October 02, 2009

Everything is in relation to everything else.

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else. 

  ~The B

October 01, 2009

Beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable...Einstein

There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being. - Albert Einstein ...


All we are is a result of what we have thought.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. 

  ~The B

September 30, 2009

The wise shape their minds.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. 

  ~The Dhammapada


September 29, 2009

Nothing is one's own

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
- B