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BEFORE AND AFTER

Before practising the Dharma,
Passion* > Compassion**

During practising the Dharma,
Compassion > Passion

After perfecting practice of the Dharma,
Compassion = 100%
Passion = 0%

*Passion - Love for someone with attachment.
**Compassion - Love for everyone without attachment.

CHANGE

Being Buddhist is simple.
Understand impermanence of everything
and continually change for the better.

ONE
When you are all alone...
Do you often seek the company of another?
If so, that means you are poisoned by the Three Poisons already-

Craving for company

Aversion for loneliness.

Ignorance that causes the above.

When alone,
learn to be at one with yourself and the world;
don't be the loneliest one in the world.
You are complete,

you are whole.

Source: The Daily Enlightenment
www.budhanet.net

LITTLE BY LITTLE

I resolve to do it all little by little. I'm referring to walking my spiritual path. No, don't get me wrong, I'm not being lazy or procrastinating. I hereby resolve to, everyday:

Meditate a little (fifteen minutes to an hour)
Chant a little (Morning Puja and Evening Puja on the bus to and from work)
Reflect a little (realise one important thing a day, like this realisation!)
Help a little (make sure my day brings joy to at least one person)
Study a little (studying Dharma books before I go to bed and in my spare time)

Yes, little by little, here and there, I will work towards Enlightenment. I will saturate my everyday life with Dharma and be ever mindful. Steady, steady! Don't ever get burnt out spiritually! There is nothing as terrible as that! The rabbit didn't win the race. The tortoise was slow but steady, and he persevered humbly, realistically.

BAD MOOD

Don't think you have a valid excuse for "bad" behaviour when you are moody (in a bad mood).

Don't think you can just say something offensive, followed by, "Sorry, I didn't mean that. I'm in a bad mood today." You can't just walk away like that. Do you expect others to understand that and forgive you-again and again when you do it again and again? We can control our moods-we are our master.

Master your Mind
or be
Mastered by Mind.

Not a single angry word slipped out of the Buddha's lips even when the party He was talking to cursed and swore at Him. Nope-no moody blues for He who is ever mindful and is a master of His mind. Don't want any excuse from you again!

Source: The Daily Enlightenment
www.budhanet.net

KALMA SUTTA

Do not believe in anything simply because You have heard it

Do not believe in traditions because They have been handed down from many generations

Do not believe in anything because It is spoken and rumored by many

Do not believe in anything simply because It is found written in religious books

Do not believe in anything merely On the authority of your teachers and elders

But after observation and analysis When you find anything that agrees with reason and Is conductive to the good and benefit of one and All, the accept and live up to it

Source: The Daily Enlightenment
www.buddhanet.net

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