn or repelled by anything.
-Buddha