#WalkForPeace photo gallery. “In this world, nothing goes the way we expect it. … It’s always going in opposite directions. Either we accept it or we suffer from it. Our reminder is to be more mindful. Do not react to things happening to ourselves.” www.mississippifreepress.org/photos-buddh...

Gatha for walking: With every step I take, I vow to practice loving-kindness. With every step I take, I bring my mind back to the present moment.

happy bday writer James Thurber, b.1894, Columbus, OH. "Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness." “Beautiful things don't ask for attention.” “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”

When it's hot, keep a cool head. When it's cold, keep a warm heart. —Ajahn Brahm

Every day take a moment to intentionally do some good, no matter how trivial it might seem. You and the whole world can only benefit.

What we take to be a self is tentative, fictitious, constructed by clinging, a temporary identification with some parts of experience. Self arises, solidifying itself, like ice floating in water. . . (cont.)

Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle, or harm. —Majjhima Nikaya

Luminous is consciousness, brightly shining is its nature, but it becomes clouded by the attachments that visit it. —Anguttara Nikaya

Thich Nhat Hanh - A Journey into the Heart of Buddhism. Source: YouTube youtu.be/pTWDFS5TjV0

Neither the pleasures of the senses, nor even divine happiness, is worth even a sixteenth part of the happiness of craving’s end. —Ud. 2.2 Rājasutta: Kings

When we clearly realize that the source of disharmony and misery in the world is ignorance, we can open the door of wisdom and compassion. —Alan Wallace

The middle path does not go from here to there. It goes from there to here. —Unknown teacher, from Jack Kornfield's The Wise Heart

Angry in the ultimate dimension I close my eyes and look deeply. Three hundred years from now Where will you be and where shall I be? —Thich Nhat Hanh, Stepping Into Freedom This gatha/poem can be used to reflect on impermanence before acting when faced with anger.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. —Thich Nhat Hanh

Concentration is like a pure empty bowl. Wisdom and understanding are the food that fills the bowl and nourishes the heart. —Ajahn Chah

Mere suffering exists, no sufferer is found. The deeds are, but no doer of the deeds is there, Nirvana is, but not the one who enters it. The path is, but no traveller on it is seen. - Visuddhi Magga

Hello! I will be using this account to post quotes/ideas from my various dhamma readings. I am just a lay Buddhist practitioner in Texas who wants to spread positivity. Let's cultivate loving kindness and work towards ending suffering for all beings! ❤️🙏