defilements are like a cat. If you feed it, it will keep coming around. Stop feeding it, and eventually it will not bother to come around any more.
- Ajahn Chah [Still Forest Pool]
Monthly Archives: February 2011
WEEKLY WISDOM 21/02/2011
A head of gray hair
doesn’t mean one’s an elder.
Advanced in years,
One’s called an old fool.But one in whom there is
Truth, restraint,
Rectitude, gentleness,
Self-control–
He’s called an elder,
His impurities disgorged, Enlightened.
- Dhammpada [19]
WEEKLY WISDOM 14/02/2011
Better to conquer yourself than others.
When you’ve trained yourself,
living in constant self-control,
neither a deva nor gandhabba,
nor a Mara banded with Brahmas,
could turn that triumph back into defeat.
- Dhammapada [8]
WEEKLY WISDOM 07/02/2011
By charity, goodness, restraint, and self-control men and woman alike can store up a well-hidden treasure. A treasure which cannot be given to others and which robbers cannot steal. A wise person should do good. That is the treasure which will not leave one.
- Khuddhaka Patha