An old master taught his students, “If I tell you, this apple is delicious, you should take note of my words, but don’t believe me offhand, because you haven’t tasted it yet.” This is true teaching, as seeing or experiencing is believing. Therefore, we should not believe in hearsay and philosophy, or these are the words of our teacher, we must experience it, knowing and seeing it by our own experience.
It is stated that if we realize that our feelings such as anger, anxiety, worry and jealousy, occur or hide within our mind, we will mindfully guard our own mind, not to react to what we contact with too quickly as it will provoke those of our feelings. We will calmly and mindfully observe things…
It is stated that life is short, time is fast, we should enjoy every moment of our life. Because time is life, life is precious. Therefore, we should spend it in the right way; the way of peace and happiness.
It is stated that the good things we think, we will do for our loved ones, may turn out to harm them. Because If we think of others as we are, we will give them what we like. However, if we think of others as they are, we will do or give what they like….
It is stated that “Life is short”, so we must spend it in a useful and positive way like eat healthy food, when we are hungry, sleep well, when we are sleepy, rest enough, when we are tired, say sorry when we are wrong and thank life as we wake up with it in every…
We will be endlessly unhappy, if we try to control the uncontrollable things. It is true as this world keeps changing; we cannot control anything in this world, even our own life. For example, we cannot control our age, we are just getting older and older. We cannot control our health, we are subject to…
It is stated that things like fear and addiction cannot control us, if we don’t allow them, we just let things take their own natural course. Then, we will have freedom beyond both fear and addiction. On the contrary, if we allow them to control us, we would be their slave.