BUDDHIST WISDOM

[Pravin Kumar]

When someone asks you a question, answer him or her sincerely, and when you are not asked, do not force your teaching upon others.

- Jae Woong Kim, "Polishing the Diamond"

Life continues to create itself and fall away, and suffering returns, and delight arrives, if even for a moment--agony, peace, rapture.

- Sandy Boucher, "Hidden Spring"

What the great Buddha has praised as pure, the state that is called immediate, there exists nothing equal to that state.

- Sutta Nipata 226

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English"

Don't be afraid of doing good. It's another name for happiness, for all that is dear and delightful--this phrase "doing good." Whoever would live well, Long lasting, bringing bliss-- Let him be generous, be calm, And cultivate the doing of good. By practicing these three, These three bliss-bringing things, The wise one lives without regret His world infused with happiness.

- Itivuttaka Sutta

While practicing generosity, we should always remember how very fortunate we are to have this opportunity.

- Gomo Tulku, "Becoming a Child of the Buddhas"