Quotes

1. We are the first victim of our anger.

Someone or something may make us feel angry with, and we start to get angry with them. when we get angry our heart beats faster than normal and something is burning in our chest. we get burn and some burns may make our heart stop beating. we’ve never realized that we are the first victim of our anger because we’ve never aware about that as we usually busy thinking about those people or those things who made us get angry. From now on, let’s focus on ourselves by do not letting anyone or anything influent our mind anymore.

2. to be balance

To be balance from any of criticism and admiration is the key of developing our mindset and daily living. Try to not angry with criticism and try to not happy with admiration, we will be able to keep our balance in mind and grow our daily lives.

3. all actions are Ordered by our mind

Mind is the forerunner of all things. Mind is supreme; they are all mind-made. If one speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows them, even as the cartwheel follows the hoof of the ox that draws the cart.

Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

The consciousness of a person who has already attained realization, though it still possesses those characteristics, that person’s path is never-ending.

consciousness of a person who has already attained realization does not possess those characteristics; that person’s path is complete.

3. Peace and war

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a eternal law.

Other people (aside from the wise) usually do not realize that ‘we shall all perish in the midst of this group.’ However, for those in this world who do realize that ‘we shall all perish in the midst of this group,’ their quarrels are thereby stilled

4. Maintain our mind

Whoever lives looking only for pleasure, with senses unguarded, immoderate in eating, indolent and wasting energy, Mara(Evil) certainly overpowers him, just as the wind throws down a weak tree

Whoever lives perceiving the impurity of things, with senses well-restrained, moderate in eating, full of faith and effort, Mara(Evil) certainly does not overpower him, just as the wind cannot throw down a Rocky Mountain.

Just as rain leaks into a poorly roofed house, so does passion (lust) penetrate an untrained mind.”

“Just as rain does not leak into a well-roofed house, so passion (lust) cannot penetrate a well-trained mind.

5. Speak and Do

If you possess high intelligence but do not utilize that intelligence, or if you possess knowledge but do not share or teach others (you do not benefit the world), it is like you have nothing.

If you possess high intelligence and apply that intelligence properly, there is a saying: Time, Value, and Opportunity. You will gain results that provide benefit and progress, not just for the present, but also for the future, provided that you share your knowledge

Form is not different from emptiness; emptiness is not different from form. Form is itself emptiness; emptiness is itself form. Feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness are also like this.

All phenomena are marked with emptiness; they are neither arising nor ceasing, neither impure nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing. Therefore, in emptiness, there is no form, no feeling, no perception, no mental formation, no consciousness…

6. Be a Wise or a Fool

When the wise person drives away negligence through mindfulness, climbing the tower of wisdom, they look down—free from sorrow—upon the sorrowing crowds. Just as one standing on a mountain peak looks down upon those standing on the ground below.

Foolish and ignorant people indulge in negligence. However, the wise person guards mindfulness as their most precious treasure. Do not indulge in negligence; do not find pleasure in sensual delights. For the person who is mindful and meditative attains great happiness.

7. train our mind

The wise person should guard the mind, which is difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and prone to wandering towards whatever it desires. For a guarded mind brings true happiness.

The wise man straightens his unsteady and wavering mind, which is difficult to guard and hard to restrain, just as a fletcher straightens an arrow. This mind, when pulled away from the attachment of the five sensual pleasures and cast into the practice of Vipassana (insight meditation) to abandon the realm of Evil, quivers like a fish taken from its watery home and thrown onto dry land.

Those who restrain the mind—which wanders far, travels alone, is formless, and dwells in the cave (of the four primary elements/the physical body)—shall be free from the bonds of Evil.

Taming the mind, which is difficult to restrain, swift, and prone to follow its desires toward any object, is beneficial. A well-trained mind brings forth happiness.

Wisdom does not reach fullness in one whose mind is unsteady, who does not understand the True Dhamma, and whose faith is wavering. There is no fear for one whose mind is not soaked by lust, whose mind is not overwhelmed by hatred, and who has gone beyond both merit and demerit (evil)—one who is ever-watchful and awake.