Harmlessness and Tolerance ... !!!

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Friends:

Tender Harmlessness & Patient Tolerance Protects all Beings!

 

The Blessed Buddha was a great friend of tolerance & harmlessness:

 

I am a friend of the footless,I am a friend of the bipeds;I am a friend of those with four feet,I am a friend of the many-footed.May not the footless harm me,may not the bipeds harm me,may not those with four feet harm me,and may not those with many feet harm me. A. II, 72 Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the wood. No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone.Uplifted by such universal friendliness I enjoyed the forest.Finding great solace in sweet silent solitude. Suvanna-sama Jataka 540 I am a friend and helper to all,I am sympathetic to all living beings.I develop a mind full of love and delights always in harmlessness.I gladden my mind, fill it with joy,makes it immovable and unshakable.I develop the divine states of mindnot cultivated by simple men. Theragatha. 648-9

 

 

 

 

 

Thus he who both day and nighttakes delight in harmlessnesssharing love with all that live,finds enmity with none. SN I 208

He who does not strike nor makesothers strike, who robs not nor makesothers rob, sharing love with all that lives,finds enmity with none. Itivuttaka 22

 

 

As a mother even with her life protects her only son, so let one cultivate infinite, yeah universal, friendliness towards all sentient, living & breathing beings.

When one with a mind of true affection feels compassion for this entire world,above, below and across,unlimited everywhere.

 

 

The one who has left violence,who never harm any being,who never kill nor causes to kill,such one, mild, is a Holy Noble One.Dhammapada 405

The one who is friendly among the hostile,who is harmless among the violent,who is detached among the greedy,such one is a Holy Noble One.Dhammapada 406

 

 

He is not Noble who injures living beings. He is called Noble because he is gentle & kind towards all living beings. Dhammapada 270

 

Tolerance is the highest training.Patience is the best praxis.So all Buddhas say.Dhammapada 184

 

 

Let no one deceive anotheror despise anyone anywhere,or through anger or irritationwish for another to suffer. Khuddakapatha 9

Solitude is happiness for one who is content,who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees.Cordial non-violence is happiness in this worldharmlessness towards all living beings.Udana 10 How to get patience, acceptance, and non-opposing tolerance:see here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Patient_is_Tolerance.htm

 

 

 

 

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