Peace Of Mind

Mediation is greatly valued as a means of treating stress and its associated conditions, such as insomnia, headaces, and certain skin complaints. It is also regarded as a source of physical relaxation and peace of mind. The person who has peace of mind will eat better, sleep better and generally feel better.

Meditate on SELF DEFENSE OF FRIENDSHIP 

One should keep his friend from falling into evil ways, should protect his property and wealth, and should help him in troubles. If his friend has some misfortune, he should give him a helping hand, evening supporting his family, if necessary. If your friend is poor man, it is hard for a poor man to be generous but he or she will do there best to help you.

In this way, their friendship will be maintained and they will be increasingly happy together.

How to distinguish a good friend from a bad friend that make your life miserable in the long run.

1 The leech who borrows your possession and never returns them.

2 The person who uses you for self gain, and leaves you once you they have it.

3. The person who flatters you for self gain.

4. The party animal who encourages you to do the same wasting your time and life.

A good friend on the other hand is someone who...

1 Is always ready to help you.

2. Is steady and loyal

3 Provides good advise.

4 Is sympathetic and understanding to your feelings.

Friends and family should give you !!!

If these are not given you could loss your friendship!!! The Seven Kinds of offerings which can be practice by even those who are not wealthy.

The first is the physical offering. This is to offer service by one's labor.

The highest type of this offering is to offer one's own life as is shown in the following story.

The second is the spiritual offering. This is the offer a compassionate heart to others.

The third is the offering of eyes. This is to offer a warm glance to others which will give them tranquility.

The fourth is the offering of countenance. This is offer a soft countenance with a smile to others.

The fifth is the oral offering. This is to offer kind and warm word to others.

The sixth is the seat offering. This is to offer one's seat to others.

The seventh is the offering of shelter. This is to let other spend a night at one's home. These kinds of offering can be practiced by anyone in everyday life.

The Illness:  The Truth of  Mental Suffering:

1. a. Thinking of sickness and death causes mental suffering.

b. To meet a man whom one hates, causes mental suffering.

c. To be separated from loved ones, cause mental suffering.

d. A life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with distress. This is called the truth of mental suffering.

2. The cause of the illness of human mental suffering is undoubtedly founded in the clinging thirsts of the physical body and if these illusions are traced to their source, they are found to be routed in the intense desire of physical and material instincts. Attachment to all of the number 1 cause pain & mental suffering.

3. How to get rid illness of mental suffering: detachment of clinging to, desire, greed, ego, envy, hatred or anger.

4. If  you detach yourself from   1,2,3. mental suffering disappears   Then you have found freedom & liberation: Knowledge with wisdom. May everyone become educated for the benefit of yourself & humanity.

The Remedy of the mental Illness: The Eight-Fold Path

1. Right View means seeing clearly without delusion.

2. Right Thought means not to possess feelings of clinging, desire, greed, envy, hatred or anger.

3. Right Speech means avoidance of lying words, idle words, abusive words and double-meaning.

4. Right Behavior means not to destroy any life, not to steal and not to commit adultery.

5. Right Livelihood means to avoid harming any life that would bring shame.

6. Right Effort means try to do one’s best diligently towards the right direction

7. Right Mindfulness means to keep a pure and thoughtful mind.

8. Right Concentration means to keep the mind right and tranquil for it’s concentration, seeking to realize the mind’s pure essence.

I. There is no sin, only lack of knowledge and wrong view, wrong view will be corrected by cause and effect if they do not learn, the lesson will repeat over and over again and some people will kill themselves through their own cause and effect. The law enforcement will protect all living beings.

II. By all means protect your mind from outside invaders. Keep a pure heart and a pure mind.

III. Do not waste your time on idle quarreling.

The 5 Precepts of Compassion

1. Do not kill       All living beings have the right to protect themselves to survive.

2. Do not steal,     not to take what is not given.

3. Do not commit adultery,       any harmful sexual conduct.

4. Do not lie.       “Slander speech, nonsense talk, harmful harsh speech.”

5. Do not take intoxicants of any kind, they cloud the mind.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own mind unguarded. But once mastered and directed, no one can help you as much, not even your mother or  father.

Tigers Martial Arts of

[ Mind Disciple of internal Warriors ]  THE DHAMMPADA

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. All (mental) states have mind as  their forunner, mind is their chief, and they are mind- made. If one speaks or acts, with a defiled mind, then suffering follows one even as the wheel follows the hoof of the draught-ox.

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. All (mental) states have mind as their forunner, mind is their chief, and they are mind- made. If one speaks or acts, with a pure mind, happiness follows one as ones shadow that does not leave one.

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. "He abused me, he beat beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me": The hatred of those who harbored such thoughts is not appeased.

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Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; it is appeased by love. This is an eternal law.

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Whosoever is energetic, mindful, pure in conduct, discriminating, self restrained, right-living, vigilant, his fame steadily increases.

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By endeavor, diligence, discipline, and self- mastery, let the wise man make (of himself) an island that no flood can overwhelm.

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Fools, men of little intelligence, give themselves to negligence, but the wise man protects his diligence as a supreme treasure.

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Give not yourselves unto negligence; have no intimacy with sense pleasures. The man who meditates with much diligence attains much happiness.

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This fickle, unsteady mind, difficult to guard, difficult to control, the wise man makes straight, as the fletcher the arrow.

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Hard to restrain, unstable is the mind: it flits wherever it lists. Good is to control the mind. A controlled mind brings happiness

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He whose mind is unsteady, he who knows not the good teaching, he whose confidence wavers, the wisdom of such a person does nor attain fullness.

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Whatever harm a foe may do to a foe, or hater to another  hater, a wrongly- directed mind may do one harm for exceeding these.

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Neither mother, nor father, nor any other relative can do a man such good as is wrought by a right- directed mind.

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 The man who gathers only the flowers (of sense pleasures), whose mind is entangled, death carries him away as a good flood a sleeping village.

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One should not pry into the faults of others, into things done and left undone by other. One should rather consider what by oneself is done and left undone. 

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As a beautiful flower that is full of hue but lacks fragrance, even so fruitless is the well- spoken word of one who does not practice it.

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If, as one fares, one dose not find a companion who is better of equal, let one resolutely pursue the solitary course; there can be no fellowship with the full.

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"I have a sons, I have wealth": Thinking thus the fool is troubled. Indeed, he himself is not his own how can his sons or wealth be his?

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Even if all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he will not understand the Truth, even as the spoon "dose not understand" the flavor of the soup.

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The deed is not well done, which one regrets when one is done and the result of which one experiences wheeoing with a tearful face.

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The fool thinks an evil deed as sweet as honey, so long as it dose not ripen (dose not produce results). But when it ripens, the fool comes to grief.

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Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

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Even as a lake, deep, extremely clear and tranquil, so do the wise become tranquil haven heard the Virtuous Teaching.

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Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

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For him, who has completed the journey, who is sorrow less, wholly set, and rid of all bonds, for such a one there is no burning (of the passions).

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He who senses are mastered like horses well under the charioteer's control, he who is purged of pride, free from passions, such a steadfast one even the gods envy (hold dear).

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Calm is the thought, calm the word and deed of him who, rightly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly peaceful and equipoised.

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The man who is not credulous, who knows the "untreated" who has severed all ties, who has put an end to the occasion of (of good and evil), who has vomited all desires, verily he his supreme among them.                                                                           

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One may conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, yet he is the best of conquers who conquers his-self.

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Better is it truly to conquer ones-self than to conquer others. Neither god, nor an "angel", could turn into defeat the victory of a person such as this who is self mastered and ever restrained in conduct.

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Though one may live a hundred years with no true insight and self-control, yet better, indeed, is a life of one day for a man who meditates in wisdom.                                                                        page 2

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Make haste in doing good; restrain your mind  from evil who so ever is slow in doing good, his mind deletes in evil.

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It is ill, perhaps, with the doer of good until his good deed ripens. But when it bares fruit, then he sees the happy results.

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Do not think lightly of evil, saying: "It will not come to me." Even a water-pot is filled by the falling of drops. Likewise the fool, gathering it drop by drop, fills himself with evil.

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Do not think lightly of good, sayings: "It will not come to me." Even a water-pot is filled by the falling drops, so the wise man, gathering it drop by drop fills himself with good.

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Who so ever offends an innocent person, pure and guiltless, his evil comes back on that fool himself like fine dust thrown against the wind.

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All tremble at weapons; all fear death. Comparing others with oneself, one should not slay, nor cause to slay.

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He who,seeking his own happiness, torments with the rod creatures that are desirous of happiness, shall not obtain happiness here after.

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The man of little learning "ignorant" grown like a bull; his flesh grows, but not his wisdom.                                                           155

Not having lived a Virtuous Life, not having obtained wealth in their youth, men find a way like old herons in a lake without fish.

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If a man practices himself what he admonishes others to do, he himself, being well- controlled, will have control over others. It is difficult, indeed, to control oneself.

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Oneself is ones own protector (refuge); what other protector (refuge) can there be? With ones; fully controlled, one obtains a protection (refuge) which is hard to gain.

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By oneself indeed is evil done and by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone and oneself indeed is one purified. Purity and impurity depend on oneself. No one can purify another.

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Do not follow mean things. Do not dwell In negligence. Do not embrace false views. So the world is not prolonged.

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Come, behold this world,how it resembles an ornamented royal chariot, in which fools flounder, but  for the wise there is no attachment to it.

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Better is the game of Entering the Stream than sole sovereignty over the earth, then go into heaven, than urle supreme over the entire universe.

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Not to do any evil, to cultivate good, to purify one's mind, this is the virtuous Teachings.

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The most excellent ascetic practice is patience and forbearance. He indeed is no recruse who harms another; nor is he an ascetic who hurts others.

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To speak no ill, to do no harm to practice retain according to the fundamental precepts, to be moderate in eating, to live in seclusion, to devote oneself to higher consciousness, this is the Virtuous Teaching.

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Happy indeed we live without hate among the hateful. We live free from hatred amidst hateful men.

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The conqueror begets enmity; the defeated lie down in distress. The peaceful rest in happiness giving up both victory and defeat.

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Health is the best gain; contentment is the best wealth.  A trusty friend is the best kinsmen.

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Having tasted of the flavor of solitude and tranquility, one becomes wouless and stainless, drinking the essence of the joy of Truth.

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From lust arises grief; from lust arises fear. For him who is free from lust there is no grief, much less fear.

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He who holds back arisen anger  as  one checks a whirling tariot, him I call a charioteer; of the folk only hold the reigns.

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Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the meiser with liberality, and the liar with truth.                                                  

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Be on regard against physical agitation; be controlled in body. Forsaking bodily misconduct, follow right conduct through body.

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Be on your guard against verbal agitation, be controlled in words. Forsaking wrong speech, follow right ways in words.

233 Be on your guard against mental agitation, be controlled in thoughts. Forsaking evil thoughts, follow right ways in thoughts.                  

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The wise are controlled in deed, controlled in words, controlled in thoughts, verily, they are fully controlled.

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By degrees, little by little, for moment to moment, a wise man removes his own impurities, as a smith removes the draws of silver.

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As rust, arisen out of iron, eats itself away, even so his own deeds lead the transgressor to the states of woe.

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Know this, O good man, that evil things are uncontrollable. Let not greed and wickedness drag you to suffering for a long time.

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There is no fire like lust. There is no grip like hate. There is no net like delusion. There is no river like craving.

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The fault of others is easily seen; but one's own is hard to see. Like chaff one winnows other's faults; but one's own one conceals as a crafty fowled disguises himself.

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He who has transcended both merit (good) and demerit (evil), he who leads a pure life, he who lives with understanding in this world, he, indeed, is called a virtuous person.

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Not by silence dose one become a sage (muni) if one be foolish and untaught. But the wise man who, as if holding a pair of scales, takes what is good and leaves out what is evil, is indeed a sage. For that reason he is a sage. He who understands both sides in this world is called a sage.

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Of paths the Eightfold Path is the best; of truths Four Words (Noble Truths); detachment is the best of states and of bipeds the Seeing One (the Man Of Vision).

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This is the only Way. There is no other for the purification of Vision. Follow this Way: this is the bewilderment of evil.

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Following this Way you shall make an end of suffering. this verily is the Way: declared by me when I had learnt to remove the arrow (of suffering).

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You yourself should make the effort; the Awaken Ones are only teachers. Those who enter this Path and who are meditative, are delivered from the bonds of evil.

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'All conditioned things are impertinent', when one sees this in wisdom, then one becomes dispassionate towards the painful. This is the Path of Purity

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'All conditioned things are

', when one sees this in wisdom, then he becomes dispassionate towards the painful. This is the Path of Purity.

279 'All states are without self', when one sees this  in wisdom, then he becomes dispassionate twords the painful. This is the Path of Purity.                                       

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Who strives not when he should strive, though young and strong, is given to idleness, who is loose in his purpose and thoughts, and who is lazy--- that idler never finds the way to wisdom.

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Watchful of speech, well restrained in mind, let him do no evil with the body; let him purify these three ways of action, and attain the Path made no by the Sages.

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The craving of the man addicted to careless living grows like a creeper. He jumps higher and higher, like a monkey in the forest looking for fruit.

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Whosoever in this world is overcome by this wretched clinging thirst, his sorrows grows like grass after rain.

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But whosoever in this world overcomes this wretched craving so difficult to overcome, his sorrows fall away from him like water drops from a lotus (leaf).

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As a tree cuts down sprouts forth again if its roots remain uninjured and strong, even so when the propensity to craving is not destroyed, this suffering arises again and again.

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Led by craving men run this way and that like an ensnared hate. Therefore let the one, who wishes his attachment, discard craving.

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Free thyself from the past, free thyself from the future, free thyself from the present. Crossing to the farthest shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, no more shalt thou come to birth or decay.                                                                                                                                                                             360

Good is restraint of the eye. Good is restraint of the ear. Good is restraint of the nose. Good is restraint of the tongue.

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Good is restraint of the body. Good is restraint of the speech. Good is restraint of the mind. Restraint everywhere is good. A person who is restrained in every way is freed from all suffering.

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He who is controlled in hand, controlled in foot, controlled inspech, and possessing the highest control (of mind), delighted within, composed, solitary and contented, him they call of the regular human, the one who has an uncontrolled mind.

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One should not despise what one receives, and one should not envy the gain of others. The ones who envy's others does not contain concentration.

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He who haws no attachments whatsoever to name and form (mind and body) and he who does not grieve over what there is not, he is called the mendicant non attached human to anger desire hatred.                    

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The man, who abides in the love and kindness who is delighted in the teachings of virtue attain the state of calm the happiness of stilling the conditioned things.

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He for whom neither exists the shores nor the others, nor both, he who is undistressed and unbound, him I call a virtuous man.

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The sun glows by day; and the moon shines by night; in his armor the warrior glows. Meditation shines a virtuous man. But all day and night, shines he radiance of the awakened one.

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He whose destiny, nor the gods nor men do know, he who has destroyed defilements and become worthy, him I call a Virtuous Man .

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He who knows former lives,who sees heaven a Good Place  and hell a Bad Place, who has reached the end of births and attained to super-knowledge, the wise man, accomplished with all accomplishments, him I call a a Virtuous Man..

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If Caught in a War;

Even if your enemy catches and tortures you, if you feel resentment, you are not following the teachings of the Tigers Martial Arts Academy. Under every circumstance you should learn to think: My mind is unshakable. Words of hatred and anger shall not pass my lips. I will surround my envy with thoughts of sympathy and pity that flows out from my mind filled with compassion for all sentient life.

Do not confuse compassion for weakness

Concept of Defending yourself in Martial Arts

1. Learn the way to preserve rather than destroy.

2. Avoid rather then check;

3. Check rather then maim;

4. Maim rather then kill;

5. For all Life is Precious, nor any be Replace.

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