The Importance of Tempering Mind
Impressed by performances of African children from Amitofo Care Centre in Lesotho, Khenpo Sodargye, who like a kind uncle to them, encourages them to strengthen their bodies and minds, improve their language skills and knowledge, and respect themselves and others.
What Is Love?
Excerpt 1: What Is Love?
What is love? Some of you may know it well while others may not. Whatever the case is, we are born into this world needing love. This kind of love, sometimes can also be interpreted as a compassionate heart.
Excerpt 2: The Importance of Inner Strength
The martial art performance of these students which we just watched, is quite impressive. To be a strong person, one not only needs to strengthen the body, but also, more importantly, to enrich the heart, to accumulate more and more wisdom.
Excerpt 3: How Should We Face Challenges?
When encountering with difficult, painful or depressing situations of various kinds, we should not run away from them nor avoid confronting the challenges. We should deal with them skillfully and wisely. In this way, we can build a promising and bright future.
Excerpt 4: Our Outlook on Life
More importantly, in samsara, every one of us has to face the process of birth, aging, sickness, and death. If we rely on the aspiration and blessing power of Buddha Amitabha, we can leave this process behind and take rebirth in his Pure Land of Great Bliss. Keeping this view of life in our minds is perhaps much more important than obtaining any worldly education and knowledge.
Excerpt 5: A Spiritual Home to Return To
For human beings, once we are born, we will inevitably die. Every one of us here, no matter who we are, or what color of our skin is—black, white or yellow—we all will depart from this world within 100 years. When we are dying, we need a spiritual support that we can trust and have a spiritual destination to go to. This can be bestowed on us by Buddha Amitabha if we pray to him.
What Is Love?
What is love? Some of you may know it well while others may not. Whatever the case is, we are born into this world needing love. This kind of love, sometimes can also be interpreted as a compassionate heart.
A Spiritual Home to Return To
For human beings, once we are born, we will inevitably die. Every one of us here, no matter who we are, or what color of our skin is—black, white or yellow—we all will depart from this world within 100 years. When we are dying, we need a spiritual support that we can trust and have a spiritual destination to go to. This can be bestowed on us by Buddha Amitabha if we pray to him.
“If we are both physically and mentally strong, all the difficulties we encounter in life can be resolved smoothly.”
