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A good article on teaching values and respect to a young child
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Remedies for disturbing emotions can either reduce them or totally eradicate them. There are different remedies for different emotions. The remedy against anger and aggression is to cultivate love and wish to help others. The remedy against craving, desire, and strong attraction towards an object is to consider its defects, to see what is not attractive about it and thus reduce the attachment to it. Reflection on how everything is illusory and without a true existence prevents arrogance from arising. Opinionated views also need strong wisdom as their remedy. In fact, whether you are striving for full liberation or the bodhisattva ideal, you must follow the path of wisdom in order to discard disturbing emotions. All these emotions needs to be handled with wisdom.” —His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Having courage means engaging in every single situation as a blessing from God, as a loving gesture of nature. Courage means rising to meet the demands of each moment with total delight, knowing you are equal to it. Courage means having faith that within you is an innate force whose essence is never deleted by external events. Live your life courageously, dharmically, knowing that whatever you are faced with is not stronger than you are, nor it is smaller. This approach is a dharmic way of living. This is a courage. You look at your problem as your equal, never greater or smaller. And therefore, you can rise to the demands of each moment. With great delight you are able to face and accept whatever comes yoyr way.” “From Sadhana of the Heart-Gurumayi”
Enthusiasm is God’s energy
A little child constantly experiences wonder. Everything about life tingles and activates curiosity in the being of a child. Children come into this world with an inner smile and eyes that want to grasp the magic of universe. Bbeing with children,parents relive their youth, whatever their age may be. This sense of wonder, which is the essence of life,continually creates fresh life. — “From Sadhana of the Heart-Gurumayi”
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust, Copied from Gardening with Soule
“The mantra Om Mani Päme Hum is easy to say yet quite powerful, because it contains the essence of the entire teaching. When you say the first syllable Om it is blessed to help you achieve perfection in the practice of generosity, Ma helps perfect the practice of pure ethics, and Ni helps achieve perfection in the practice of tolerance and patience. Pä, the fourth syllable, helps to achieve perfection of perseverance, Me helps achieve perfection in the practice of concentration, and the final sixth syllable Hum helps achieve perfection in the practice of wisdom.
“So in this way recitation of the mantra helps achieve perfection in the six practices from generosity to wisdom. The path of these six perfections is the path walked by all the Buddhas of the three times. What could then be more meaningful than to say the mantra and accomplish the six perfections?”
— Gen Rinpoche, Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones. “Om mani pame hum”
Gradually,I’ve come to realize that the computer diverts our attention from more important things: friends,family,neighborhood.
The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it.
What feeling is no nice as a child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm. – Marjorie Homes,American Writer
In my country, aged people have the right to live with younger people. It is the grandparents who tell fairy tales to the children. When they get old, their skin is cold and wrinkle, and it is a great joy for them to hold their grandchild, so warm and tender. – nhat hanh, Vietnamese writer and peace Activist.
“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, nothing will be impossible for you” – This is my magic manthra and it sure works.
At the end of life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning on emore verdict, or not closing one more deal. you will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend,or a parent.
“This fine talent (homemaking) is neglected nowadays and considered old-fashioned, which is a sad mistake..It is the most beautiful as well as useful of all arts..not so romantic,perhaps, as singing, painting,writing, or teaching, but one that makes many people happy & comfortable.-Louisa may Alcott(1832-1888)
“To love someone is to learn the song in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
“Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.”
