Piyawadana

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” Gautam Buddha

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. Gautama Buddha

There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.

The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. Atisha

Good people keep on walking whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad. If one desires neither children nor wealth nor power nor success by unfair means, know such a one to be good, wise and…

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current—how can he help others across?

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

Even three times a day to offer Three hundred cooking pots of food Does not match a portion of the merit Acquired in one instant of love.

It is not possible to control all external events; But, if I simply control my mind what need is there to control other things?

See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child.