The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self

time. In fact, I think that’s what great mentors do; they excite within you a capacity to look at something in a new way, a way that resonates particularly within you.

Taken all together then, the phrase Nam-myohorenge-kyo could be translated as “I devote myself to the mystic law of cause and effect through sound.”

To understand that life means difficulty liberates us because it helps us to understand problems and suffering as natural parts of life, not as signs of our inadequacies.

The universe and everything in it are in flux, arising and ceasing, appearing and disappearing, in an unending cycle of change conditioned by the law of causation. All things are subject to the law of cause and effect, and consequently nothing can exist independently of other things. This Buddhistic concept of causation is also known as “dependent

The best predictor of general life satisfaction, according to a nationwide study conducted by the University of Michigan, is not satisfaction with family life, friendships or income but satisfaction with self.

It’s not what we do for a living but how we do it and whether we feel useful and find meaning in our work that make the difference.

Buddhism is a beautiful philosophy, but above all, it is about action.

This constant change or fluctuation, ex pressed by the Buddhist concept of “impermanence,” gives rise to the fundamental sufferings of human existence. But occasionally amid the flux of life, perhaps for a fleeting instant, we sense an underlying rhythm, a hum or a pulse, to all things. Such moments of insight and realization often occur after an e

We can overcome the suffering of sickness and in so doing even the experience of sickness enriches our lives and makes them more worthwhile, providing the material for a great drama of fulfillment that unfolds day after day.

In Buddhism, one could never be separate from the wisdom of God, because the ultimate wisdom already exists in the heart of every person.