It’s unavoidable for every one to face the eight worldly conditions except for the enlightened one or the noble one whose mind is kept calm and collected no matter what pleasant or unpleasant objects come to him/her
A sharpened knife without a sheath or a dangerous bomb without a safety bolt: they could be equally advantageous or disadvantageous depending, because of their lack of a controlling mechanism.
The term ‘world’ in Buddhist terminology means more than just our planet. It means:
Comfortably lean up against the back of a chair and gently close your eyes. Yes, right. You are feeling all your thoughts passing through your mind one after another,
There is one interesting point of life. Only studying a lot to achieve great intelligence in order to have a good job and to earn a lot o9f money is not enough to be born as a human being
After having burned away grasses and having uprooted the fields, the gardeners and agriculturists quickly have to set seeds needed to be planted in the ground at once
The majority of people around the world from the Lord Buddha’s time until now have been under the misconception that success and failure in life depend mainly on the environment around them.
Faith is a major component of training ourselves to be good or bad. When we have good faith, it keeps us doing good. When we have bad faith, it causes us to do bad.
When we consider the subject of reforming human nature, the subject of this book, we mean the transformation process from the untrained to the well-trained mind.
Is there any place in the world that is without suffering? No. How come Prince Siddhartha became ordained?
