Piyawadana

“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays…

“Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to…

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame. -Dhammapada- ©satipatthana.net

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all. -The Buddha- ©satipatthana.net

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise. ©satipatthana.net

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment.... ©satipatthana.net

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. _The Buddha_

“You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you? You are the lamp To lighten the way. Then hurry, hurry. When your light shines Without impurity or desire…

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our own mind” ― The Buddha

“Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto…