Buddhist in Training

lazyyogi:

Rumi

(Source: lazyyogi)

lazyyogi:

This body is the body of a future saint. This thought is the thought of a future sage. This self is the non-self of a future bodhisattva. We are the Enlightenment we have been waiting for. 

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dfwarner:

Amen.

(via justmeditating)

I am so glad someone made this, love it.

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wordslessspoken:

If you were already enlightened, what would you do? Now do that & don’t worry about becoming anything else. Enlightenment is as enlightenment does.

(Source: krazi-muzique)

makingthecanon:

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would love to join the Peace Corps

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findingstrengththroughpain:

5 ways to cultivate happiness

Happiness is a person choice that we make everyday. Your choices, thoughts and actions can influence your level of happiness. Below are some great tips for cultivating happiness:

1. Surround yourself with happy people. Being around people who are content buoys…

amusingera:

In the end these things will matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you learn to let go? 

-the Buddha

(via awakenedlotus)

Beads are mainly used to count mantras, which can be recited for four different purposes:

The beads used to count mantras intended to appease should be of crystal, pearl or mother of pearl, and should at least be clear or white in colour. A rosary for this purpose should have one hundred such beads. Mantras counted on these beads serve to clear away obstacles, such as illness and other calamities, and purify one of unwholesomeness.

The beads used with mantras intended to increase should be of gold, silver, copper or lotus seeds and a string of beads is made of 108 of them. The mantras counted on these serve to increase life span, knowledge and merit.

The beads used with mantras, which are intended to overcome, are made from a compound of ground sandal wood, saffron and other fragrant substances. There are twenty-five beads on this mala. The mantras counted on them are meant to tame others, but the motivation for doing so should be a pure wish to help other sentient beings and not to benefit oneself

The beads used to recite mantras aiming at subduing beings through forceful means should be made from raksha seeds or human bones in a string of sixty. Again, as the purpose should be absolutely altruistic, the only person capable of performing such a feat is a Bodhisattva motivated by great compassion for a being who can be tamed through no other means, for example extremely malicious spirits, or general afflictions, visualized as a dense black ball.

Beads made of Bodhi seed or wood can be used for many purposes, for counting all kinds of mantras, as well as other prayers, prostrations, circumambulations and so forth.

The string common to all beads should consist of nine threads, which symbolize Buddha Vajradhara and the eight Bodhisattvas. The large bead at the end stands for the wisdom which cognises emptiness and the cylindrical bead surmounting it, emptiness itself, both symbolize having vanquished all opponents.

Source:

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/b_beeds.htm  

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Laozi (via zenlikeme)

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santmat:

The Dhamapada Online: 1) the translation at Archive.org, which includes an audio/talking book option! 

http://www.Archive.org/stream/dhamapadasicorp00hazegoog#page/n18/mode/1up      

2) the  Juan Mascaro translation: http://www.lipscher.com/seth/dhamma1.htm    (Change the “1” in the url to “2” to move to the second chapter, and so on.)

Ketut, Eat Pray Love

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