Sunday, February 04, 2007

Matthew 17:19

dicit illis propter incredulitatem vestram amen quippe dico vobis si habueritis fidem sicut granum sinapis dicetis monti huic transi hinc et transibit et nihil inpossibile erit vobis

Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain: Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove: and nothing shall be impossible to you.

Matthew 17:19, Latin Vulgate

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Atharva Veda III, 20, 5

With your fires, Agni, you make strong our sacrifice and prayer.
Inspire us, God, to share and grant us wealth to give.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Dhammapada 1

Mind precedes all things;
mind is their chief, mind is their maker.
If one speaks or does a deed
with a mind that is pure within,
happiness then follows along
like a never departing shadow.

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Train yourself in doing good
that lasts and brings happiness.
Cultivate generosity, the life of peace,
and a mind of boundless love.

Ittivuttuka 16

Monday, December 11, 2006

The past should not be followed after
and the future not desired;
what is past is dead and gone
and the future is yet to come.

Majjhima Nikaya III, 131

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Life is swept along,
next-to-nothing its span.
For one swept to old age
no shelters exist.
Perceiving this danger in death,
one should drop the world's bait
and look for peace.

Samyutta Nikaya II, 19

Saturday, December 09, 2006

O Daughter of Heaven, to you I direct my hymn like a precious offering. Accept it, O Night, as a paean of praise.

Rig Veda X, 127, 8

Friday, December 08, 2006

Having killed anger you sleep in ease. Having killed anger you do not grieve. The noble ones praise the slaying of anger -- with its honeyed crest & poison root -- for having killed it you do not grieve.

Samyutta Nikaya II, 70

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Hate brings great misfortune, hate churns up and harms the mind; this fearful danger deep within most people do not understand.

Itivuttaka 84

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Good are friends when need arises;
good is contentment with just what one has;
good is merit when life is at an end,
and good is the abandoning of all suffering.

Dhammapada 331

Saturday, November 18, 2006

The friend who is a helpmate,
the friend in happiness and woe,
the friend who gives good counsel,
the friend who sympathises too --
these four as friends the wise behold
and cherish them devotedly
as does a mother her own child.

Digha Nikaya 31

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Time brought forth fate-filled chance. In Time the Sun shines and burns. In Time the eye spies from afar. In Time all existences are.

Atharva Veda XIX, 53, 6

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations."

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Aesop

Monday, October 23, 2006

As a mother would risk her life to protect her child, her only child, even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with regard to all beings.

Sutta Nipata I, 8

Thursday, October 19, 2006

The fever of passion exists not for him who has completed the journey, who is sorrowless and wholly set free, and has broken all ties.

Dhammapada 90

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Through conviction one crosses over the flood.
Through heedfulness, the sea.
Through persistence one overcomes suffering & stress.
Through discernment a person is purified.

Sutta Nipata I, 10

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Ever grows the glory of him who is energetic, mindful and pure in conduct, discerning and self-controlled, righteous and heedful.

Dhammapada 24

Monday, September 18, 2006

The Self, smaller than the small, greater than the great, is hidden in the hearts of creatures. The wise, by the grace of the Creator, behold the Lord, majestic and desireless and become free from grief.

Yajur Veda, Svetasvatara Upanishad, Part I, Chapter III, 20

Saturday, September 16, 2006

May all creatures, all living things, all beings one and all, experience good fortune only. May they not fall into harm.

Anguttara Nikaya II, 72

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

One should first establish oneself in what is proper and only then try to instruct others. Doing this, the wise one will not be criticized.

Dhammapada 158