#bud

The essence of the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) is about identifying the cause of our suffering & alleviating it. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #inspirational #inspirational

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspiration #inspirational

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#inspirational #meditation #inspirational

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#inspiration #meditation #wisdom #inspirational

Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#inspiration #meditation #inspirational

What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something. ↗

— Kentetsu Takamori

#buddhism #japan #religion #spirituality #life

Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent. ↗

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#intelligence

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes. ↗

— Herman Melville

#herman-melville #innocence #intelligence #sailor #intelligence

Even if lifelong A fool attends upon a wise man, He no more knows dhammas Than a spoon knows the flavours of soup. Even if for a moment An intelligent man attends upon a wise man, He quickly knows dhammas As the tongue knows the flavours of soup. ↗

— Anonymous

#fools #intelligence #vv- #intelligence

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#guns #military #military-budget #politics #poverty