Carrot 🥕 or 🏒 Stick?

 “If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.”

- Immanuel Kant

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PEACE, unqualified

There never was a good or a bad PEACE.

- Benjamin Franklin 

Happy New 🆕 Year

"The New 🆕 Year stands before us 

Like a chapter 

In a book 📚,

Waiting to be written."

- Melody Beattle,

Popular Author.

Welcome 

Write good stories 

That brings

Healing

Peace 

And

Harmony.

Happy New 🆕 Year.

साक्षी भाव. ...Just be.. சும்மா இரு சொல்லற

witness feeling

साक्षी भाव -

Sakshi Bhava

Yes, just be.

Watching thoughts,

With no reactions.

The whirling thoughts 

Dwindle down on their own.

Then absolute silence,

That is indescribable.

Once you experience that,

It becomes your nature.

To anyone asking 

Is it difficult to do that,

Answer is

Try and you will find it.

சாட்சி உணர்வு

साक्षी भाव

ஆம், மெளனமாய் இரு.

எண்ணங்களைப் பார்த்துக்கொள்,

எந்த எதிர்வினையும் இன்றி.

அந்தச் சுழன்று கொண்டிருக்கும் எண்ணங்கள்

தானாகவே குறைந்துவிடும்.

பின்னர் முழுமையான மௌனம்,

அது விவரிக்க முடியாதது.

அதை ஒருமுறை அனுபவித்தால்,

அது உன் இயல்பாகிறது.

யாராவது கேட்டால்

இதைச் செய்வது கடினமா?

பதில்:

முயற்சி செய், உணர்ந்துக்கொள்வாய்.

தமிழ் version courtesy: perplexity 

YOUR LIFE .....IN YOUR HANDS

 Your living is determined not so much by 

what life brings to you

as by the Attitude 

you bring to life;

not so much by

what happens to you

as by the way 

your mind looks at

what happens.

- Khalil Gibran.

Dire urgent - weathering the climate

Our reality is not static. We need swifter processes and swifter structures to deal with climate change.

- Marina Silva 

Man at helm matters

The effectiveness of a Constitution, however good, depends on the people working it.

B R Ambedkar 

Education

If education doesn't teach you to resist injustice, 

IT HAS FAILED.

- John DeWey

Super 5 to care for

Thoughts 

Words

Actions

Habits

Character 

Above trigger destiny.

"Be watchful of all these,

For thoughts shape words,

Words forge actions,

Actions form habits,

Habits build character,

Character carves destiny".

- Lao Tzu 

This resonates with a Brihadaranyak Upanishad verse:

"You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny."

From Roots

All things must come to the soul from its roots, where it is planted.

- St. Teresa of Avila, Spain 

सत्यमेव जयते

सत्यमेव जयते


"Prefer a loss to a dishonest gai :
The one brings pain for moment,
The other for all time.

- Chilon of Sparta

सत्यमेव जयते from Mundaka Upanishad meaning Truth alone triumphs.

your best speech

Speak when you are angry,

And you will make

The best speech 

You will ever regret.

- Ambrose Bierce

Power of PATIENCE

There is no evil like hatred,

And no fortitude like PATIENCE.

Thus I should strive in various ways 

To Meditate on PATIENCE.

- verse two

Book 📚 by Shanthi Deva titled,

'A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life.'.

Dalai Lama 's favourite reference is to the verses in above book.

deadly anger

Whatever wholesome deeds,

Such as venerating the buddhas 

and (practising) generosity,

That have been amassed 

Over a thousand aeons,

Will all be destroyed 

In one moment of 

ANGER.

- first verse

A Guide to Bodhisattva Way of Life.

Useless worries

If a problem is fixable,

If a situation is such that you can do something about it,

Then there is no need to worry.

If it's not fixable,

Then there is no help in worrying.

There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

- The XIV Dalai Lama 

lingos

When you learn a language,

You also learn

To be 

Open-minded,

Liberal,

Tolerant,

Kind

And 

Considerate

Towards all mankind.

- Mouloud Benzadi

NATURAL, THE REAL STATE

 If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

- Ramana Maharshi

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DHYAN: ....The First priority

 A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Schedule it as you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment with the infinite” 

– Roy Eugene Davis

Live on less than you make...

Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make,

So you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.

- Dave Ramsey

Heart of a Child

 "There are only three things you need to let go of: judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child." 

- Hugh prather