How long are yougoing to waitbefore you demand the bestfor yourself?–...

Why be satisfied witha little improvementwhen you can strivefor full perfection?–...

When we are no longer ableto change a situation,we are challengedto change ourselves.– Viktor FranklChanging of ourselves begins at the most fundamental level, of thought… and mindfulness of Buddha does...

What man actually needsis not a tensionless statebut rather thestriving and strugglingfor some goal worthy of him.– Viktor Frankl… until we become Buddhas, when what we do will be strifeless,...

I begin to speak only whenI’m certain what I’ll sayisn’t better left unsaid.–...

As mad men often thinkthat black is white,so foolishness isnext of kin to madness. – Musonius Rufus(On...

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.– W.H....

Either you were banished justly or unjustly.If justly, how can it be right or fittingto feel aggrieved at just punishment?If unjustly, the evil involved is not ours,but falls upon those who banished us. – Musonius Rufus(Exile Is Not An Evil)[If banished justly,there should just be...

The wise and sensible…do not think that disgracelies in enduring them[i.e. malignant glances, laughs,strikes or reviles],but rather in doing them. – Musonius Rufus(Will The Philosopher Prosecute Anyone For Personal Injury?) ‘For what does the man who submits to insult do...

We do not feelthe lack of many thingsunless we wishto live luxuriously. – Musonius Rufus(Exile Is Not An...

Philosophy is nothing elsethan to search out by reasonwhat is right and properand by deedsto put it into practice. – Musonius Rufus(Is Marriage A Handicap For The Pursuit Of...

Shall we not be readyto endure hardshipfor the sake ofcomplete happiness? – Musonius Rufus(That One Should Disdain...

You will earnthe respect of all menif you beginby earningthe respect of yourself. – Musonius Rufus(Fragments:...

One man and one aloneshall we consider rich,the man who hasacquired the abilityto want for nothingalways and everywhere.– Musonius Rufus(Fragments:...

If one accomplishes some good,though with toil,the toil passes,but the good remains.If one does somethingdishonourable with pleasure,the pleasure passes,but the dishonour remains.– Musonius Rufus(Fragments:...

Do not expectto urge right doing upon menwho are conscious ofyour own wrongdoing.– Musonius Rufus(Fragments:...

It is not possibleto live well todayunless one thinks of itas his last.– Musonius Rufus(Fragments:...

In a comic by Fēng Zikǎi (丰子恺) titled ‘Clock Awaiting Repair’ (待修的钟), a grinning man points at a public clock labelled ‘Official Standard Clock’ (标准钟) to another man and two children. Its hands claim it is 2 o’clock, while the sun has almost set. This can be...

Deeply penetrate the sutra treasury (深入经藏). But remember to emerge, to practise that learnt too, and not stay buried in...

If you fall, maybe you need to rest. If you are rested, maybe you need to...

Humans, being part of nature, should live in peace with...

Forming an overhead bridge to protect the tiny. May all parents teach and praise their children for practising compassion towards all beings, from the smallest to the...

Does a mother hen not love her chicks like a human mother love her children? Do chicks not love their mother like human children love their mother? Why separate them...

Is not the opening of all kinds of packaging with deceased animals’ parts within, the opening of caskets? Is not the devouring of their remains the eating of...

 Covidiocy If how a physical pandemic is contracted and spread is already known, but its prevention still purposely ignored, this reveals the mental pandemic at work – the disease of delusion, arrogance, apathy… now called...

Delusion: Super Short Story #723He is so deludedthat he does not knowhe is so deluded,even thinking he istotally undeluded. His state is the exactlythe opposite of being...

Loss: Super Short Story #722She thinks he will realiseher great value after she is gone. But he is so unappreciativethat he never valued herin the first place,what more to be able to see the differencewith her gone.While he will not feel any sense of loss,it was truly the greatest of...

Fairness: Super Short Story #721She thinks life is unfair,but if it is equally unfair,he says,then it turns out fair. Then she thought life is sometimes unfair,but if equally sometimes unfair,he says,then it turns out fair. But what if it isnot equally sometimes unfair?If that is really a...

Asymptomatic: Super Short Story #720 Just as anyone could bean asymptomatic carrier of a virusthat leads to death, all of us are already asymptomatic carriers of the potential of death,simply by being...

Energy: Super Short Story #719 Some folks’ high energymake you lose energy. Keeping up with their intense inexhaustibilityis itself intensely exhausting. In their attempt to energise others,they de-energise them. But when you deliberately slow down,they might slow down too.Instead of...