I'm in LOVE with a Budda's Quote!

DaltheJigsaw

All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

-Buddha

Cloud

Put this in arts & writings, but you're right... good one.

federica

When's the wedding, Leon?

Great quotation....

Can you give a source, at all?

(I'm on Facebook too much. I keep hitting 'return' to submit a post - !!)

DairyLama

It sounds like an adaptation of the first 2 verses of the Dhammapada:

1. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.

2. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him

Lotus21

A person can go through this lifetime in misery because the person can not change one thought. It is that difficult to change one's mind. For this reason we need to stay open-minded about things....

Here is another verse from Dhammapada;

42-43
Whatever harm an enemy may do to an enemy, or
a hater to a hater, an ill-directed mind inflicts on oneself a greater harm.
Neither mother, father, nor any other relative can do one greater good than one's own well-directed mind.

Beej

I read this same quote in a Thich Nhat Hanh book called Touching the Earth: 46 Guided Meditations For Mindfull Living (I think). Maybe it's from that book? It was a nice little collection of affirmations and suggestions. I would read a few meditations everyday and allow them to sink in. I would naturally start to wonder about something else, and then the next day the very thing that I was wondering about would be in the next few meditations that I was about to read. It almost seemed like the book new what I needed next.

Here's the exact quote from the book:

"All wrong-doing arises from the mind. When the mind is purified, what trace of wrong is left? After repentance my heart is light like the white clouds that have always floated over the ancient forest in freedom."

DaltheJigsaw

When's the wedding, Leon?

Great quotation....

Can you give a source, at all?

(I'm on Facebook too much. I keep hitting 'return' to submit a post - !!)

Source is Buddha:) But I got it from a Newsfeed.