A Glass of Water

~baranyai

"When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it."

[Josei Toda]

 

Stepping Forward with Gratitude

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Live a Happy Life

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May You Know Beauty

Take a Giant Leap

Keep Positive

Create Happiness

Mr. Toda once said to a young woman, "If you aren't going to create happiness in the place where you are now, where else are you going to find it?' We must develop inner strength. We need to transform ourselves and become people who aren't defeated by life's struggles.

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Gifts

True Freedom

Question to Ask Yourself

Perseverance

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If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

Our Buddhist practice takes place in the midst of our busy daily lives. It is all too easy for us to grow lazy and neglect it. Therefore, there is perhaps no more difficult practice when it comes to continuing. If we challenge ourselves to keep practicing even a little each day, before we realize it we have built a path to happiness in the depths of our lives; we have established a solid embankment that will prevent our ever being swept away toward unhappiness.

(Faith Into Action- Daisaku Ikeda)

A Little Flower

"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower"

~ Hans Christian Anderson

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Dance with the Blossoms

 Live for the roots
Love the green
Dance with the blossoms
  ~Terri Guillemets

You Don't Have to be a Buddhist to be a Buddha

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Harness the Storms

The Bodhisattva Way

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"People who love with the the most all-consuming fervour are those who live life to the fullest, regardless on how long their physical existence lasts. To invest one's heart and soul in caring for others, to burn with passionate love for humanity, is what Buddhists call "the Bodhisattva way". I believe this kind of perfect life constitutes the way to optimum health and longevity."
~Ikeda

Our Present Sufferings

Value Creation

Buddhism teaches us to regard everything in a positive light, as an opportunity for growth, as a raw material for developing absolute happiness. Chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo is wellspring of this optimism and growth- this is called "Value Creation". This wellspring enables practitioners to turn everything in their lives, joys and sufferings alike into causes for absolute happiness. As a result, individuals develop confidence in their power to transform even intense suffering into raw material of happiness. With this power, everything is a benefit, an opportunity.

(Source: The Buddha in your Mirror)

Bluer than Indigo

One who practices still more earnestly whenever he hears the teachings
of the Lotus Sutra is a true seeker of the Way. When T'ien-t'ai
stated, "From the indigo, an even deeper blue," he meant that
something dyed with indigo becomes even bluer than the indigo plant
itself. For us the Lotus Sutra is the indigo plant, and the growing
intensity of our practice is "an even deeper blue."

(Daily Wisdom from the Writings from Nichiren Daishonin)

Diamonds