Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.
Gautama BuddhaRead
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Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.
Today I don't have to fit into anyone else's emotional atmosphere.
Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.
Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'
Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.
Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
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