Buddha
“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection”
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. "
Venerable Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
(Mark Twain - American Writer, 1835-1910)
"In order for us to progress smoothly and swiftly on our spiritual path, we need the help of two things - merit and wisdom - they are like the two wings of a bird, lacking one will cripple our progress.
We need to accumulate merit and wisdom with joyful effort and enthusiasm.
Merit without wisdom or wisdom without merit will not help."
(His Holiness Jigme Pema Wangchen, the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa)
"We can often say that our own sufferings and all the catastrophes, unwanted situations, disasters, wars, failures and sicknesses that are happening in our world these days are a combination of different results of a lack of merit and wisdom.
Therefore the practice of intensive and skillful purification is very urgently needed.
Purification in the sense of cleaning our defilement and obscurations accumulated since beginningless time until today, which have come in the form of the ripening negative karmic results.
Of course, besides spiritual practice, we all must be actively stopping all the negative actions, confessing about our negative activities by body, speech and mind and vowing never to do them again.
Practically also we should be going out there to help all the beings, whenever we can when the circumstances arise. This goes without saying."
(His Holiness Jigme Pema Wangchen, the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa)
“Time never changes.
Even if the world keeps changing its external presentation, it is still samsara.
Beings are still trapped in the wheel of existence, dancing with greed, hatred and delusion.
The same mind travels from one body to the next.
Sometimes we are animals, sometimes we are humans, and sometimes we are gods.
Our karma leads us on our journey, sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet.
Life is just a dream.
A hero is one who awakens from this dream."
These words are the preface of “A Journey of Time”,
the book of His Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa.
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