Fragrance Of The Buddha | We Are What We Think

Swaha shares excerpts from the Dhammapada and invites us to listen with an open mind and heart. Listening to the truth of the buddhas fin this way can feel like drinking nectar, a kind of nectar that awakens the soul and the heart. The invitation of the buddhas is to wake up to our own true reality.

“We are what we think,
All that we are arises with our thoughts,
With our thoughts we make the world. 
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you.

We are what we think,
All that we are arises with our thoughts,
With our thoughts we make the world. 
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable,

“Look how he abused me and hurt me,
How he threw me down and robbed me”
Live with such thoughts and you live in hate.

“Look how he abused me and hurt me,
How he threw mw down and robbed me”
Abandon such thoughts and live in love.

In this world
Hate never yet dispelled hate
Only love dispels hate.
This is the Law, the ultimate Law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.

You too shall pass away, you too shall die.
Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
How easily the wind overturns a frail tree.

Seek happiness in the senses, in the dreams,
Indulge in food and sleep
And you too will be uprooted.
The wind cannot overturn a mountain.
Temptation cannot touch the man
Who is awake, strong and humble,
Who masters himself and follows the Law.

If a man’s thoughts are muddy and dark,
If he is reckless and full of deceit,
How can you follow the path?
How can he wear the yellow robe?

Whoever is master of his own nature,
Bright, clear and true, shining,
He may indeed wear the yellow robe.”
-Gautama Buddha

Vasant Swaha is a modern mystic sharing his love, joy, and wisdom in retreats. This is an excerpt from a Satsang in Thailand, during the “Fragrance of the Buddha” retreat on 27th of February 2016.
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