Be careful of going back. MU

1. Two monks were once travelling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was falling. Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection.

   "Come on, girl," said the first monk. Lifting her in his arms, he carried her over the mud.

   The second monk did not speak again until that night when they reached a lodging temple. Then he no longer could restrain himself. "We monks don't go near females," he said. "It is dangerous. Why did you do that?"

   "I left the girl there,: the first monk said. "Are you still carrying her?"

Silence... the key... to unlock... every door.

Silence, that gives us the space to not react? Like a breath of time before we regret our response or action...

Can we let it be... just listen...

Listen, and dont give fuel to the embers? indifference?

TY Woodsman...

Metta to All... :-)

Good advices from Woodsman  of you

Just listening and  remain silent

Unlocking every door with this key

Self-reliance freed from bondage

The ember of fire is impermanence

Silence is your true companion

It surely will never betray you

Tranquility is never gained outside

With Metta to all

Well said beautifully

Working  On One's Deep Silence Makes One Noble

Silence is Golden

Have A Nice Day

With Metta

Thank you all so much...

Silence is "truely" Golden...

Metta to All...   :-)

(Benefactor=Woodsman)

   Just as the root of the Buddha's psychological teaching is that we will
never find happiness in trying to control what cannot be controlled, the
root of his moral teaching is empathy - understanding that all beings want to
be happy and that suffering hurts others in the same way that it hurts us.
We use our mindfulness practice to notice our feelings and to understand
them. Through that we can see very clearly that if we are immersed in
tremendous anger, it is great suffering. It is a state of burning, of
contradiction and isolation, of separation and fear. We see this relative
nature of anger as well as its more ultimate, impermanent, insubstantial,
transparent nature. On the relative level, it is painful; it hurts. We can
learn not to consider anger as bad or evil. We don't have to reject the
anger or reflect or condemn ourselves for it, but rather we can feel
compassion for the pain of it. And then we understand that when others are
engulfed by anger they are suffering, just the way we suffer when we're lost
in that state.

Writen by Sharron Salzberg...

Metta to All...  :-)

it's very interesting...when you point and click onto the green items...no matter what the definition...they turn pink