Wealth.

 

"The definition of wealth has changed.

Wealth now is having more money, wealth means

a car, big house, accounts in banks, etc,etc,

While  the real wealth is,

when you know, when to say,

this is enough.

in other words,

contentment."

 

(Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche)



Scripture Of No Letters.

 

"Fresh, pure, dewy flowers,

birds singing, clear and bright,

calm clouds, blue waters,

Who has written the true words of no letters?

 

Lofty mountains, green trees,

deep valleys, lucid streams,

soft winds, serene moon,

I calmly read, the true words of no letters."

 

(Zenkei Shibayama 1894-1974)



The Four Immeasurables.

 

"To others who are more fortunate, practice

MUDITA, sympathetic joy,

this is an antidote to envy and jealousy.

 

To others who are less fortunate, practice

 KARUNA, compassion,

this is sympathy extended to all sentient beings,

takes away the heaviness of the heart, it gives wings.

 

To all sentient beings, practice

METTA, loving kindness,

this overcomes anger, hatered, ill will & aversions.

 

To the self, practice UPEKKHA, equanimity,

this gives mind a balanced mind, and rooted inside."

 

(essential Buddhism)



Namaste.

 

"Namaste,

I honor the place in you

in which the entire universe dwells,

I honor the place in you

which is of love, of truth, of light and peace,

When you are in that place in you,

And I am in that place in mine,

WE ARE ONE ."



Inner peace.

 

Signs and symptoms of inner peace.

 

*An increasing tendency to let things happen

rather than make them happen.

*An ability to enjoy each moment.

*A loss of interest in judging others.

*A loss of inerest in judging self.

*A loss interest of conflict.

*A loss ability to worry.

*Overwhelming episodes of appreciations.

*Connected with people and nature.

*Frequent attack of smiling.

 

(Saskia Davis)

 



Father and daughter.

 

Father and daughter.

(Paul Simon)

 

If you keep awake

In the mirror of a bad dream

and for a fraction of a second

you can't remember where you are

just open your window

 and follow your memory upstream

to the meadow in the mountain,

where we counted every falling star,

 

I believe a light that shines you

will shine on you forever

and though I can't guarantee

there's nothing scary hiding under your bed,

I'm gonna stand guard like a postcard

of a golden retriver

and never leave 'till I leave

with a sweet dream in your bed,

 

I'm gonna watch you shine

gonna watch you grow

gonna paint a sign

so you'll always know

as long as one and one is two,

there could never be a father who loved

his daughter more than I love you.

 



Metta.

 

"May I be safe and protected,

May I be peaceful and happy,

May I be healthy and strong,

May I have ease of well beings, and

accepted all conditions of the world."

 

(Metta, loving kindness meditation)



Remembrance.

 

"And you wait, keep waiting for one thing,

which would infinitely enrich your life,

maybe rare, maybe mighty, maybe uplifting,

depth that would reveal you to yourself,

 

In the dusk you notice the piles of books that muse you,

with their volumes in gold and brown,

and you think of far lands you've travelled,

of pictures of shimmering inspiring women,

 

And it comes to you all of a sudden,

you arise, for you are aware

of years in your distant past,

with it's fears,

and events,

and maybe a little prayers."

 

(Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926)



Without resistance.

 

"It is the mark of an educated mind

to be able to entertain a thought

without accepting it."

 

(Aristotle)



Refuge.

 

"To aquire the habit of reading,

is to construct for yourself

a refuge from

almost all the miseries of life."

 

(W Sommerset Maugham)





Preserve nature.

"Leave nothing but footprints,

Take nothing but pictures,

Kill nothing but time."