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Friday, January 20, 2012

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...

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 L...

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...

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...

Buddhism and Quotes

Buddhism has many wise sayi...

Monday, January 9, 2012

Introduction to The First Buddhist Council and the Bhāņakas

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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...

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

Sunday, January 8, 2012

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...

Friday, January 6, 2012

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 ambitio...

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,...

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 moti...

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...

Cheers & Have A Nice Day

A wise man once sat in the audience & cracked a joke. All laughed like crazy. After a moment he cracked the same joke again and a little less people laughed this time. He cracked the same joke again & again, when there was no laughter in the crowd, he smiled and said, “When u can’t laugh on the same joke again & again, then why do u keep crying over the same thing over and over again” ‘Learn to move on’… Cheers & Have A Nice Day!...

ALBERT EINSTEIN FAILED HIS UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAM

In 1895, at the age of 17, Einstein, one of the greatest minds ever born actually failed his university entrance exam into the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School. Actually he passed the Science and the Math sections, but failed in the rest of it like History and Geography. When asked later about this, he said that they were too boring and he didn’t feel like answering them correct...

Ten Nations Where Facebook Rules The Internet

Ten Nations Where Facebook Rules The Internet 10. Venezuela Facebook: 86.2% 9. Colombia Facebook: 86.9% 8. Peru Facebook: 87.2% 7. Indonesia Facebook: 87.5% 6. Malaysia Facebook: 88.4% 5. Argentina Facebook: 89.2% 4. Chile Facebook: 90.2% 3. Turkey Facebook: 90.9% 2. Israel Facebook: 91.0% 1. PHILIPPINES Facebook: 93...

Ancient Sea Monsters

Oarfish, also known as ribbonfish and king of herrings, is a deep water creature that can grow up to a size of 50 feet (15 meters) in length and weigh up to 600 pounds (272 kg). This deep sea creature is officially the longest bony fish living at a depth of between 66 feet and 1000 feet. It is known that when oarfish gets sick or is near to death it comes on the surface of the water and sometimes to the shore, that’s why we have ancient tales of seeing sea serpents coming out of the water surface. A 16 feet oarfish that was found on the shore of Bermuda beach in 1860 was described as sea serpent (image below). There are no scales on...

A girl and a guy are on a motorcycle

Girl: This is really scary, slow down! Guy: No, I'm having too much fun! Girl: Please stop! Guy: First hug me Girl: *hugs* Guy: Tell me you love me Girl:I love you, can you slow down now? Guy: Can you take my helmet off and put it on yourself? It's bugging me Girl: *puts on helmet* Next Day's Headlines: There was an accident involving a motocycle accident. There were two people riding the motorcycle at the time of impact. The vehicle was speeding out of control and drove off road and into a building. Only one of the two people died. What Really Happened: Half way through the ride the guy noticed that the brakes were gone, but he didn't want...

FACTS ABOUT TITANIC. NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

 Here is something to share to all my friends who has watched Titinic movies so many times. The facts are very true! -March 31, 1909 in Belfast (Ireland) -The Titanic was constructed by the Harland & Wolff company - Titanic construction took about 3 years and $7.5 million to complete - It took around 3000 laborers to construct the Titanic - Of the 2, 227 people aboard the Titanic, only 705 survived - Many Titanic survivor diaries were discovered and illustrated the despair involved with the Titanic - The death of Captain Edward Smith is a topic of debate; many think the Titanic could have been saved if he acted differently, some...

The huge crocodile caught in Manilla, Philippines

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Friends are Our Family too

Friends are also our family. The family is not always our blood relations but friends are people in our life who want to be part of our lives. They are the people who would be with us in life. So, let's value their friendship and take them as our own fami...

Father Loves for a Daughter

This short story is taken from Facebook. The love of father for this innocent daughter was so deep. One day an 11 year old girl asked her daddy, "What are you going to get me for my 15th birthday?" The father replied, "There is much time left." When the girl was 14 she fainted and was rushed to the hospital. The doctor came out and told her dad she had a bad heart& she is probably gonna die ... When she was lying in the hospital bed she said "Daddy,. have they told you i am going to die ?" The father replied no you will live as he left weeping. She said "How can you be sure." He turned around from the door and said "I know." She turns 15...

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Democracy in Buddhism

Buddha is the first one who introduced the democracy. When he was enlightened, he found many disciples who could follow him. But as 20 years passed, alot of monks and lay community built, and few criticism arose, then Buddha gave few disciplinary rules to follow everytime there arose some problems. Buddha even sent 60 Arahants to different parts of India to preach and advise people. Buddha had connection with kings, millionaires, rice and poor people equally. Buddha even knew that, these monks are good for this thing and those monks are good for that thing etc. In modern day, in Thailand even, we find Sangha Administration Act: Council of...

Dhamma in Daily Life

We never know that our life would be so meaningful if we apply Dhamma in our daily life and activities. Some people know the secret of how to be peaceful while they enjoy the action they do. Some people do action with their mindfulness and awareness by which means they are calm and attentive in what they are doing without regret. Buddhism is more like lively and applicable teachings in our life. Life could be so meaningful if we know how to practise and use the time constantly calm with mindful. There are many things in life which can be hectic to our life and sometimes we feel boring and tiring with our life. So, when we practise the daily...

Meditate on Full Moon

Meditation is very important. Buddhist poeple meditate especially on Full Moon days. There are some lunatic which is said that some people becomes lunatic because the power of the moon can do some strange thing to the brain and some do many strange things or feelings on Full Moon Days. If we see the river, ocean or lake, you will see and observe some special things in them. Meditation can save you from many life obstacles and danger. People with calm mind can know and observe the feelings and their actions. So, let's pay some attention to our feelings and mind especially on Full moon days and ofcourse there are half-moon, quater moon, Full...

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Honouring the Departed

When we are too young, we never care that we would grow old and die one day. When we feel healthy and nice, we often forget that we will suffer or die again. Buddhist belief in rebirth and cycle of rebirth. It is said that we are going to be born according to our action, merits and demerits. But Buddhism aims the high goal which will be stopped birth forever and no more pain again. Recently many educated people found out articles and researches on rebirth. Honouring the departed one is useful because some people when they were alive did not care of doing merits or helping and seeing their own actions. After that few people roam around for helps...

Innocent and Kind

Let's be innocent and kind just like small child to whom animal or human are equal. The child feels that animal also part of her or his life. He or she feels that the animal also can be our best frie...

Care for Animals

I think that, every beings on earth love happiness, care, share and joy. No one in this world would love to suffer. Human beings are the most intelligent and clever beings and they should be highly kind enough to other innocent beings who would feel safety in us. Many domestic animals feel safe and nice with human beings because they take care and understand the feelings of another. If we are real human beings, can't we share some love to the animals? They would be happy in their lifetime to be near us, and play with us around making our life more nice and enjoyable too. They would be nice to us also if we are nice to th...

Cruelty to Animal

 I don't know why some people are so cruel to animals. They never treate them as they have lives, pain, hunger etc. We like to be happy so they do too. Their lives are short and they need to be happy more. Let's see this picture in this short article how bad few kids did to this innocent dog. Some kids placed strong firecracker in the mouth of this animal and made sure he could not open it. The world is like this. To these kids it must have been a macabre fun for a few minutes and then they continued with their life like nothing happened. To this animal, his life ended during those minutes, with a pain so deep that is better to forget. If...

Kalama Sutta: Do not simply belief anything

Sometimes in our life, we can not simply belief anything because it can later becomes false. In Kalama Sutta Buddha stated clearly that:  Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing, nor upon tradition, nor upon rumor, nor upon what is in a scripture, nor upon surmise, nor upon an axiom, nor upon specious reasoning, nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over, nor upon another's seeming ability, nor upon the consideration, "The monk is our teacher." Kalamas, when you yourselves know: "These things are good; these things are not blamable; these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed, these...

Compassion We Need Today

In Buddhism, loving-kindness, compassion and equinimity are encouraged. Sometimes through kindness towards others can heal someone sorrows just as compassiond does too. A little help to someone can generate a lot of kindness in others too. Helping and thinking of others can heal the whole world which is now a day so important without being so selfish. Dalai Lama used to say, "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives." Another important thing he said is that "If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least...

Buddhism and Peace

This is my idea related short article. The world's population of people has increased and want of people also has increased so the crisis and increase of violence everywhere. Buddhism is one of the peace and respectable religion standing in the world of violence and crisis. Buddhism recently gained the praise of the Best Religion in the world given by all the religious leaders in the world. The Buddhist countries has less violence and war where many of the other religious faiths should try to take some examples from one another without discrimination. Now a day, Buddhism has widely spread from Asia to the West. Buddhism encourages in purification...

Teachings of Siddhartha Gautama

Buddha sometimes used to teach related to these topics:1. Control your thoughts2. Resist evil,3. Free your mind of evil,4. Work for the good of others,5. Respect life,6. Know the truth,7. Say nothing to hurt others,8. Practice meditat...

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Be Patient and Calm

People always forget to see their heart. The mind and heart always not stable and steady. It always changes, if we don't control or see our feelings, it can give arise to new bad thought which can give result to bad action. Let us be patient endure ourself so that we can discipline ourself and othe...

Beautiful thing to be at present

It is most beautiful thing to be present and keep our mind steady and nice. Buddhist people meditate to on present moment so that neither their past nor future can give them pain and worry for their lifetime. Thich Nhat Hanh is famous for advsing people to be at present which is most beautiful things. Sometimes, people can enjoy a cup of tea if they really enjoy it with their present mome...

Gossip and hatred on others

Some poeple in the world loves gossip about others. Some people always worry about others others and take headache on others which is not necessary for them. They never look back to them and realize for themself which is important too. Buddha used to advise some disciples, not gossip or talk about useless things but to talk about good and important points on life when talking together.There are some people i have seen where they find happy when they can talk and gossip about others. If they sit for a while and recollect themself what good and bad they did today, it would so nice for them and for othe...

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