Balance

Tarthang Tulku - Mandala Gardens

Nature and Spirituality

The power and beauty of the environment create a support for spiritual endeavors. Inner spiritual realities are reflected in the colors, shapes and forms of the outer natural world. This relationship is as a mandala, an aesthetic and symbolic arrangement of elements around a central point. [...] The world of nature speaks to the human heart directly: sustained, nourished and supported by beauty, the heart begins to open like the petals of a flower unfolding. The flower of the heart is the center of the mandala. When the heart opens, we begin to realize the unity of existence and our communion with nature -Tarthang Tulku, Mandala Gardens

Albert Einstein on Buddha, Moses, and Jesus

What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. -Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein on Buddhism

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. -Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein on the Religion of the Future

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. -Albert Einstein

Love yourself

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha

Fate and Action

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

- Buddha

Start Action, Getting Results

"Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it". -Goethe

The Voice within Yourself

Human Beings and the Universe

A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the 
whole of nature in its beauty. ... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. -Albert Einstein