Namo Buddhaya

           We Dhamma soldier are working to bring positive change in the world.   The Carona Virus has given us more important job. 

            So working to uproot 'social, political, economic suffering and Injustice' is a basic need of the troubled world.   

    I request all of please stand with the Dharma soldiers.

Thank you.

            

20 Kindness quotes

Practicing kindness is one of the fastest and most gratifying ways to inspire greatness in ourselves and others. Many of us are kind by nature, but what if we consciously looked for opportunities to extend kindness as we go about our day? Some opportunities can be to help carry groceries for someone, letting a car go ahead of you in traffic, saying hello to new people, buying a cup of coffee for the person behind you in line, giving someone a compliment or encouraging words. There are so many ways to be kinder, both large and small, and it can fun! You never know—you may even change someone’s life or motivate them to do an act of kindness themselves.

To propel yourself into greatness, start to look for ways to practice kindness, while brightening someone’s day. Here are 20 kindness quotes to inspire your journey of spreading kindness and making a better world:

1. “Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” ~R.J. Palacio

2. “Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.” ~William J.H. Boetcker

3. “When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.” ~The 14th Dalai Lama

4. “What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5. “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.” ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

6. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ~Plato

7. “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” ~Dalai Lama XIV

8. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” ~Desmond Tutu

9. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” ~Albert Schweitzer

10. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” ~Aesop

11. “My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.” ~Maya Angelou

12. “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.” ~Mother Teresa

13. “If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.” ~Lao Tzu

14. “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~Mark Twain

15. “Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.” ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

16. “When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.” ~Harold Kushner

17. “Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” ~Barbara de Angelis

18. “Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

19. “Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.” ~Margaret Cho

20. “Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time.” ~Richard Carlson

Collected By

Ven.Sumedha Bodhi

The 20 thoughts of Gandhi who is the hero of Indian freedom struggle.  Icon of the Non-violence (Ahimsa).  I have given these thoughts to utilize in your life to achieve whatever goals you already planned.

Mahatma Gandhi

1. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

2. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

3. I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.

4. The future depends on what we do in the present. El futuro depende de lo que hagamos en el presente .

5. First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

6. A 'no' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

7.You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

8. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever

9. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

10. You should be the change that you want to see in the world.

11. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

12. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others

13. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

14. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

15.The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way in which its animals are treated.

16. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

17. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

18. The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

19. The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

20. Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy - giving and upliftin

Sources:  Gandhi Philosophy.

WHAT IS KARMA?

 Karma is the law of moral causation. The theory of Karma is a fundamental doctrine in Buddhism. This belief was prevalent in India before the advent of the Buddha. Nevertheless, it was the Buddha who explained and formulated this doctrine in the complete form in which we have it today.

What is the cause of the inequality that exists among mankind?
Why should one person be brought up in the lap of luxury, endowed with fine mental, moral and physical qualities, and another in absolute poverty, steeped in misery?
Why should one person be a mental prodigy, and another an idiot?
Why should one person be born with saintly characteristics and another with criminal tendencies?
Why should some be linguistic, artistic, mathematically inclined, or musical from the very cradle?
Why should others be congenitally blind, deaf, or deformed?|
Why should some be blessed, and others cursed from their births?

Either this inequality of mankind has a cause, or it is purely accidental. No sensible person would think of attributing this unevenness, this inequality, and this diversity to blind chance or pure accident.

In this world nothing happens to a person that he does not for some reason or other deserve. Usually, men of ordinary intellect cannot comprehend the actual reason or reasons. The definite invisible cause or causes of the visible effect is not necessarily confined to the present life, they may be traced to a proximate or remote past birth.

According to Buddhism, this inequality is due not only to heredity, environment, "nature and nurture", but also to Karma. In other words, it is the result of our own past actions and our own present doings. We ourselves are responsible for our own happiness and misery. We create our own Heaven. We create our own Hell. We are the architects of our own fate.

Resource: K Sri Dhammananda

LET US STAND & SUPPORT THE DHAMMA PRACTICE

          The Hindu (Vedic, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism) order of philosophy covers all aspects of life – religious, social, political and economic.  The dynamic interplay of Trivarga and moksha i.e. the doctrine of Trivarga comprising of “Dharma, Artha and Kama are the sum and substance of the Indian Philosophy of life, intended to strike a reasonable balance between the interests of the individuals and that of the society which means the interest of all other individuals who constitutes the society or Nation and includes all humanity.  It declares the Supremacy of Dharma (Law of being) – over Artha (wealth) desire for securing material pleasure and Kama, (every type of desire including the desire for securing wealth and every type of pleasure).  It is the invaluable and everlasting solution for all the problems of all human beings for all time to come, irrespective of their belonging or not belonging to any religion.

THE BUDDHA

          The propounders of dhamma did appreciate that the fulfillment of desire of human beings was essential but were of the opinion that unless the desires were regulated by law, they would bring about undesirable results.  Therefore, all the propounders of Dharma were unanimous that for the existence of an orderly society and peace and happiness of all, the desires (Kama) for material enjoyment, and pleasures (Artha) should always confirm to Dharma (code of right conduct) and be never inconsistent with it.

MAY ALL BEINGS HAPPY

BUDDHIST CONCEPT OF NATURE

Nagarjuna said that for a system where emptiness is possible, it is also possible to have functionality, and since functionality is possible, emptiness is also possible. So when we talk about nature, the ultimate nature is emptiness. What is meant by emptiness, or shunyata? It is not the emptiness of existence but rather the emptiness of true or independent existence, which means that things exist by dependence upon other factors.

  Acharaya Nagarjuna

         So whether it is the environment that is inhabited, or the inhabitants, both of them are composed of four or five basic elements. These elements are earth, wind, fire, water and vacuum, that is space. About space, in the Kalachakra tantra there is a mention of what is known as the atom of space, particles of space. So that forms the central force of the entire phenomenon. When the entire system of the universe first evolved, it evolved from this central force which is the particle of space, and also a system of universe and would dissolve eventually into this particle of the space. So it is on the basis of these five basic elements that there is a very close inter-relatedness or interrelation between the habitat that is the natural environment and inhabitants, the sentient beings living within it.
 

-Da Lai Lama