Not officially become a monk but your heart, becomes detached from whatever is not permanent in this world. Detached from whatever is not conducive to your spiritual elevation. Then, you will also gradually or quickly become Arhat or even higher, Buddha. Apart of being compassionate and merciful, we all have to be responsible for our group, for the reputation of us so that we can go out and spread

This love is different from that love. This love is different from unconditional devotion. Sometimes when we love someone, it’s because that person benefits us. That’s too easy. People love one another because it’s mutually beneficial. But when circumstances change, will this love still exist? That is a different issue. Animals can die for us. Don’t say that they don’t understand. When circumstances arise, you’ll know that they understand, and they have sympathy and deep love.

Please, remember. Be a farmer. Have fun. Instead of spending your time thinking nonsense sometimes, or feeling sad about something, just go and plant a pot of flowers, fruits, vegetables. Spend your energy on something conductive, then you’ll feel happy. We are made from earth and water anyway. So if you are in contact with earth and water, that also makes you feel like you are in your element. Yo

When Genesis Butler was just three years old, she realized that the food she had been eating came from the suffering of gentle lives beings, then she didn’t want to eat meat anymore, in support of Genesis the family instantly stopped meat eating. Genesis has won numerous awards for her activism and was recently presented with the Shining World Leadership for Compassion from Supreme Master Ching Hai.

All these stories are for you to practice, to remember, to encourage you to meditate. You must remember all that, and you must continue reading, listening, so that at home, you keep yourself in the same path, in the straight area. Keep your mind clean and determined. Don’t forget the example of the ancient practitioners. Don’t forget your vow.

Bodhidharma was born in the 4th century in the southern India. He was the third son of a Brahman king; he forsook his princehood early on to become a monk. Bodhidharma attained enlightenment at a very young age and became the 28th Master in the Buddhist lineage. He was sent to China by his Master around 524 AD to transmit the Mahayana teaching and help people reach enlightenment within one life, so he was also known as the first Patriarch of Chan Buddhism in China.

When Buddha was alive, he just went around to let people make offerings to him so that the people, whoever sincerely made offering to him would have immeasurable merit, and attain enlightenment in the future life, or in this life. It’s not how much they offered, but their sincerity and respect for the Buddha.

Islam it means peace. Means the religion of peace. But some people do not follow the example of the Prophet and do not follow his teaching. Master shared some quotes about peace in the Quran, which is exactly the proof that Islam is the religion of peace. Most Muslim people are very well-mannered, very nice. It’s just some group of people, they’re using Muslim to do something bad, that is absolute

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Lahiri Mahasaya is one of the main persons responsible for the renaissance of Yoga in modern India. He is considered a Yogavatar or “Incarnation of Yoga”. He became known in the West through Paramahansa Yogananda.

Oh, let me remind you by the way. When you see the villagers, be courteous to them, OK? (OK.) Be courteous, understand? Be grateful and friendly to them. When we come to the ashram, they don’t complain about anything. They welcome us. So it’s important, OK? Of course, when they welcome virtuous people, they benefit too. Of course it brings blessings to them, but we have to be grateful to them, too

This world is just a transient hotel. But in this hotel which we call “Life,” we have to work, pay every day, and even if we pay we still have to suffer. We pay every day with our precious time, our precious energy, our precious knowledge, our precious short existence here on this planet, which we should use to recognize our great power in order to tackle everything with ease and without effort. The system on this planet makes us so busy: work, work ,work, work from morning till night, work overtime, still don’t have enough happiness.

You have to think before you do anything bad, or anything you doubt, “that’s not good.” You have to think, “Would Buddha do this?” “Would Jesus act like that?” “Would Prophet Muhammad agree to my action?” Then you will know what to do. Otherwise, if you don’t have guidance, you just do whatever you think in your mind, then it’s mostly just negative, because you don’t meditate enough to overcome th

Please, remember. Be a farmer. Have fun. Instead of spending your time thinking nonsense sometimes, or feeling sad about something, just go and plant a pot of flowers, fruits, vegetables. Spend your energy on something conductive, then you’ll feel happy. We are made from earth and water anyway. So if you are in contact with earth and water, that also makes you feel like you are in your element. Yo

Apart of being compassionate and merciful, we all have to be responsible for our group, for the reputation of us so that we can go out and spread the better teaching. If you do the same like them, how can you tell them to become better?

You have to focus on the positive side. Look at the sunny side. That’s how I go on living. Otherwise, there were times that if I had reacted to the things normally and didn’t think positively, I wouldn’t have been able to survive. There are pressures coming from all sides. Even when I am sick, I’ m very grateful to God for not having a serious illness. If I am seriously ill, I’m still grateful bec

When Buddha was alive he had go around begging for food. He did this not only in order to give others merit, but also to sow affinity with the Buddha, so sooner or later another Buddha would come. And then they probably follow that Buddha, and become enlightened, become Arhat, become liberated. That’s the main point at the end. Because the affinity already sowed the seed, and it will grow, and in

The special village was founded in the 1950s, by a group of nature lovers. The cornerstone principles on which Amirim is founded include vegetarianism and an organic lifestyle, it is required that one be vegetarian in order to become a permanent resident of the village.