ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

Robert Thurman

 Anger sweeps you away. When you’re angry, you lose about 85% of your good judgment. It dominates your mind, body, and speech. You say things you don’t mean, hurt people you care about, and often feel regret afterward. From a Buddhist perspective, anger never helps—it always leads to suffering.

However, if we redefine anger as a strong energy, a kind of moral indignation or determination to act against injustice, then it can have a positive side. But you have to stay in control. Shantideva, the great Buddhist philosopher, said: “Intervene in the situation while you’re still cheerful.”

The moment you start feeling frustration turn into destructive anger, you should either act skillfully or step away. If you can help the situation, do it. If not, don’t let anger poison your mind. And if you really want to destroy something—destroy anger itself. That’s the one thing worth eradicating.

PEACE

 

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

 Our sense of ego, our distorted understanding of our true nature, this is very much associated with the past and the future. So, even when we think we’re in the present, we’re thinking about the present, we’re not actually experiencing here and now, so everything which we see and hear, immediately we start commenting. We start comparing and judging and so forth. It’s very hard to see anything just as it is without clothing it in all our ideas.

Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

  I had awakened from the slumber of life’s dream only to realize that I am not just a single wave (separate self); I had always been the entire ocean (the formless, Eternal Dreamer).  

When you come to the profound discovery that there are no ‘others’ apart from you; then you will get to experience the perfect bliss of your unbroken wholeness.

Emptiness Dancing Adyashanti

 There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your demand on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. Your demands keep you chained to the dream state of conditioned mind. The problem is that when there is a demand, you completely miss what is now. Letting go applies to the highest sacred demand, and even to the demand for love. If you demand in some subtle way to be loved, even if you get love, it is never enough. In the next moment, the demand reasserts itself, and you need to be loved again. But as soon as you let go, there is knowing in that instant that there is love here already. The mind is afraid to let go of its demand because the mind thinks that if it lets go, it is not going to get what it wants - as if demanding works. This is not the way things work. Stop chasing peace and stop chasing love, and your heart becomes full. Stop trying to be a better person, and you are a better person. Stop trying to forgive, and forgiveness happens. Stop and be still.

Year of the Snake art by Marcos Alvarado

 

Eckhart Tolle.

 

“The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: Millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.”

Yoga Vashistha

 Between two thoughts

there is an interval of no thought.

That interval is the Self, the Atman.

It is pure Awareness only.

Rumi

 "The very center of your heart is where life begins - the most beautiful place on earth..."