Extracts from Tao Te Ching

Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever. Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart [...]

Hatred

စင္စစ္ ရန္ဟူသည္ မိမိ၏ သႏၲန္ တြင္းရွိ ကိေလသာ မွသာ လာသည္ ျဖစ္၍ ဗဟိဒၶိမွ လာသည္ဟူ၍ ဓမၼတာမရွိ။ ရန္တုံ႔ ျပန္မည္ ဟူ၍ ေတးမွတ္ ရန္ျငိဳး ဖြဲ႔ရျခင္းကား ကိေလသာ က အေရာင္ ဆုိးေပး ထားေသာ အကုသုိလ္ ေစတသိက္မ်ား၏ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္ ျဖစ္သည္။ “ေပ ျဖစ္ေသာအခါ က ခံထားရသည္ တူ ျဖစ္ေသာအခါ ႏွံလုိက္မည္” ဟူေသာ စိတ္ထားကား အကုသိုလ္ နုိင္းခ်င္းႏွင့္ နိမ့္က်ေပ်ာ့ညံ့ ေသာ စိတ္ေနစိတ္ထားတည္း။ “ေပ ျဖစ္၍ခံ တူျဖစ္၍ ႏွံ” ရရုိးမွန္ လ်င္ ေပျဖစ္လုိက္ တူျဖစ္လုိက္ ဘ၀မ်ား ႏွင့္သာ အခ်ိန္ ကုန္မည္မွာ ဧကန္တည္း။ နိမ့္က်ေသာ [...]

Verses from the Dhammapada (verses 197-208)

On Happiness Ah, happily do we live without hate amongst the hateful; amidst hateful men we dwell unhating. Ah, happily do we live in good health amongst the ailing; amidst ailing men we dwell in good health (free from the disease of passions). Ah, happily do we live without yearning (for sensual pleasures) amongst those [...]

Kalama Sutta

The Instruction to the Kalamas The Kalamas of Kesaputta go to see the Buddha 1. I heard thus. Once the Blessed One, while wandering in the Kosala country with a large community of bhikkhus, entered a town of the Kalama people called Kesaputta. The Kalamas who were inhabitants of Kesaputta: “Reverend Gotama, the monk, the [...]

Sermon on the Mount

(All the verses are taken from the KJV Bible) Introduction (Matthew 5:1-2) And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying: The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12) Blessed [are] the poor in spirit: for theirs is the [...]