31 July, 2015

Great Maya Angelou...


“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; 
it sings because it has a song.” 

Maya Angelou

30 July, 2015

More on Angels...


“Angels always listen and understand. No matter what your native tongue, your angel speaks the same language.”

Suzanne Siegel Zenkel
"Your Secret Angel"

29 July, 2015

Shakespearian Wisdom



“This above all: to thine own self be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man.” 

William Shakespeare

28 July, 2015

Hidden Treasure...


"By charity, goodness, restraint, and self-control men and woman alike can store up a well-hidden treasure -- a treasure which cannot be given to others and which robbers cannot steal. A wise person should do good -- that is the treasure which will not leave one." 

Khuddhaka Patha

24 July, 2015

Do.....

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“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” 

 Eleanor Roosevelt

22 July, 2015

Shhhhhhh!


“Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.”

Robert Newton Peck

Wisdom...


"If you examine your history, you cannot help 
but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: 
"Whatever I am looking at, I am including in 
my vibration."

Esther Hicks (Abraham)

21 July, 2015

Sensible quote...


“To be loved, be lovable.” 

Ovid

16 July, 2015

Four Blessings...


"For one who is in the habit of constantly honoring and respecting the elders, four blessings increase—age, beauty, bliss, and strength."

Dhammapada 109

14 July, 2015

THANK YOU BANGKOK AIRWAYS!

A logo to be proud of...
A great trip!
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We sincerely thank our kind school sponsors, Bangkok Airways, who recently provided tickets to allow our best English students to fly on an English learning project in Bangkok. Thank you for supporting education and for your generosity which is an example to all of us.

Thank you Khun Voratouch for believing in us: in our students and in our community...


Mind...

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"We plant merit with our minds, and we commit crimes with our minds. With our minds, we imprint images. This one mind is like an artist. It can draw anything, and what it draws is realized. If you surrender your impressions, ideas, thoughts, and so on at the moment they arise without imprinting them on your mind, your minds will not be tainted, just as the lotus flower is not tainted by the muddy water whence it grows."

Jae Woong Kim 
Polishing the Diamond

08 July, 2015

Clinging...


“One should not imagine oneself to be one with the eye or independent of it or the owner of it. The same with the ear and all the other senses, including the mind. Nor should one imagine oneself to be identical with the world or contained in it or independent of it or the owner of it. In this way, free from imagining, one no longer clings to the things of the world. When one no longer clings, there is no more agitation, insecurity, and worry. Being no longer worried, one can reach into the depths of oneself and understand that where there has been loss there is now fulfillment.”

Samyutta Nikaya

07 July, 2015

True Dhamma...


"Anything that acts as an antidote to self-grasping is Dharma practice. Whereas, even though we may engage in a great variety of practices that may appear to be spiritual, if they do not act to destroy our self-grasping, they are not Dharma practice."

Gomo Tulku 
"Becoming a Child of the Buddhas"

06 July, 2015

Strength...


“Some people think it's holding on that makes 
one strong; sometimes it's letting go.” 

Sylvia Robinson

05 July, 2015

Clinging...


“There simply is nothing to which we can attach ourselves, no matter how hard we try. In time, things will change and the conditions that produced our current desires will be gone. Why then cling to them now?” 

 Master Hsing Yun
"The Indescribable"

03 July, 2015

Our thoughts...our world


"All that we are is the result of our thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. If you speak or act with a harmful thought, trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart. All that we are is the result of our thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. If you speak or act with a harmonious thought, happiness will follow you as your own shadow, never leaving you."

Dhammpada

02 July, 2015

Focusing on yourself...


“Focus, not on the rudenesses of others, 
not on what they've done or left undone, 
but on what you have & haven't done 
yourself. 

Dhammapada
translation by Thanissaro Bhikkhu


01 July, 2015

On the value of consideration...


“Being considerate of others will take 
your children further in life than any 
college degree.”

Marian Wright Edelman