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Mother and Father

There are two people who are not easy to repay-- your father and mother.
Even if you were to carry your mother on one shoulder and your father on the other shoulder for one hundred years and to look after them by bathing and massaging their limbs and they were to defecate and urinate on you, you would not be repaying your parents.
Even if you were to establish them in entire world, you would not be repaying your parents.
Why not? Mother and father do so much for their children!
They care for them, nourish them, and introduce them to this world.
However, one who rouses his unbelieving parents and establishes them in the Dhamma, rouses his unvirtuous parents and establishes them in virtue, rouses his stingy parents and establishes them in generosity, and rouses his foolish parents and establishes them in wisdom, is, so that extent, repaying one's mother and father.

(Buddha)
Anguttara Nikaya 2,31-32

The Three Characteristics
All that is conditioned is impermanent;
When with wisdom one sees this,
One tries of suffering--
This is the path to purity.

All that is conditioned is suffering;
When with wisdom one sees this,
One tries of suffering--
This is the path of purity.

All phenomena are non-self;
When with wisdom one sees this,
One tries of suffering--
This is the path to purity.

  

Advice to Rahula
Develop the meditation on loving-kindness, for, by so doing, hatred will be got rid of.
Develop the meditation on compassion, for, by so doing, cruelty will be got rid of.
Develop the meditation on sympathetic joy, for, by so doing, discontent will be got rid of.
Develop the meditation on equanimity, for, by so doing, aversion will be got rid of.
Develop the meditation on the impure, for, by so doing, attachment will be got rid of.
Develop the meditation on perception of impermanence, for, by so doing, the conceit "I am" will be got rid of.
(Majjima Nikaya 62, translated by Ken and Visakha) 

An Auspicious Day

Don't dwell on the past;
Don't long for the future.
The past is gone;
The future is yet to come.

With mindfulness be aware
Of every present moment,
Training the mind with
Diligence and steadfastness.

Who knows when death may come?
Perhaps tomorrow he will strike.
There is no bargaining
With him or with his army.

For one who practices in this way,
Both ardent and untiring,
Everyday, the Buddha taught,
Is an auspicious day.
(Buddha)
--Majjhima Nikaya 131.

 

Why conflicts arise?

Bad words blaming others.

Arrogant words humiliating others.
From these behaviors
Come hatred and resentment.
…
Hence conflicts arise,
Rendering in people malicious thoughts

Buddha
Dhammapada


Drunkenness
Drunkenness expels reason,
 
Drowns memory,
 
Defaces the brain,
 
Diminishes the strength,
 
inflames the blood,
 
Causes external and
 
internal incurable wounds,
 
Is a witch to the body,
 
A devil to the mind,
 
A thief to the purse,
 
The beggar's curse,
 
The wife's woe,
 
The children's sorrow,
 
The picture of a beast,
 
And self murder,
 
Who drinks to others health,
 
And robs himself of his own