Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 17

No more suffering to that truth... :)

"I have heard many stories about parents who have hurt their children so much, planting many seeds of suffering in them. But I believe that the parents did not mean to plant those seeds. They did not intend to make their children suffer. Maybe they received the same kind of seeds from their parents. There is a continuation in the transmission of seeds, and their father and mother might have gotten those seeds from their grandfather and grandmother. Most of us are victims of a kind of living that is not mindful, and the practice of mindful living, of meditation, can stop these kinds of suffering and end the transmission of such sorrow to our children and grandchildren. We can break the cycle by not allowing these kinds of seeds of suffering to be transmitted to our children, our friends, or anyone else."
(Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhist author, from 'Peace is Every Step' )

Monday, January 7

How many lives must still be taken?...

The problem is not the Koran, nor the Torah or the Bible. The problem is never the faith, but the faithful and how they behave towards each other.
Kofi Annan