The teachings of the Buddha in short: — Know the truth — Say nothing to hurt others — Practice meditations — Control your thoughts — Resist evil — Free your mind of evil — Work for the good of others — Respect life
Daily Touch of Inspirations October 26th:Three parts, one aim Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
The best and the greatest number of authors have asserted that philosophy consists of three parts: the moral, the natural, and rational. The first puts the soul in order. The second thoroughly examines the natural order of things. The third inquires into the proper meaning of words, and their arrangements and proofs which keep falsehoods from creeping in to displace truth. — Seneca, Moral Letters, 89.9
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18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him,and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Leave the past behind, let the grand design take care of the future, and instead only rightly guide the present to reverence and justice. Reverence so that you'll love what you've been allotted, for nature brought you both to each other. Justice so that you'll speak the truth freely and without evasion, and so that you'll act only as the law and value of things require. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.1 (resource) Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
