Piyawadana

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love someone else. If you cannot accept yourself, if you cannot treat yourself with kindness, you cannot do this for another person.

Don't do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work.

"Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves. -The Buddha-

If people respect and talk nicely to us, respect and talk nicely to them. If they disrespect and talk badly to us, still respect and talk nicely to them. We should not allow the actions of others to decrease our goodness. Doing good to…

“Those who do not know satisfaction, even when living in a heavenly palace, are still not satisfied. Those who do not know satisfaction, even if rich, are poor. People who know satisfaction, even if poor, are rich.”…

“Pleasurable is dispassion in the world, The getting beyond sensuality. But the putting away of the conceit 'I am' this is the highest pleasure." - The Buddha -

“‎Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.” ―The Buddha-

“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