9 Quotes on The Causes of Happiness
Daniel | May 10, 2008People must realize that even with all these comforts, all this money and a GNP that increases every year, they are still not happy. They need to understand that the real culprits are our unceasing desires. Our wants have no end.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
If you turn your light inwardly, you will find what is esoteric within you.
-The Sutra of Hui Neng
Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.
-Kathleen McDonald
Plunge boldly into the Beyond, then be free wherever you are.
-Shoitsu
Just as a monkey roaming through the forest grabs hold of one branch, lets that go and grabs another, then lets go and grabs still another, so too that which is called “mind” and “mentality” and “consciousness” arises as one thing and ceases as another by day and by night.
-Buddha
If we do not try, we will not know.
-Ayya Khema
Irrigators guide the water. Fletchers shape the arrow shaft.
Carpenters shape the wood. The wise control themselves.
-Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
If you have a reason, you don’t need to shout.
-Zen proverb
If 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
Thank you, Daniel: (from the lion's to the Leo)
infit | May 12, 2008 | 1:42 pmThank you, Daniel: (from the lion’s to the Leo) You are such a gentle teacher i almost felt that i was there. in the old nice warm oven being turned into someting nourshing, by being nourished with what felt like love to me. Toooooo bad it had to cool. Just eat a bunch when it is very warm and just out of the cooker. It is soooooo hard to be mature and patient and not self indulgent. Don’t i remember that you worked in the kitchen of the bad king and brought your own food, mindfullness to develop it and acceptance of will be done.
I feel like i know her son and techniques and see a resemble to a picture i have seen of my grand nephew who i have never seen in person also Scot and Irish and also Danish(?) How i do go on in the blissful state of huge pleasure of dreaming that turn to great saddness at separation. I am happy for you to be that guy. Maybe i can learn to make it, now that i called the repair man and learned that the service man had not hit the oven burner turn on valve and wanted a return call???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for that in this nice day dream. Maybe i can learn to bake bread so i can break bread gently.
L
May have also found Peter’s original house. Will call his sister, if she is still here. Would not make a good Royal Family, but like being in the neighborhood of the Giant GOoD People, not necessarily the Gop.
Think i could fix up a chicken shed on the river and move to the top of the mountain for a visit occasionally. Think that the valley house will tu rn into a parking lot for the Casino. Haven’t called the bank yet to see if the credit cards were used. Time to go back to tidying up, before i have to rest from pneumenia, is that the new name for Whooping Cough that i think i picked u p from some one who was in school in Richmond. Who knows, only God, i am not in charge.
Hope you are having a good day
LOL