Today’s Daily Peace: Forgiveness
Posted on July 27, 2008 - Filed Under Deep Thoughts, Mantras | Leave a Comment
Forgiveness does not mean inviting the person who hurt you to dinner, it means letting go of the hurt that could be directing your life.
Patricia Lite Hickman, author of Common Sense For the Soul
Desire, Suffering, and the Journey
Posted on February 5, 2008 - Filed Under Just Breathe, Deep Thoughts, Mantras | 1 Comment
I often have difficulty reconciling my desire to be happy in my career with the knowledge that Buddhism teaches that desire leads to more suffering. This makes sense to me; that wanting something inherently means you will get it or not get it, with the latter causing suffering and the previous being hollow and materialistic, […]
Read More..>>Today’s Daily Peace: The Five Precepts
Posted on October 18, 2007 - Filed Under Mantras | Leave a Comment
A Theravada Buddhism mantra is to repeat the following Five Precepts in a seated meditative position, with the last line repeated three times in a row.
I undertake to observe the precept to abstain from destroying living beings.
I undertake to observe the precept to abstain from taking things not given.
I undertake to observe the precept to […]
Today’s Daily Peace: Making Changes
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under Mantras | Leave a Comment
Feel like you’re in a rut? Hate your job? Need a vacation?
Put yourself first for once (it’s okay; it’s not selfish) and meditate on this:
I simply cannot accept a future where I am as miserable then as I am today.
Courtesy of Douglas Cootey at The Splintered Mind
