- Love everyone more
- Serve people in all you do
- Keep your mind on God – the highest good
- Offer homage to honourable beings
- Do good deeds: offer alms, feed the hungry and animals, help others
- Share in good will towards others, either in thought, message or person
- Work to support your Mother and Father
- Work to support those who need it – donate a portion of your earning
- Exert yourself each day
- It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it – do everything with a full heart of love
- Perform your day with right awareness
Category: wisdom
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Improve Your Daily Karmic Footprint
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Satisfy Your Heart
You may try to satisfy your body with extravagant or overindulgent eating or sensualities, but it won’t fill you up.
Better each day to seek to satisfy your heart, with helping and performing good actions for the welfare of others and sharing in good will towards them.
This will make your days worth while. Satisfy your heart and you will be satisfied.
That is where God lives in each being.
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The Highest Blessings – Mangala Sutta
Thus I have heard that the Blessed One
Was staying at Savatthi,
Residing at the Jeta’s Grove
In Anathapika’s Park.Then in the dark of the night, a radiant deva
Illuminated all Jeta’s Grove.
She bowed down low before the Blessed One
Then standing to one side she said:‘Devas are concerned with happiness
And ever long for peace.
The same is true for humankind.
What then are the highest blessings?’‘Avoiding those of foolish ways,
Associating with the wise,
And honouring those worthy of honour.
These are the highest blessings.’‘Living in places of suitable kinds,
With the fruits of past good deeds
And guided by the rightful way.
These are the highest blessings.’‘Accomplished in learning and craftsman’s skills,
With discipline highly trained,
And speech that is true and pleasant to hear.
These are the highest blessings.’Providing for mother and fathers support
And cherishing family,
And ways of work that harm no being,
These are the highest blessings.’‘Generosity and a righteous life,
Offering help to relatives and kin,
And acting in ways that leave no blame.
These are the highest blessings.’‘Steadfast in restraint, and shunning evil ways,
Avoiding intoxicants that dull the mind,
And heedfulness in all things that arise.
These are the highest blessings.’‘Respectfulness and being of humble ways,
Contentment and gratitude,
And hearing the Dhamma frequently taught.
These are the highest blessings.’Patients and willingness to accept one’s faults,
Seeing venerated seekers of truth,
And sharing often the words of the Dhamma.
These are the highest blessings.’‘Ardent, committed to the Holy Life,
Seeing for oneself the Noble Truths
And the realisation of Nibbana.
These are the highest blessings.’‘Although in contact with the world,
Unshaken the mind remains
Beyond all sorrow, spotless, secure.
These are the highest blessings.’‘Those who live by following this path
Know victory wherever they go,
And every place for them is safe.
These are the highest blessings.’Taken from the Book of Chanting at Cittaveka Buddhist Monastery.
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Live by These Words
Remember God
Serve people
Love everyone
Remember God
Pray everyday; do japa mala
This physical world is an illusory and what we have here is impermanent. Don’t loose the spiritual for the temporal
Shiv Puja every MondayLook after your body
Eat vegetarian – rice, vegetables, milk, butter, ghee, honey, lots of water, natural sweets
Physical exercises to physically exhaust you – weights, pushups, running, swimming, yoga, ride bike
Your body is like a battery; don’t zap all the juice out of your body use it in other ways
Don’t overeat/eat the wrong things
Don’t sleep too much, no napping in the day timeBe engaged
Read books about saints – Buddha, Dhamma, Indian saints
Do work that is mentally and physically engaging
Watch movies etc. for entertainment
Do things you love – wild foods, camping, outdoors stuff, help people, study and play music, cooking,
Build a lifestyle business
Build YogiTonics website to help others about stuff you learnt
Have a project to work on e.g. bike paint, instrument repair, grow op, online project
Drawing class, guitar, flutes, photography, hiking, foraging, gardening, wood work, web development/digital marketing, non-duality, travel, swimming, diving, sailing, watersports, nature, business, film making, massage/reflexology, herbs, cooking.Live morally and ethically
Revere your Mother
Revere your Father
Worship God
Read Scripture
Don’t tell lies
Keep a morning and evening routine
Sex needs love and affection
Don’t let lust over power you
Be humble, sub-due the ego with awareness and reflection
Make merit – donate a portion of regular income to charitable causes, feed renunciates, help the needy, go out of you way to think of others and help them
Live an honest life – work hard for your money, pay taxes, don’t cheat people, over deliver for them
Don’t judge people – see their benefits and positive traits
Don’t use stones for material gains
Don’t think me first; always stop to give your hand to another person whilest on your path