Mt. Kailas, Himalayas

"At times we wander off into the wilderness. We lost ourselves waiting to be found by others."

"Let the past be the past. Live this very moment for it is reality we are here as tomorrow may not be for us to stay."

"We must realize to appreciate whatever we have now for nothing remain forever without change."

"At times we have so much desires. We lost touch with reality."

"Time passes when we are not looking. We seldom find what we are looking for."

"We come. We go in time. For now we are in between. Why are we here?"

"In reality there is no escape from sufferings. We all suffer in silence most of the time in the pretense of being happy."

"Life here is short. Desires are the causes of all sufferings. Meditate to seek inner peace in time."

"The essence of life here is the realization and reality of its impermanent nature. When one fails to adapt to its ever changing conditions, suffering arises beyond control."

"All Dhammas are beyond expression. Voidness is the characteristic of all Dhammas beyond expression. As they are all void, they are beyond expression."

"Whoever sees the Dhamma sees me; whoever sees me sees the Dhamma."

"You should live with yourself and be an island, depend on yourself, and act not on others; make the Dhamma your island, depend on the Dhamma, and not on anything else."

"One should discipline oneself to purify deeds of body, speech or mind after repeated reflection."

"I shall teach you the induction and the ending of the applications of mindfulness: the body arises and ceases with the introduction and cessation of food; feeling arise and cease together with contact; the mind arises and ceases together with the individuality-concept; mental states arise and cease together with attention."

"The Dhamma is like a raft which should be used to cross the stream and then be discarded. Even good things have to be eventually discarded, how much more bad things?"

"When one dwells with thoughts full of passion and lust, without knowing how to escape therefrom, one cannot truly see and understand either oneself or another; and however long one studies, the real meaning of the doctrine will not become clear."

“Disciples shall live like lotuses. A lotus grows in the mud in a pond. Then it makes its way through the water, and rising above the water it blossoms forth and is untouchable by the water.”

“If one is not moved when touched with various worldly conditions, if one is free from grief and free from lust, that indeed is an auspicious thing.”

“I do not call a person a recluse merely because he dons the yellow robe and shaves his head. A person in whom covetousness is not removed, in whom ill-will is not repelled, in whom anger is not suppressed, by not removing these things which are defilements of a recluse, such a person fails to become a true recluse. One in whom these things are removed is on the path of a true recluse.”

Hello

I am a practicing Buddhist.

Twenty years ago I bought several volumes of the Encyclopaedia Of Buddhism from a temple.

I would like to share with you here the knowledge of Buddhism.

Some of the articles are seldom mention in most Buddhist books.

I hope to have answers to your questions.

Thank you
Ben Lim
(born 02-23-45)