Buddhist Thought For The Week

The fifth step of the Eightfold Path is Right Livelihood, meaning to abstain from all evil living and all manner of ill-gotten gain or means of livelihood.

Still I Rise-Maya Angelou

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Buddhist Thought For The Week.

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

-Alan Watts

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My life has been experiencing a spiritual revival.

Everything has taken on an emotional significance that seems brighter than before.

This planet we live on and this thing called life is one beautiful piece of creation. The design of everything is too perfect to conceive and...

I am overwhelmed.

What was once secret now reveals itself to me and the glow pulses with a force that guides my mind to understanding. Thoughts that once turned negative and dark soar towards the light and love that connects us all.

My Love for everything seems boundless.

I forgive all the hurt brought to me by me. I issue only thankfulness and hope for finding a brighter future as I expect the Universe to extend to me my wish list of desires.

Everyday shall be a new day to achieve success. Everyday I vow to expect, give and receive only the best.

I am glad and thankful to be here.

My home has been found and I am at peace.

THANK YOU UNIVERSE

The Secret has been shown to me. Thank you Universe!! We are all connected & Positive thinking does effect the outcome of the future!

Buddhist Thought For The Week.

By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced; within this calmness is a richness and a potential, an inner knowledge which can render our lives boundlessly satisfying and meaningful. While the mind may be what traps us in unhealthy patterns of stress and imbalance, it is also the mind which can free us. Through meditation, we can tap the healing qualities of mind. - Tarthang Tulku

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