The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. —Abraham Lincoln
Greg Martin • The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self
Because, before we can change the destiny of the world, we must first change ourselves.
Greg Martin • The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self
Neither wealth, status, fame nor beauty can assure us of a happy life. This is because happiness based on these things is relative happiness. It is dependent, circumstantial and temporary. Whoever strives to construct a happy life based on wealth, status, fame or beauty will eventually encounter dissatisfaction, loss and unhappiness. Instead, Buddh
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Buddhism teaches that one’s own awakening (or transformation) also has an immediate and far-reaching effect on his or her family, friends and society.
Greg Martin • The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self
Buddha is you. That is, each and every human being contains the inherent capacity to be a Buddha, an ancient Indian word meaning “enlightened one,’’ or one who is awakened to the eternal and unchanging truth of life.
Greg Martin • The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self
Buddhism clearly explains that suffering emerges in our hearts because we forget the principle of impermanence and believe that what we possess will last forever.
Greg Martin • The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self
Everything in our existence is eternally etched at the deepest levels of our lives.
Greg Martin • The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self
Nichiren taught that sufferings arise from “looking outside of oneself” for the cause or the solution to problems. The fact that it is you who are suffering means it is your problem to solve, not someone else’s.
Greg Martin • The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self
To understand that life means difficulty liberates us because it helps us to understand problems and suffering as natural parts of life, not as signs of our inadequacies.