Aspundir: 04/06/13

Religious Thought 192

No worldly delight is comparable to the delight that will fill your heart when you completely abandon all hopes and desires.

- Maharamayana

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Live in joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of the way.

- from the Dhammapada

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Religious Thought 191

Those men who for others' disgrace and their own feel equally ashamed Are regarded by the world as the abode of modesty. The great would rather defend themselves with modesty's barricade Than breach it to acquire the vast world itself.

- Tirukkural 102: 1015-1016

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According to Buddhist psychology, most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for, attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities. The pursuit of the objects of our desire and attachment involves the use of aggression and competitivenessThese mental processes easily translate into actions, breeding belligerence. Such processes have been going on in the human mind since time immemorial, but their execution has become more effective under modern conditions. What can we do to control and regulate these poisons—delusion, greed and aggression? For it is these poisons that are behind almost every trouble in the world.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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जहां महिलाओं को सोते ही मिलती है संतान!

चंडीगढ़। हिमाचल के मंडी जिला की लड़भडोल तहसील के सिमस गांव में एक देवी का मंदिर ऐसा है जहां पर निसंतान महिलाओं के फर्श पर सोने से संतान की प्राप्ति होती है। नवरात्रों में इस मंदिर हिमाचल के पडोसी राज्यों पंजाब, हरियाणा और चंडीगढ़ ऐसी सैकड़ों महिलाएं इस मंदिर की ओर रूख करती हैं जिनकी संतान नहीं होती है। इस मंदिर कैसे निसंतान महिलाएं संतान होने का सुख पाती हैं और कौन है यह चमत्कारी देवी?

Religious Thought 190

But a man without desires is a lion. When the senses see him, It is they who take flight! They run away like elephants, As quietly as they can. As if they cannot escape, They serve him like slaves.

- Ashtavakra Gita 18:46

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As a cowherd with a rod drives cows to the field, so aging and death drive the life of living beings.

- Dhammapada, 135, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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Religious Thought 189

Laugh when troubles come your way. There is nothing better to conquer calamity. A flood of troubles will vanish the moment The mind of a wise man collects itself to face them.

- Tirukkural 63: 621-622

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Whoever, with a rod, harasses an innocent man, unarmed, quickly falls into any of ten things: harsh pains, devastation, a broken body, grave illness, mental derangement, trouble with the government, violent slander, relatives lost, property dissolved, houses burned down. At the break-up of the body this one with no disconcernment, reappears in hell.

- Dhammapada, 137-140, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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