Buddha Thought

2011-04-27T01:58:00.000-07:00

"Just as we should cultivate gentle and peaceful relations with our fellow human beings, we should also extend that same kind of attitude towards the natural environment. Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

2011-04-25T00:04:00.000-07:00

"My actions are my only true belongings." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

2011-04-23T01:57:00.000-07:00

"We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives. Whether we live just a few years or a whole century, it would be truly regrettable and sad if we were to spend that time aggravating the problems that afflict other people, animals, and the environment. The most important thing is to be a good human being." ~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

2011-04-21T01:53:00.000-07:00

"When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

2011-04-20T00:39:00.000-07:00

"Because you are alive, everything is possible." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

2011-04-19T00:37:00.000-07:00

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Frederick Douglass

2011-04-18T00:33:00.000-07:00

"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

2011-04-17T00:31:00.000-07:00

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Mark Twain

2011-04-16T00:26:00.000-07:00

"The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

2011-03-31T01:49:00.000-07:00

"A wise person is characterized by his actions, and a fool by his. It is through the activities of one's life that one's discernment shines." ~Anguttara Nikaya

2011-03-30T01:19:00.000-07:00

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. Bill Cosby

2011-03-29T01:52:00.000-07:00

"How easy it is to see your brother's faults, how hard it is to face your own."

~Gautam Buddha

2011-03-28T01:50:00.000-07:00

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side ..." -Hunter S. Thompson

2011-03-27T01:47:00.000-07:00

"When developed, the mind leads to great benefit. When undeveloped, to great harm." ~Anguttara Nikaya

2011-03-26T01:48:00.000-07:00

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962

2011-03-25T01:41:00.000-07:00

"Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us." ~Pema Chodron

2011-03-24T01:45:00.000-07:00

"People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead."

~Edith Wharton

2011-03-23T01:36:00.000-07:00

"People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you're given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give you everything you need to open further." ~Pema Chodron

2011-03-22T01:04:00.000-07:00

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Mae West

2011-03-21T01:33:00.000-07:00

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." ~Buddha

2011-03-20T01:53:00.000-07:00

"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best." - Henry Van Dyke

2011-03-19T01:28:00.000-07:00

"An untroubled mind, no longer seeking to consider w
hat is right and what is wrong, a
mind beyond judgements, w
atches and understands."
~The Buddha

2011-03-18T01:04:00.000-07:00

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

2011-03-17T01:31:00.000-07:00

"Speak or act with an impure mind, and trouble will follow you." ~The Buddha

2011-03-16T01:07:00.000-07:00

I owe nothing to Women's Lib. Margaret Thatcher

2011-03-15T01:25:00.000-07:00

"In this world hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, a
ncient and inexhaustible."
~The Buddha

2011-03-14T01:09:00.000-07:00

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. Mohandas Gandhi

2011-03-13T01:23:00.000-08:00

"In every trial let understanding fight for you."
~The Buddha

2011-03-12T01:12:00.000-08:00

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. Mark Twain

2011-03-11T01:37:00.000-08:00

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

~The Buddha

2011-03-10T01:01:00.000-08:00

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa

2011-03-09T01:35:00.000-08:00

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."

~Khalil Gibran

2011-03-08T01:21:00.000-08:00

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. Mark Twain

2011-03-07T01:33:00.000-08:00

"Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world."

~Pema Chödrön

2011-03-06T01:02:00.000-08:00

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

2011-03-05T00:31:00.000-08:00

"It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others....Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground."

~Pema Chödrön

2011-03-04T01:00:00.000-08:00

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw

2011-03-03T01:27:00.000-08:00

" The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to control them." ~Pema Chödrön

2011-03-02T01:43:00.000-08:00

"Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get." Frederick Douglas

2011-03-01T01:24:00.000-08:00

" Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what is going on, but that there is something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world." Pema Chödrön

2011-02-28T00:00:00.000-08:00

Work yourself to death, it's the only way to live. David Brown

2011-02-27T01:33:00.000-08:00

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." ~Khalil Gibran

2011-02-26T00:16:00.000-08:00

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W. C. Fields

2011-02-25T00:38:00.000-08:00

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." ~The Buddha

2011-02-24T00:11:00.000-08:00

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

2011-02-23T00:35:00.000-08:00

"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember." ~Khalil Gibran

2011-02-22T00:13:00.000-08:00

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson

2011-02-21T00:36:00.000-08:00

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." ~Khalil Gibran

2011-02-20T00:07:00.000-08:00

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? Vince Lombardi

2011-02-19T01:31:00.000-08:00

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." ~Khalil Gibran

2011-02-18T00:04:00.000-08:00

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults. Mitch Hedberg

2011-02-17T01:29:00.000-08:00

"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow." ~The Buddha

2011-02-16T00:01:00.000-08:00

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life. John Wooden

2011-02-15T01:32:00.000-08:00

"There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind." ~The Buddha

2011-02-14T00:55:00.000-08:00

Another definition of a friend is someone who adores you even though they know the things you are most ashamed of. Jodie Foster

2011-02-13T01:26:00.000-08:00

"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye." ~The Buddha

2011-02-12T00:52:00.000-08:00

Just because it's in style, doesn't mean it looks good on you! Dean Stattmann

2011-02-11T01:22:00.000-08:00

"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true."

~The Buddha

2011-02-10T00:50:00.000-08:00

Religious or not, nobody going through a tough time minds hearing "You are in our prayers" Brian Gotta

2011-02-09T01:19:00.000-08:00

"The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness." ~The Buddha

2011-02-08T01:09:00.000-08:00

My wife is smarter than me, stronger than me, and within six months would be just fine without me. A guy should always pay attention to his relationships. Russell Bryan Love

2011-02-07T01:15:00.000-08:00

"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom." ~The Buddha

2011-02-06T01:06:00.000-08:00

The fact that curiosity killed the cat is not an argument for not being curious; it's and argument for not being a cat. John Alejondro King

2011-02-05T01:12:00.000-08:00

"Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world."

The Buddha

2011-02-04T01:05:00.000-08:00

True friendship is when you would go to jail for a month so your friend didn't have to go for a year. Joseph Carpenter

2011-02-03T01:07:00.000-08:00

"The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings." ~The Buddha

2011-02-02T01:00:00.000-08:00

Your children may rat on you, your spouse will fire back at you. But if your not kind to your dog, what can they do? A big test of how kind a human being is comes with how well he treats his pets. Ted Danson

2011-02-01T01:01:00.000-08:00

"Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."

~The Buddha

2011-01-30T00:43:00.000-08:00

It is easy to point out the mistakes of others, while it is hard to admit one´s own mistakes. A man broadcasts the sins of others without thinking, but he hides his own sins as a gambler hides his extra dice."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

2011-01-28T00:42:00.000-08:00

"When you think everything is someone else´s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. Pride leads to violence and evil. The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

2011-01-26T00:39:00.000-08:00

"All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

2011-01-25T00:04:00.000-08:00

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

2011-01-24T00:37:00.000-08:00

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

2011-01-22T00:35:00.000-08:00

"My actions are my only true belongings."

2011-01-20T00:34:00.000-08:00

"When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love."

2011-01-19T01:00:00.000-08:00

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

2011-01-18T00:32:00.000-08:00

"Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love."

2011-01-16T00:30:00.000-08:00

"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."

~Thich Nhat Hanh

2011-01-14T00:27:00.000-08:00

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything."

~Thich Nhat Hanh

2011-01-12T00:25:00.000-08:00

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."

~The Buddha

2011-01-11T00:58:00.000-08:00

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams

2011-01-10T00:54:00.000-08:00

"The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life."

2011-01-09T00:51:00.000-08:00

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

2011-01-08T00:47:00.000-08:00

"The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy."

2011-01-07T00:46:00.000-08:00

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain

2011-01-06T00:42:00.000-08:00

"Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible."

2011-01-05T00:41:00.000-08:00

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. Milne

2011-01-04T00:39:00.000-08:00

"We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize."

Happy New Year

2011-01-01T00:20:00.000-08:00

I can't stop the war, Shelter homeless, feed the poor, I can't walk on water, I can't save your sons and daughters, I can't change the world and make things fair, But the least I can do Is care.

From the song "Care" by Kid Rock off the Born Free CD, buy it today.

2010-12-31T01:31:00.000-08:00

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot this year, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha

2010-12-30T01:28:00.000-08:00

Even after many years, many of us continue to practice harshly. We practice with guilt, as if we're going to be excommunicated if we don't do it right. We practice so we won't be ashamed of ourselves and with fear that someone will discover what a "bad" meditator we really are. The old joke is that a Buddhist is someone who is either meditating or feeling guilty about not meditating. There's not much joy in that."

~Pema Chödrön

2010-12-29T01:34:00.000-08:00

If I were a tree among trees, a cat among animals, this life would have a meaning, or rather this problem would not arise, for I should belong to this world. I should be this world to which I am now opposed by my whole consciousness and my whole insistence upon familiarity. This ridiculous reason is what sets me in opposition to all creation. I cannot cross it out with a stroke of a pen.... Albert Camus

2010-12-28T01:32:00.000-08:00

"A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering."

~The Buddha

2010-12-27T01:38:00.000-08:00

I cannot tell if what the world considers 'happiness' is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.... ~Chuang-tzu

2010-12-26T01:36:00.000-08:00

Where there is love, there is pain. Danish Proverb

Merry Christmas

2010-12-24T00:01:00.000-08:00

And perhaps we give a little to the poor if the generosity should seize us, but if any of us should interfere in the business of why there are poor they get the same as the Rebel Jesus.

But pardon me if I have seemed to take the tone of judgement, for I've not wished to come between this day and your enjoyment.

In a life of hardship and earthly toil there is a need for anything that frees us. So I bid you pleasure and I bid you cheer from a heathen and a pagan on the side of the Rebel Jesus.

Jackson Browne

2010-12-23T00:56:00.000-08:00

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
Stephen Leacock

2010-12-22T00:58:00.000-08:00

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

2010-12-21T00:01:00.000-08:00

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling. Edna Ferber

2010-12-20T00:02:00.000-08:00

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." ~Thich Nhat Hanh