Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realise that each thought creates according to its own nature. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.
Fasting in the monastic community is considered an ascetic practice, a “dhutanga” practice. Dhutanga means “to shake up” or “invigoration”. The Buddha, as is well known, emphasized moderation, the Middle Way that avoids extremes, in all things. Fasting is an additional method that one can take up, with supervision, for a time.
What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.
Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
Love is the scent with the lotus born. It is the silent choirs of petals singing winter’s harmony of uniform beauty. Love is the song of the soul, singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets – sun and moonlit.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves!
Begin with yourself. There is no time to waste. It is your duty to do your part to bring God’s kingdom on earth.
Do not take this material world so seriously because it is always changing. Something terrible that you take so seriously today is going to change tomorrow.
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality.
