Fun Facts: 2 of the Venerable monks choose not to wear shoes. There’s also 2 others who have slept outside and upright for the last 12 years. #WalkForPeace

In the face of adversity, remember these other times, nothing lasts forever.

🙏🏽💙🙏🏽 #walkforpeace #Peace #walk youtu.be/vmqIsZ0Zx7s?...

May we all have good health, happiness & peace 🙏🏽💙🙏🏽 Be happy & peaceful Be healthy Walk peacefully #Walk4Peace #TruthWarriors

Walk for Peace overview journey map: walkforpeace.short.gy/overview-map #WalkForPeace #W4P #Walk4Peace #Dhammacetiya #TykheoTueNhan

“A person of integrity is grateful & thankful. This gratitude, this thankfulness, is advocated by civil people. It is entirely on the level of people of integrity."

Sometimes in the face of negativity, the best thing to do is not engage, leave it be, let them play their games. For us, best to put energy into more wholesome endeavors. #peace

Old age can leave us feeling irrelevant, as if the things we thought were important are just not important anymore, as if time has moved past us, much to our surprise and consternation. One more element of the dukkha nature of existence. All things change. All is impermanent. #dharma #dhamma

“Just as a fine, well-bred bull yoked to a load, enduring his load, crushed by the heavy burden, doesn't throw down his yoke; so, too, those who are filled with discernment — as the ocean, with water — don't look down on others. This is nobility among beings.”

It’s not about feeling good, though that may be a byproduct. It’s about doing good and purifying the mind. #Buddhism

Ajahn Nisabho, Bhante Sumitta, and Ajahn Kovilo at the Black Sun in Volunteer Park, Seattle #theravada #buddhism #monk #sangha

Today make a different choice, be unpredictable. #happiness #peace

“Yes, you can call it a religion, and that might be accurate, but it’s more useful to think of Theravada Buddhism as a skill.”

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.

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Roadside interview with monks on walk for peace. fb.watch/DypvkHFtcX/

Seriously, anything that is sticking, like resentment, anger, sadness, fear, please just see what it feels like to stare it in the face and let it know you just don’t want to participate anymore. These states of mind are fleeting and impermanent. Sometimes we don’t even know why they happened.

“We have to learn how to listen instead of react.” m.facebook.com/watch/?v=116...

We work with what presents in this mind-body framework, no speculation or fantasy, just this manifest reality, just as it is, yathābhūta. Anything else is an unhelpful distraction.

“We kindly ask everyone to continue keeping the monks in your thoughts and prayers as healing begins and the journey toward peace continues.” apnews.com/article/budd...

To be left with nothing is a most incredible proposition, far more implausible than being in possession of a wealth of this or that. Even monks have their robe and alms bowl. Possessing much, or less, can any claim to have nothing? In the midst of abundant possessions, is nothing to be found?

May our minds be inclined to protection in wholesome endeavors. #Dharma #Dhamma

My hut is roofed, comfortable, free of drafts; my mind, well-centered, released. I remain ardent. So, rain-deva. Go ahead & rain. Thag 1:1 Subhūti www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/Th...

What need for a well if there were waters always? Having cut craving by the root, one would go about searching for what? "Udapāna Sutta: The Well" (Ud 7.9), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 3 September 2012, www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/...

“Eradicate the latent tendency of craving using pleasant sensations (by equanimous observation of the pleasant sensations understanding their changing nature), eradicate latent tendency of aversion using unpleasant sensations and eradicate the latent tendency of ignorance using neutral sensations.”

People are essentially unreasonable, needing just the slightest little provocation as an excuse to overreact dramatically. Knowing this, strive not to lose the balance of your mind just because others may be so miserable. Their gift rejected remains with them.

“Dharma is nothing but a pure science, a super-science of mind and matter: the interaction of mind and matter, the cross-currents and the under-currents happening deep inside every moment.” www.vridhamma.org/discourses/D...

Respect 👊🏾 “19 Buddhist monks and their loyal dog Aloka on a 2.3K mile ‘Walk for Peace’ across America. Watch as a simple act of walking becomes a living invitation: may every heart find rest, may peace walk with us.” See comments for info on how to support…

He who bears no grudges in his heart, transcending all this "thus" and "otherwise," — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin. "Uraga Sutta: The Serpent" (Sn 1.1). Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 29 Aug 2012, www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/...

“The Dhamma provides protection, not by any mystical blessing or downpour of saving grace, but by indicating the sure and certain guidelines that enable us to protect ourselves.” www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/...

Shussan Shaka (Śākyamuni Descending from the Mountain), wooden sculpture, 14th century, collection of Nara National Museum, Japan #Buddhism #Art

Taking responsibility is an effective step toward purifying the heart & aligning with reality; anything less is to succumb to the intoxication of ignorance & delusion.

"Our Walk for Peace is to raise awareness of peace, love, kindness, and compassion to everybody, both that everyone will be in unity and live with harmony, and hope that our country will heal.” www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

“Equanimity is not a state of apathy, of not caring. Equanimity is engaged, aware, open, ready. One might assume that equanimity is neither friendly nor unfriendly, but that is not the case. Equanimity is friendly-minded, at its core.” morningstardhamma.blogspot.com/2012/01/are-...

All of our possessions are ultimately worthless; sharing with others we lose nothing but gain a true treasure, practicing #generosity.

"… Seeing new-come devas, fair and glorious Who've lived the holy life, now well reborn. Outshining all the rest in fame and splendor, The mighty Sage's pupils singled out. Seeing this the Thirty-three rejoice, their leader too, Praising the Tathagata, and Dhamma's truths." (DN 18.13)

“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.” "Pupphavagga: Blossoms" (Dhp IV), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 Nov 2013, www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/...

There never has been, is not now, & never will be one who is not flawed. Never imagine that today’s mistake is the end of the world, that’s just ego talking. Tomorrow is another day for us all, definitely including you.

Per the Lojong slogan, abandon any hope of fruition.

Discernment is like shining a light on something; judgment is more like trying to paint it your favorite color. Less judgment, more discernment.

“Buddhism teaches respect for life and peace. In today’s society, people are angry, burned out, and killing each other. That’s why they hosted this walk for peace’” www.star-telegram.com/news/local/f...

At any moment it can all go wrong, so best to find a happiness not dependent on all these many things.

58. Upon a heap of rubbish in the road-side ditch blooms a lotus, fragrant and pleasing. 59. Even so, on the rubbish heap of blinded mortals the disciple of the Supremely Enlightened One shines resplendent in wisdom.

Mental acuity is brittle as an icicle and just as impermanent; Old age and frailty await all who are blessed so long to live. #impermanence #notself

“Like a beautiful flower full of color but without fragrance, even so, fruitless are the fair words of one who does not practice them.” www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/...

“The Buddha taught that true peace arises when the mind is free from greed, anger and delusion. But this truth belongs to all humanity.”

"The study of the Dhamma is like reading a cookbook. The practice of the Dhamma is like fixing food. The attainment of the Dhamma is like knowing the taste of the food.'" -The Teachings of Phra Ajaan Lee, pg. 13, 16 #dhamma #dharma #buddhism #bhikkhu #bhikkhuni #generosity #dana