problems do not cause suffering
the cause is how we choose to react to the problems..
Sunday, 7 August 2011
Buddhist Sayings
the awakened person
stil showers all loving kindness
and understanding
even when
cast out by relatives
scorned by friends
rejected by colleagues
ignored by strangers.
stil showers all loving kindness
and understanding
even when
cast out by relatives
scorned by friends
rejected by colleagues
ignored by strangers.
Buddhist Sayings
one who is liberated
thinks what he wishes
and does not think
any thought he does not wish to.
thinks what he wishes
and does not think
any thought he does not wish to.
Buddhist Sayings
calm the mind
let go of pain
let go of sorrow
let go of bitterness
heal the heart..
find joy
find serenity
find equanimity
let go of pain
let go of sorrow
let go of bitterness
heal the heart..
find joy
find serenity
find equanimity
Path To Peace
.. Is a book the Buddha gave me. He's not really a Buddha, but a Buddhist Monk - Pannasekara but for the sake of this blog, I shall call him the Buddha.
Here are some of my favourite little thoughts & sayings from a book he gave me.. you have to pay it forward.. so here goes..
a drop of rain falls gently on a leaf and slowly rolls off
it does not have thoughts of like or dislike, it does not attach
likewise, our minfs should see everything clearly
withour differentiation, without attaching..
Here are some of my favourite little thoughts & sayings from a book he gave me.. you have to pay it forward.. so here goes..
a drop of rain falls gently on a leaf and slowly rolls off
it does not have thoughts of like or dislike, it does not attach
likewise, our minfs should see everything clearly
withour differentiation, without attaching..
Tanga
Just back ( Sunday evening ) from a wee holiday to Tanga with Anita, her husband K, kids David ( 4 ), Peras ( almost 2 ), Jeans and Hamila.
Hamila is from Tanga and looks after the kids fulltime with Anita & K. Jeans is K's niece and also lives with them.
Had a lovely time chilling at The Yacht Club and met some interesting people.
Also ran into Kwang, Sarah's friend who is living in her home at the moment.
They're both teenagers and help out with the kids and cooking and Hamila is teaching me Swahili, though her English isn't very good, so I am struggling a bit and also trying to help her with her English!
It's pretty remote, by the sea and very very chilled. Read a lot, played with the kids and hung out at the Yacht Club where I managed to swap one of my books for Out of Africa, which just happens to be one of my favourite books and I was looking for a copy here - tried 4 different branches of A Novel Idea to no avail, then came across a very old and battered copy at the Yacht Club. Hurrah!
We headed back thid morning, we left at 11.15am and arrived back to Anita's for dinner at 4.30pm.. Am working back the way after a lovely few days, well read, well slept, well fed and well watered! It rained quite a lot so there was no sunbathing to be done, which is all good in my book! Factor 50 doesn't really lend itself to a tan for me!
Hamila is from Tanga and looks after the kids fulltime with Anita & K. Jeans is K's niece and also lives with them.
Had a lovely time chilling at The Yacht Club and met some interesting people.
Also ran into Kwang, Sarah's friend who is living in her home at the moment.
They're both teenagers and help out with the kids and cooking and Hamila is teaching me Swahili, though her English isn't very good, so I am struggling a bit and also trying to help her with her English!
It's pretty remote, by the sea and very very chilled. Read a lot, played with the kids and hung out at the Yacht Club where I managed to swap one of my books for Out of Africa, which just happens to be one of my favourite books and I was looking for a copy here - tried 4 different branches of A Novel Idea to no avail, then came across a very old and battered copy at the Yacht Club. Hurrah!
We headed back thid morning, we left at 11.15am and arrived back to Anita's for dinner at 4.30pm.. Am working back the way after a lovely few days, well read, well slept, well fed and well watered! It rained quite a lot so there was no sunbathing to be done, which is all good in my book! Factor 50 doesn't really lend itself to a tan for me!
Monday, 1 August 2011
Monday 8 July
Had morning coffee with Panna today at the Movenpick. It was 10 000TSH, that is equivalent to a days wages for a builder at the School. No more expensive coffees for me!
We went to Chanika today ( 30km outside of Dar ) and it took us hours to get there. The traffiki here is seriously mental. We sat at one set of lights for almost 20 minutes!!
We also visited the Tanzanian equivalent of Homebase or B&Q. Quite an experience!
When we arrived at the School it was great to see lots of progress. You can see that from my pics.
16 children will be welcomed to the School this Thursday.
Panna made me laugh out loud today when he said I need Panna x 5 in duplicate, meaning he needs 10 of himself to make sure everything is done as there are so many things to do.
He is completely in charge of everything and its quite amazing to see him in action.
He told me today he is off to Spain on the 15th of September until mid October. He asked me what my plan was, I told him I don't have one, which is true. Kind of liberating but also kind of unsettling...
We went to Chanika today ( 30km outside of Dar ) and it took us hours to get there. The traffiki here is seriously mental. We sat at one set of lights for almost 20 minutes!!
We also visited the Tanzanian equivalent of Homebase or B&Q. Quite an experience!
When we arrived at the School it was great to see lots of progress. You can see that from my pics.
16 children will be welcomed to the School this Thursday.
Panna made me laugh out loud today when he said I need Panna x 5 in duplicate, meaning he needs 10 of himself to make sure everything is done as there are so many things to do.
He is completely in charge of everything and its quite amazing to see him in action.
He told me today he is off to Spain on the 15th of September until mid October. He asked me what my plan was, I told him I don't have one, which is true. Kind of liberating but also kind of unsettling...
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