Identify Who You Are

Knowing how to live is identifying who you are. Life is too short to think negatively. Happiness comes to us when we feel pleased with our lives. So, sorrow falls over our shoulders when we feel displeased with our lives. Life wastes itself while we are striving for what we want and need, and then we leave this world before our burning desires are fulfilled. What is important is what we think and do. More important is how much we practise what we think and talk. Better than an idiot is to be a knowledgeable one. Living for right knowledge is better than living for endless pleasure. Living or fighting for destroying all defilement is the way the wise ever do. This is not only the best way to live but also the path to freedom from suffering. Then, we are to know our identities.

Noteworthy Notes

The starting point of Buddhism is reasoning or understanding or, in other words, sammaditthi.
To the seekers of truth, the Buddha says:
1. '' Do not accept anything on (mere) hearsay--(i.e, thinking that thus have we heard it from a long time).
2. ''Do not accept anything by mere tradition-(i.e. thinking that it has thus has been handed down through many generations).
3. ''Do not accept anything on account of mere rumours--(i.e. by believing what others say without any investigation).
4. ''Do not accept anything just because it accords with your scriptures.
5. ''Do not accept anything by mere supposition.
6. ''Do not accept anything by mere inference.
7. ''Do not accept anything by merely considering the reasons.
8. ''Do not accept anything merely because it agrees with your preconceived notions.
9. '' Do not accept anything merely because it seems acceptable-(i.e. thinking that as the speaker seems to be a good person his word should be accepted).
10. ''Do not accept anything thinking that the ascetic is respected by us (therefore, it is right to accept his word).
11. ''But when you know for yourselves-these things are immoral, these things are blameworthy, these things are censured by the wise, these things, when performed and undertaken, conduce to ruin and sorrow--then indeed do you reject them.
12. '' When you know for yourselves--these things are moral , these things are blameless, these things are praised by the wise, these things, when performed and undertaken, conduce to well-being and happiness--then do you live acting accordingly''.

These are extracted from the book: Buddhism in Nutshell by Rev. Narada

Who Are You?

You are not the one who were yesterday nor will you be tomorrow who you are now. Let's consider it. Are there you and I in this very world? ''Nothing lasts forever,'' taught the Buddha. Only mind and matter are there in this world. When saying ''this'' about something pointing out, there is in essence no ''real this'' only ''that'' left. That is what we call all things not having known what and how things come out and pass away.
At every minute and second, mind and matter change without stopping, then how can there be permanent things, how can we say, if so, ''this'' that changes into ''that''? In relation with one another or more, neither I, my, mine nor myself and so on so forth can exist in this very world when we absolutely take all around us and beyond into consideration. You can extend your way of thinking dealing with this and that, based on the teachings preached by the Lord Buddha.
All that arises is subject to change and cease. There was neither everlasting thing nor is at present nor will be in future in the light of the Ultimate Truth. Not ''You'' nor ''I''. Only Mind and Matter at every time. That is why you are not you as you think. So, who are you?

Problem or What?

Do you know where and how the problem arises without doing anything harm to others? Do you believe there is, as we often say, no real problem in this world? Today, we can see a lot of people facing the problems in daily life without knowing how to solve it.
Thus, they got into the doghouse and, are at a loss. Their lives gradually change into things by following the rules and regulations of different societies or the order of many machines, and hunting for endless pleasurable materials and so on. Even though they keep abreast of the date, they are unfortunately lack in the sense of finding the clue to get rid of all sorrow and distress come out of problems.
The way to overcome such a hardship is in fact to clarify what and when really happens, make an analysis of what's more, try to understand interrelation between person and object and then solve it rightfully based on the logic and reason as well as experience. If we go on like this, no real problem exists in this very world. All problems we are meeting with comes out of misunderstanding what and why it happens.

End In View

One who says as he or she does is one who lives easily and rightfully.
One who does as he or she say is one who lives happily and purposefully.
When we say, ''This one is not a good person at all'', do you think that one has no good character any more? And when we say, ''This one is a good person'', do you really think that one is ever in good character more than words? Why does it happens so? That is what we all have to take care on commenting on this and that around us and beyond.
What we need to keep in mind is we will hear what we don't like when we say whatever we like. And then we might hear what we like when we say thoughtfully and wishfully. Please note these to go on: Be patient! Ever persevere! Never look down on nor overestimate anyone else! Keep balance in your mind! Be flexible righteously in thought, word and deed as well.
This is because no one is perfect at all. If we go on bit by bit, we are certain to become valuable and reliable. Positive thinking is the key to keep ourselves in easy and happy way of living while negative thinking pushing us into the doghouse. Life-span is too short to think and keep such a negative view in our soft mind.
In this very world, happiness comes to us when we like ourselves, and popularity and success come into our life on the day others feel pleased with us. Don't think too much but think systematically and logically as well as reasonably. Still, thinking and reasoning are in every way not a right final conclusion. Only experience is the best teacher to guide us. Our ends in view are our choice in our life.

Like a Lotus

We, worldly people, have both good and bad characters. No one is totally purified or perfect if he or she is a worldly being (Puthuzana). Some are making endless effort to overcome all evil through understanding what is what and what to do and how to do while striving for the value and integrity of life, on the other hand, some short-sighted ones are keeping themselves on the sensual pleasure or searching for ever pleasurable objects assuming that such a living is the key to solve the problem faced in day to day life and so on so forth. It is said that man is a creature of craving, fighting forever not for daily bread only but for all whether essentially need or not. So, are we impure in our thought and word as well as deed? The answer is, ''Yes''. Here, what is necessary to note is that it doesn't mean we all are totally impure and incurable. If I am asked if we can change ourselves impurity to purity to reach a high position here and hereafter, I must say, ''Of course, we can''. How? I do hope you have ever seen a lotus blooming out of water. Then, it is so easy that you can follow to do it just now. Ever remember the lotus just comes out of water mixed with mud, passing through the water with no mud on it and standing on the surface of water, pointing out how easy it is to overcome all evil by both doing good and purifying the mind mindfully. Don't forget, then, we can break through all kinds of things both hard or easy to do on the day we fully understand how the lotus comes out of muddy water if we actually wish to do good more and more as we say in association with one another.

If There Are Two Ways

All people are going to somewhere, hoping to find a better place. Some are regretting the past instead of taking a good lesson and longing for the future instead of preparing for the best at this present, for not having understood what's more. As a matter of fact, few people know where and why they are heading without stopping. Have we been aware of it? May be, we can say ''Yes, We have''. No matter where you are going now but how and why you are heading and putting your great endeavor into it that matters most. To reach a right place at right time is the key point to note. Wherever we go, we are in need of knowing whether we are going to a right place or not. This is because like our footprints left on the way, our thought and action either good or bad ever follow after us. Therefore, to find a right path plays a pivotal role. To see the truth and to be free from suffering, we have to depend upon the Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, abiding by and practising all beneficial not for ourselves only but for all also. If there are two ways to go on, which way and why do you think we should go on? How, and how long? Are you assured?

Beauty Is View

Don't you think she is a girl of great beauty? No? Why? Is that just because of a skeleton girl? If not so, how will you think? ''How beautiful you are", will you exclaim? How about your sweetheart, so cute? Why do you say or think so; do you think you have already known the beauty of a girl or more? As asked the beauty of a girl or a being, what will you say clearly and noticeably? How difficult it is to give an exact explanation for that so called beauty while many a poet defining a great deal of definition.
At the time we have a sense of feeling it, we will understand everything or every body has its or his or her beauty. Where you see something or somebody may be a spot for you but not for all to touch the beauty of the world. So noteworthy for all of us is it that nothing lasts forever in the world. Everything changes between time and space. Beauty and ugliness are ever twins and will go on like that as long as we can't understand out of right view and right thought, only mind and matter or five aggregates are there.
No matter what we define it but what matter most is to remember this: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That is the reason why we should also take into account of this-- Beauty is only skin-deep--in association with one another in day to day life.

How Will We Go On?

Let's think of thinking thoughtfully. '' Speaking without thinking is like shooting without aiming,'' goes a saying. If so, could we think something like this: Loving without thinking is probably like jumping down into the sea without knowing how to swim ? And loving with ever deep thought ahead or with a burning desire to get something from the beloved is like a bargaining or like a little bird fearing of flying up high, without knowing how free it may feel on the air.
Who will you be of them if I say so, and how will you define ''The Love'' ? Do you agree with these: Living without love is living without life. And then, life without love is like a stream with no water. What everybody needs is love where there and everywhere. Are you a lover, or beloved?
So, how will we go on?

You Know Why

When you say you know, you are saying you don't know it exactly, in the same way, when you are saying you don't know something strange, you only admit you know, I know that.
When you say, ''I love you so much'', you are but saying, '' you yourself love more than else''.
You know yourself: This is just because you are quite smart and in beauty as well. Will you be with me if I say you love yourself more than someone else in this very world? It will be a perfect life when you are at my side, telling the truth.

Trying To Develop Or Going Over Our Mind

What will you do when you are given a great opportunity of which most people are dying to take hold at any time?
You, on the contrast, are not very keen on it at that time nor will be in want of it in near future.
Will you offer it to the needy sincerely or seize it permanently for fear of losing it or more?
Have you until now ever thought of sacrificing something you love so much or of leaving these so called near and dear ones around you and beyond some day? Are you a giver or taker whatever comes into your hands? Or are you a believer in Give and Take Idea in association with one another? So, who will you be between them? No or Yes? ''Giving is better than taking'', a saying goes. Is it absolutely an acceptable way of thinking in cutthroat social world? Still thinking? No problem. Of course, we should take care of this: look before you leap. Thinking what is necessary out of right understanding is stepping on the right way to achieve your goal. If in essence giving is taking, as a reasonable one, why don't we offer and share what we have and know with our fellows, either low or high , rich or poor, white or black so as to earn integrity and unity. Through giving to the stingy things good and beneficial, we should seize a great advantage of letting our sticking stinginess off and of earning merit to pave the way to good abode here and hereafter.
Every time you make offering something you own, you have already overcome many a unwholesome . Keep it in mind. Develop your good frame mind not for yourself only but for all also.

Where To?

What we are doing is where we are going.
How we are heading is why we are reaching either low or high position.
Which we are feeling preferable is what we are making a decision of what to do and how to do.
When we make effort to improve our physical and mental ability in daily life is how often do we take care of our mind and body or to what extent we have been aware of it.
Going without knowing where and why one has been is like a blind man walking in the dark seeing nothing nor will he see anything even under the burning sun.This is not due to the fault of the sun nor that of the earth but due the lack of eyesight.
Man with no knowledge and wisdom in respective fields, if they are the main sparks of man's life, is but one who deserves no dignity and integrity,too.
Living without finding anything indispensable here and hereafter is like eating without knowing any taste. Don't forget to prepare for all you need now and then.
And the last one we are to take into consideration is the Lamp of Knowledge. Now, is all fulfilled ? The answer is no. The question is why it is so. This is because we have to choke it back with Morality and steer it with Wisdom.
If so, where do we need to go ahead, and how and why?

The Taste of Freedom

Have you ever felt such a feeling?
Have you thought of it or something like that?
If not, do it right now. You will ask me why.
The reason is that you are ever in need of something strange you can't confirm.
Man is born with need and want thus passing away before fulfilling such endless burning desire.
Who knows what's more is who is worthy of living or so.
While living, everybody yearns for freedom but he or she, as asked to give exact definition to it, feels confused for not having known what it means in deed. How about me? Uh, I am still thinking of it, in order to give specific one. Strange? Uh, No. Why? Coz I am like you, worldly being. Why don't we try to take part in it if life is a game.
One day when you are ready to do so, remember this: view differs as if people do in the light of time and space.
Leave all either worry or worthy for a while.
Let's make a move like that!

So Near Yet So Far

You are too far from becoming a great successful one or more,
in case of lacking in pursuing noteworthy things and being out of practice,
even though among thousands of the learned and readable books or more.
Needless to say that the one who doesn't practise what he preaches is the one who is so near to it and yet so far from the high standard of living we, people, should pay due attention to.
If so,
Why don't we be the ideal ones
Abstaining from all evil,
Performing all good,
And purifying the mind.

We Are on The Way To Somewhere

If we were travelers, finding something higher,
We are in need of making clarify what to do and how to do.
Had we been a flying bird knowing nothing ahead,
It would have been unsure and uneasy-going life-style for us.
This is because we are heading nowhere purposefully and persistently while living and doing in day to day life.
From now onwards, let's move on with Aim and Object of life, by both knowing what we are fighting for and seeking for in deed.
Don't forget this: Your great achievement will creep up on you on the day you know clearly what you need and want.

Streaming Smile

Once you wake up and get up,
Let your eyes see with a right view all either good or bad around you and beyond;
Let your thoughts and words freshen in your mind;
Let sweet smile bloom on the lips;
Let your near and dear ones feel happy and warm surrounded with your no bias attitude;
Let your way of thinking and doing sink in the fruitful facts;
Let your mind and body yield valuable and reliable to the have and the haven't;
Ever remember you are on the way to shore, demanding all zeal;
Once you abide by all above, all you need and want will fall at your hand.

Who Are You of them?

Try to be a good person for the benefit of all around and beyond you.
Your life is nothing but your decision and action. Life is too short to feel sorrow and worry.
Be satisfied with what you have.

Fresh Frame of Mind

Be fresh in mind and body.
Be straightforward not in thought only but in action also.
Nothing can stand comparison with pure mind and body.
Never become a prey of impure or untrained mind and action.
Ever seek all good and beneficial not for yourself only but for all walks of life.

What Is What

Longing for all good,
Keeping on striving for what we need and want,
And finding the way to a higher position,
We have been going on with a strong mind and body,
Without knowing anything exact ahead of us.
Should you live happily,
Make an effort to learn of what is what in this very moment.
On the way to break through peril of life,
We might come across all ups and downs.
The key to overcome a dog's life is to put this into action:
Never surrender,
Keep on doing all you can,
No mistake only lesson.
Never forget telling the truth, doing what is righteous and living by right-livelihood
No matter where you are and who you become.
At the moment you know what is what in your life,
You become dear and valuable to all.
Don't forget who you are and where you are heading and why.

What Life Means

Hi,
Buddy,
What life means to you?
What do you think of it?
Do you actually have the answer to it?

What I know of it is I know nothing but something strange.
It has many a meaning in the light of different standpoint.
Here is what it means to man:
Life is like a rock in the sea, facing all the taste of swirl
or like a stream, ever streaming.
That is what I see it sometimes.

Dreaming First

Dear All,
Let's have a thought of this:
Where am I going?
How am I gonna do this into reality?
What we think simply is just an artificial one, so what?
Who shall I meet with tomorrow and the thousand days after?
What we've been doing about needs not the need!
Finally, we are just what we think of!