Wise Sayings

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me !
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius
Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.
Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.
I don’t know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
The best mind-altering drug is truth.
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.
Guns don’t kill people — people do.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
If you are not part of the cure, then you are part of the problem.
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
- Jonathan Kozel
The best things in life are not things.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
- Oscar Wilde
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Beware of a man of one book.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

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Saying

There is a saying in Tibetan that “at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar.” The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come from wealth, but from setting limits to one’s desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction. --> Dalai Lama

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Buddhism and Quotes

In what is seen, there should be just the seen;
In what is heard, there should be just the heard;
In what is sensed, there should be just the sensed;
In what is thought, there should be just the thought.

He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill.
Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world.
Sutta Nipata II,14

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Quotes on Buddhism

Develop the mind of equilibrium.
You will always be getting praise and blame,
but do not let either affect the poise of the mind:
follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
Sutta Nipata

One day Ananda, who had been thinking deeply about things for a while, turned to the Buddha and exclaimed:
"Lord, I've been thinking- spiritual friendship is at least half of the spiritual life!"
The Buddha replied: "Say not so, Ananda, say not so. Spiritual friendship is the whole of the spiritual life!"
Samyutta Nikaya, Verse 2

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Buddhism and Quotes

Buddhism has many wise sayings

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Introduction to The First Buddhist Council and the Bhāņakas

            In ancient India recitation and memorization were regarded as the only means for the preservation of records. From the vedic records it is known that this practice was followed in India in the early vedic period. Thought the succession of teachers, the Buddha’s speeches, sayings, discourse and conversation were handed down orally from generation to generation. It should be noted that at the time nobody took the serious notice to preserve the Buddha’s actual words properly. It is told in the Mahāparinibbāna Sutta of Dīghanikāya that the Buddha himself has told his disciples someday there will be a misinterpretation of his doctrine or teaching and for this reason the Buddha gave them a talk and wanted to verify his words in four days. He feared that His teachings might be misrepresented and for this reason he warned them to be realized that His prophesy came true and they faced various difficulties in the Saºgha. When all the Buddha’s followers with the exception of Anāgamis and Arahants were plunged in deep grief and were weeping and lamenting, but and immoral Bhikkhu named Subhadda., Who had entered the order in his old age, was the only one that rejoiced over his death.

So these unexpected words fell from the lips of a disciple, alarmed to hear these words and they thought that his talks might disturb the peaceful atmosphere of the Sangha. And it induced venerable Mahākassapa, the third chief disciple of the Buddha to hold a council of leading Arahants in order to protect and fortify the Sasana. In the history of Buddhism this council became known as the first Buddhist council. In this council the Dharma and the Vinaya were settled. At that time there was no separate existence of the Abhidhamma. It was then regarded as the part of the Dharma. It is to be noted that the traditionl teachings of the Buddha were then collected under the two principal divisions, which were known as the Dharma and Vinaya.

From the time of the Buddha until first century A.D. Buddhist teachings were preserved in oral tradition. From generation to generation, different portions of teachings were handed down. The first beginning of this tradition, which is called Bhānakas, was at the first Buddhist council. According to the Pali records available today on the first Buddhist council after the collection and classification of the teachings. They were entrusted to different groups of monks their duty was to learn by hard the given teachings, protect it well, not allow it to be polluted and handed down the teachings to next generation safely to be protected for future. In this process learning by hard and constant reciting was very important. Therefore these monks came to be called reciters (Bhānakas).

From the five hundred monks who participated in the first Buddhist council, a few prominent monks were selected to be the heads of the Bhānakas. At the first council the teachings of the Buddha, both the Dharma and Vinaya, were entrusted to monks as follows.         

                                                                                     

                                 Teachings                          Bhāņakas

1.	Vinaya pitaka	Ven. Upali and his disciples
2.	Dīghanikāya	Ven. Ānanda and his disciples
3.	Majjhimanikāya	Disciples of Ven. Sāriputta
4.	Samyuttanikāya	Ven. Mahākassapa and disciples
5.	Anguttaranikāya	Ven. Anuruddha and his disciples
6.	Khuddakanikāya including Abhidhamma pitaka	All monks

                          

The Tipitaka is an extensive body of canonical Pāli literature in which are enshrined the teaching of Gotama Buddha expounded for forty-five years form the time of his enlightenment to Parinibbāna.

The discourses of the Buddha in Dīgha covers a vast area of subjects and are made up of exhortations, expositions and injunctions. The general discourses and sermons given in this are intended mostly for both the Bhikkhus and lay disciples, delivered by the Buddha on various occasion together with a few discourses delivered by some of the distinguished disciples, are collected and classified in great divisions known as the Suttanta pitaka.

The philosophy aspect of the Buddha’s teaching, more profound and abstract then the discourses of the Suttanta pitaka, is classified under the great divisions known as the Abidhamma Pitaka. Abhidhamma deals with ultimate Truths, expounds ultimate truths and investigate mind, matter, and the relationship between them.

            All that the Buddha’s taught forms the subject matter and substance of the Pāli canon, which is divided into these three divisions called Pitakas. Literally it means three baskets or three separate divisions of the Buddha’s teaching.

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Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk living in France. He teaches about peace in a simple English and can be understood by anyone. These two pictures can show some deeper thought to you. Just see them and try to understand the short advise in them.

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Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama importantly talked on how Compassion (Karuna) can change the human beings and the world. The four things are important thinking them in the bigger perspective.

1. Universal humanitarianism is essential to solve global problems;
2. Compassion is the pillar of world peace;
3. All world religions are already for world peace in this way, as are all humanitarians of whatever ideology;
4. Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

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World's Oldest Chicken

Usually chicken only live about 8-9 years old and then died, but this chicken breaks the world’s records as the chicken with the longest life span. A 77 years old man named Yang Shaofudari from Sidazhuang Baoshan Village Yunnan Province China is proposing to pets named in the Guinness Book world record book, where Yang has a chicken that has been aged 22 years or equal with 400 years human age.
One local veterinarian said at the Xiamen Daily News that chickens generally have 8-9 years of age can occasionally longer until 12 years but it is very difficult to find a chicken that was more than that.
Until now, the chicken which he bought on 1988 was still alive and healthy, but it’s just a lot of her appetite has decreased. Yang gave it corn and other animal feed for his chicken. The Owner is determined to care for these pets to death.

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Nalanda

Nalanda, one of the first great universities recorded in history was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. It accommodated over 2,000 teachers and 10,000 students from all over the world and studied more than 60 subjects. The subjects taught at Nalanda University covered every field of learning, and it attracted pupils and scholars from Korea, Japan, China, Tibet, Indonesia, Persia and Turkey.

On 13 September 2010, the Jakarta Globe Reported Parliament in New Delhi passed a bill approving plans to rebuild the campus as a symbol of India’s global ambitions.

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Unconditional Love

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Franciso.
"Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to bring home with me"
"Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him." "There's something you should know the son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mine and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us."
"I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live."
"No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us." "Son," said the father, "you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live his own."
At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few a days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police.
Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide.
The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son.
They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know.
Their son had only one hand and one leg.

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THE SAILING STONES

THE SAILING STONES , also referred to as sliding rocks or moving rocks, are a geological puzzling phenomenon found in California, Death Valley. These rocks, some as heavy as 300 Kilograms, are mysteriously transported across a virtually flat desert plain without human or animal intervention, leaving erratic trails in the hard mud behind them, some hundreds of yards long. They move by some mysterious force, and in the nine decades since we have known about them, no-one has ever seen them in motion.

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A Blind Girl

There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she was blind. she hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. he was always there for her. she said that if one day she could see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.

one day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and she could see everything, including her boyfriend. her boyfriend asked her, " now that you can see the world, will you marry me? " the girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend was blind too and refused to marry him.her boyfriend walked away in tears, and wrote a letter to her saying... " just take care of my eyes dear. i'll always love you forever… ”

this is how human brain changes when the status changed. only few remember what life was before, and who's always been there even in the most painful situations...

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