My journey....to happiness

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Rich Generosity

by Venerable Sheng Yen

When a candle is lit in a dark room, it illuminates the room to some extent, but its power is limited. But if you use the same candle to light another candle, the total brightness increases. If you continue to do this, you can fill the room with brilliant illumination. The idea of transferring merit to others is like this. If we keep our own light selfishly hidden, it will only provide a limited amount of illumination. But when we share our light with others, we do not diminish our own light. Rather, we increase the amount of light available to all. Therefore, when others light our candle, we issue forth light. When out of gratitude we use our candle to light other people’s candles, the whole room gets brighter. This is why we transfer merit to others. This kind of light is continuous and inexhaustible.

When we achieve a mind of gratitude and dedicate ourselves to helping others, we can practice generosity. We can be generous with our wealth, with ourselves, and with the Dharma. In some ways, giving wealth is the easiest. If we consume less and live more frugally, we can give away what we save.

It is also useful to remember that the nature of giving is not necessarily dependent on the size or the value of the gift. Once, the Buddha was about to teach the Dharma to a congregation in the forest, but it got dark. Several people offered their lamps, but there was a homeless woman whose only possession was an alms bowl, which she offered to serve as an oil lamp. On realising this, the Buddha exclaimed to his congregation that the old lady’s virtue was the most excellent, as she had offered her total wealth, the begging bowl. By making her offering, do you think she lost anything?

“Hello? Yes, this whale looks very suspicious. I think he may be trying to get inside a part of the sea that’s not his. Just come quickly.”

Edit: added some gifs, check the notes!

Anthony James Whitewolf as Sokka

Blu Hunt as Katara

Forrest Wheeler as Aang

Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Toph

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Iroh

Ryan Potter as Zuko

Nichole Bloom as Azula

Rila Fukushima as Mai

Teresa Daley as Ty Lee

meditate for emotional healing! 

safe return / avatar the last airbender

You may have clear skin, a nice face, you may wear a lovely sari or be a great athlete, but without love in your heart you are an ugly human being, ugly beyond measure; and when you love, whether your face is homely or beautiful, it has radiance.

To love is the greatest thing in life; and it is very important to talk about love, to feel it, to nourish it, to treasure it, otherwise it is soon dissipated, for the world is very brutal.

Buddha quotes.

This umpire basically accused her of cheating! And penalized her for his accusations. This is touchy for Serena being that they have been conspiring against her for the longest with the whole drug testing. She’s had it with them opposing her with no merit or basis! SHE HAS NEVER CHEATED which has been proven time after time with those negative results. and to accuse her of that during this game is why she is extremely and rightfully emotional! The pain and humiliation in her voice says it all. It really hurt her for him to accuse her of that so publicly too. He announced it during the match on the mic to everyone and now that’s like a stain on this moment forever. That’s why she’s demanding he apologize to her and say it over the loudspeaker. To set the record straight that she didn’t do what he alleged.

Honestly she has faced the most her entire career and her mental fortitude to endure it and still be dominant is a miracle. ALWAYS A QUEEN

Not only did he try to steal this moment from Serena, he also cast a shadow over what should’ve been an AMAZING victory for 20 year old Naomi Osaka, a Haitian-Japanese player who’s the first Japanese Player to win a Grand Slam tournament.

One of our readers came to us with a question about texting and the psychological impacts it’s been having on their relationship. Even though the couple texted all the time, the relationship felt like much less than it was when they started it. They couldn’t figure out what was going on. They were communicating just as much, but it turns out they were also communicating with other people more too: valuable couple time had turned into sitting-beside-each-other-texting-other-people time. How did that happen?!

Texting is a double edged sword. While it helps you stay in instant touch with the people you love, it also distracts from valuable face-to-face time with them. We chose to do an article on the psychological impacts of texting because of problems like these. Read on to learn about the pitfalls of texting, and the ways it can psychologically hurt you and your relationships.  

1. Non-verbal? Nonsense!

Taking out body language cues, facial expressions, and breath can have negative impacts on conversation. Because the basis of texting is text, it’s almost impossible to send subtext and non-verbal cues to your partner…