Buddhism

"Know your own mind just as it is" ~ Ryokan

"sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy" -- thich nhat hanh

At the heart of Nhat Hanh’s teachings is the idea that “understanding is love’s other name” — that to love another means to fully understand his or her suffering. (“Suffering” sounds rather dramatic, but in Buddhism it refers to any source of profound dissatisfaction — be it physical or psychoemotional or spiritual.)

When we feed and support our own

A Buddhist saying on the ineffectiveness of anger: "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else — you are the one who gets burned."

True story from Gus:

Great Tibetan practitioners, when they die, they stay in meditation for days or even weeks after their breath stops. (This is a common thing, not, like, a legend.) They stay sitting erect and their body emits a pleasant smell. Then the moment their meditation is done, the most subtle mind leaves the body, and immediately the