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My Dear Family,
I read this today in a book called The Diamond Cutter -The Buddha on managing your business and your life based on the Diamond sutra. I hope you enjoy it. It really touched my heart, which is why I am sharing it
Our beautiful arts enhance so much in our life!
With deepest respect and gratitude,
Joan
String of precious jewels
This magnificent poem was written by Nagarjuna, 18 centuries ago.
I’ll tell you briefly the fine qualities of those
on the path of compassion:
giving and ethics, patience and effort,
concentration, wisdom, compassion and such.
Giving is giving away what you have,
and ethics is doing good to others.
Patience is giving up feelings of anger,
and effort is joy that increases all good.
Concentration’s one-pointed, free of bad thoughts,
and wisdom decides what truth really is.
Compassion’s a kind of high intelligence,
mixed deep with a love for all living kind.
Giving brings wealth, a good world comes from ethics,
patience brings beauty, eminence comes from effort.
Concentration brings peace, and from wisdom comes freedom,
compassion achieves everything we all wish for.
A person who takes all seven of these and
perfects them together will reach that place
of inconceivable knowledge, no less than
the world’s protector.
I read this today in a book called The Diamond Cutter -The Buddha on managing your business and your life based on the Diamond sutra. I hope you enjoy it. It really touched my heart, which is why I am sharing it
Our beautiful arts enhance so much in our life!
With deepest respect and gratitude,
Joan
String of precious jewels
This magnificent poem was written by Nagarjuna, 18 centuries ago.
I’ll tell you briefly the fine qualities of those
on the path of compassion:
giving and ethics, patience and effort,
concentration, wisdom, compassion and such.
Giving is giving away what you have,
and ethics is doing good to others.
Patience is giving up feelings of anger,
and effort is joy that increases all good.
Concentration’s one-pointed, free of bad thoughts,
and wisdom decides what truth really is.
Compassion’s a kind of high intelligence,
mixed deep with a love for all living kind.
Giving brings wealth, a good world comes from ethics,
patience brings beauty, eminence comes from effort.
Concentration brings peace, and from wisdom comes freedom,
compassion achieves everything we all wish for.
A person who takes all seven of these and
perfects them together will reach that place
of inconceivable knowledge, no less than
the world’s protector.
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