Jewel Heart International Blog

What most mothers care about is their kids being happy, kind, good people. Some mothers are not your biological mother. They are the mother that took care of you and taught you how to be kind, honest, to behave well, and how to find happiness in your life. According to the Mahayana view, when Buddha...
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When Buddha was conceived, there were signs that he would become the teacher of everybody, someone who could lead everybody. His mother Mahamaya told her husband the king, “Now we have to release the prisoners.” Releasing prisoners does not mean releasing them all on the street to do crazy things. Many prisoners at that time...
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What is your own practice? Your own practice is recognizing the ultimate truth, understanding what is reality. And training your mind to be a good person. That is your practice. Your achievement is whenever you change yourself, whenever you are trying to be a better person, changing your behavior. For example, in earlier times you...
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In one way, I feel like many wise people are Buddhist, even though they don’t know they are Buddhist. Why? Because technically they believe in taking refuge in the Three Jewels practice over taking refuge in a deity that they have no idea where it lives, how it functions and especially how that works.  There...
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If you have a proper refuge taking practice, there is no doubt you are Buddhist. In society, whether they call or recognize you as Buddhist or not, that’s a social thing. But based on your spiritual practice, yes, you are. So therefore, the practice of taking refuge should be a perfect way to take refuge....
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