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Posts tagged with "True Happiness"
Mar. 30 | Impermanence is not just
about the end of all things,
but their renewal too.
- Stonepeace (Get Books)
Having learnt about the truth of impermanence of all things material in this life, of the value of living with more contentment and less excesses, and...
Mar. 21 | As you can only have one thought in each moment,
you only have to take care of your mind in this moment.
This is how mindfulness is practised
from moment to moment, for all moments.
- Stonepeace
‘The sure way to know if a person
has the good karma...
Aug. 10 | Your life’s happiness
is directly proportional
to mindfulness of life itself.
While unmindfulness prolongs suffering,
Right Mindfulness lessens suffering,
and approaches True Happiness.
- Stonepeace
When we speak of the cultivation of Right Mindfulness...
Jun. 14 | Compassion is the root
[beginning] of the Buddha path.
[the path to Buddhahood].
- Nagarjuna (The Treatise on Perfection of Wisdom)
There is this adage… To ‘be good for goodness’ sake’; instead of being good for pleasing anyone...
May. 2 | Question: What is lasting and stable happiness? How does one knows if one has reached this stage?
Answer: Lasting and stable happiness is best embodied and expressed by the Buddha. It is the peaceful and blissful state of mind that is unperturbed by...
Mar. 21 | The supreme path to Buddhahood
includes supreme guidance of others
to the same supreme goal.
- Stonepeace
He who has realised Truth, Nirvana, is the happiest being in the world. He is free from all ‘complexes’ and obsessions, the worries and troubles...
Oct. 3 | The ultimate way to True Happiness for one’self’
is to be the ultimate guide to True Happiness for others
[i.e. to be a Buddha].
When one becomes a selfless ‘source’ of True Happiness,
one will never run out of it for one’self’...
Sep. 12 | Everyone wants happiness,
but the true way to reach perfect happiness
is to bring happiness to others.
- Patrul Rinpoche
Jul. 6 | Birth in the heavens might be supremely hedonistic.
Birth in the hells might be supremely ascetic.
Birth in the Pure Lands is supremely the Middle Way.
- Stonepeace
In India at the time the Buddha’s time, there was a belief that the purpose of life...
Jun. 12 | While True Happiness [by attaining Buddhahood]
is not conditioned by anyone,
it is conditioned by helping everyone
to realise True Happiness [by actualising Bodhicitta].
- Stonepeace
May. 10 | To have unconditioned happiness,
have unconditioned love
for one and all.
- Stonepeace
There is a great conversational gem in the underrated film ‘Adaptation’. In it, Charlie spoke of, to his brother Donald, a time in high school, when he...
Nov. 22 | There is a sphere where there is neither earth nor water nor heat nor air, for it is beyond the field of matter; nor is it the sphere of infinite space, or consciousness, for it is beyond the field of mind.
There is not the condition of nothingness, neither...
Nov. 17 | While True Happiness is unconditioned by anyone,
it is also conditioned by
‘wanting to help everyone to realise True Happiness’. (Bodhicitta)
~ Stonepeace
Nov. 2 | Question: Why are human beings here since all we do is make a mess of our own lives and everything else?
Answer: Most of us like to assume there is a fixed purpose in life, but the truth is, there is none. This is not to say life is unpurposeful or should...
Oct. 12 |
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating...
