On Conquering Hate
~The Dhammapada The Dhammapada (Pāli; Prakrit: धम्मपद Dhamapada; Sanskrit: धर्मपद Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. And here is a modern application of The great Cambodian spiritual teacher, Maha Ghosananda, once entered a refugee camp in Thailand. The Khmer Rouge regime had forbidden the practice of religion in Cambodia and the refugees had not seen a Buddhist monk in many years. There were refugees…
On Rains and Roses
- George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Her 1872 work, Middlemarch, has been described as the greatest novel in the English language by Martin Amis and by Julian…
Has your understanding improved with Age ? Test it now !
- From a VERY well known and loved Children's Story Can you GUESS which Story is the above passage from ? Be honest - NO Googling please ! ( You have most probably read, understood and enjoyed the above passage when you were " young " . Do you still do ? )
On Lanterns and “others”
- Nichiren Daishonin (Gosho Zenshu, p. 1598) Nichiren (February 16, 1222 – October 13, 1282) was a Buddhist monk who lived during the Kamakura period (1185–1333) in Japan. Nichiren taught devotion to the Lotus Sutra (entitled Myōhō-Renge-Kyō in Japanese)— which contained Gautama Buddha's teachings towards the end of his life — as the exclusive means to attain enlightenment. Nichiren believed that the sutra contained the essence of all of Gautama Buddha's teachings, of which related to the law of cause and effect and karma. This devotion to the sutra entails the chanting of Nam(u)-Myōhō-Renge-Kyō (referred to as "daimoku") as the…
On Giving
- Anne Frank Anne (12 June 1929 – early March 1945) , one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her diary has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. The Frank family moved from Germany to…
On Humans and Universe
- The E=MC2 Guy !