Enlightenment

You can not become more Enlightened since the true nature of your BEING is a TOTAL Enlightenment. For the true IS you are Fully Enlightened at the CORE of your BEING. You have have simply FORGOTTEN your true STATE OF Enlightenment.

Therefore seek only to remember and realize more of who you ALREADY are not by trying to BECOME Enlightened but just BE Enlightened NOW.

Put another way start by accepting the present moment as IT IS without judging the NOW as either GOOD or BAD regardless of what is happening right now. -- Shirvington Hannays

Power of the MIND

Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the MIND, delighting in mischief, will catch you. -- Dhammapada 116.

IT Begins with YOU -- Shirvington Hannays

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. -- Thich Nhat Hanh; Being Peace.

Life and Expectations

What people expect to happen is always different from what actually happens. From this comes great disppointment; this is the way the world works. -- Sutta Nipata 588

Happiness

All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness. All those happy in the world are so because of their desire for the happiness of others. -- Santideva; Bodhicaryavatara 8. 129