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Add to My Profile | More VideosIf you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but of your estimate of it: and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
There is suffering in life and there are defeats, no one can avoid them. But it is better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.It is hard to be born as a human being and hard to live the life of one. It is even harder to hear of the path and harder still to awake, to rise, and to follow.Yet the teaching is simple: "Cease to do evil, learn to do good. And purify your mind."-DhammapadaAlthough wishing to be rid of misery,
They run toward misery itself.
Although wishing to have happiness,
Like an enemy they ignorantly destroy it.-Santideva, "Bodhicaryavatara"Meditation is running into reality. It does not insulate you from the pain of life. It allows you to delve so deeply into life and all its aspects that you pierce the pain barrier and go beyond suffering.-Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English"Defiled by passion, the mind is not released. Defiled by ignorance, discernment does not develop. Thus from the fading of passion is there release of awareness. From the fading of ignorance is there release of discernment.-Anguttara NikayaIf we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.-Thich Nhat Hanh, "Being Peace"
