BUDDHIST WISDOM

[Pravin Kumar]

The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the more loving-friendliness you cultivate to help the world.


Attention is living; inattention is dying. The attentive never stop; the inattentive are dead already.


Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves. The situation is comparable to our serving food to ourselves and to other people from the same bowl. Everyone ends up eating the same thing--we must examine carefully what we are dishing out.


He who entirely cuts off his craving by drying up its fierce and rapid flow, --such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.