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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fools and simpletons devote themselves to negligence. But the wise protect diligence as their best treasure. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta (Lovingkindness). Through lovingkindness, everyone and everything can flower again from within. Sharon Salzberg - Lovingkindness

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What would we fear if we experienced ourselves to be a part of the whole of nature, moving and changing, being born and dying? Sharon Salzberg - Lovingkindness

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s not easy to educate someone who is dogmatic, promoting a view they have formulated. Speaking of the beauty in that on which they depend, they talk of purity in accord with what they saw there. The Words of the Buddha from the Atthakavagga

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"We cannot control anger's arising. We can only learn to relate to it in a skillful way." Sharon Salzberg - Lovingkindness

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Creatures love happiness, so if you harm them with a stick in search of your own happiness, after death you won’t find happiness. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Even if it were raining money, you’d not be sated in sensual pleasures. An astute person understands that sensual pleasures offer little gratification and much suffering. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Tibetan Buddhist tradition defines renunciation as accepting what comes into our lives and letting go what leaves our lives Sharon Salzberg - Lovingkindness

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We purify the mind of the force of craving through the power of simplifying. Knowing what we need in order to be happy, true happiness cannot be found in some thing or some person because . . . that level of happiness is temporary. Sharon Salzburg's Lovingkindness

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Addicted to debating in the midst of the assembly, their need for praise makes them nervous. But when they’re repudiated they get embarrassed; upset at criticism, they find fault in others. The words of the Buddha from the Atthakavagga

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When we live with integrity, we further enhance intimacy with ourselves by being able to rejoice, taking active delight in our actions. Sharon Salzburg's Lovingkindness

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Defeat anger with kindness, villainy with virtue, stinginess with giving, and lies with truth. Speak the truth, do not be angry, and give when asked, if only a little. By these three means, you may enter the presence of the gods The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When a person returns safely after a long time spent abroad, family, friends, and loved ones celebrate their return. Just so, when one who has done good goes from this world to the next, their good deeds receive them there, as family welcomes home one they love. The Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

How can you transcend your own view when you’re led by preference, dogmatic in belief? Inventing your own undertakings, you’d speak according to your notion. Words of the Buddha from the Atthakavagga

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Seeking their own happiness by imposing suffering on others, living intimate with enmity, they’re not freed from enmity. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When we live with integrity, we further enhance intimacy with ourselves by being able to rejoice, taking active delight in our activity. Sharon Salzburg's Lovingkindness

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain. What is the way out of this? Spiritual practice, by uprooting our personal mythologies of isolation, uncovers the radiant, joyful heart." Sharon Salzberg - Lovingkindness

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KUNA @yurrpost.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

experience doesn't always mean wisdom, and innovation doesn't always mean progress

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If sentient beings only knew how great is the fruit of giving and sharing as taught by the great seer! Rid of the stain of stinginess, with clear and confident heart, they would duly give to the noble ones, where a gift is very fruitful. The words of the Buddha from the Itivuttaka

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“When overcome by disdain beings go to a bad place. Having rightly understood that disdain, the discerning give it up. Once they’ve given it up, they never return to this world.” The words of the Buddha from the Itivuttaka

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

From a heap of trash discarded on the highway, a lotus might blossom, fragrant and delightful. So too, among those thought of as trash, a disciple of the perfect Buddha outshines with their wisdom, the blind ordinary folk. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thinking the inessential is essential, seeing the essential as inessential; they don’t realize the essential, for wrong thoughts are their habitat. Having known the essential as essential, and the inessential as inessential; they realize the essential, for right thoughts are their habitat. Buddha

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A liar goes to hell, as does one who denies what they did. Both are equal in the hereafter, those men of base deeds. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself; it is more universal, more contagious, more dangerous. A SILENT justification, it makes possible an evil erupting as an exception becoming the rule and being in turn accepted. Abraham J. Heschel - The Prophets Vol. II

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

One accomplished in virtue and vision, firmly principled, and truthful, doing oneself what ought be done: that’s who the people love. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

When a person, spurning the hereafter,transgresses in just one thing— lying— there is no evil they would not do. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Just Dharma @justdharma.org · 09/07/2026

Not be seen again ~ Shantideva justdharma.org/not-be-seen-again-sh…

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

He who once was heedless, but turned to heedfulness, lights up the world like the moon freed from clouds. Someone whose bad deed is supplanted by the good, lights up the world, like the moon freed from clouds. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Unashamed of what is shameful, ashamed of what is not shameful; beings who uphold wrong view go to a bad place. Seeing danger where there is none, and blind to the actual danger, beings who uphold wrong view go to a bad place. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The fragrance of flowers doesn’t spread upwind, nor sandalwood, pinwheel, or jasmine; but the fragrance of the good spreads upwind; a true person’s virtue spreads in every direction. Among all the fragrances— sandalwood or pinwheel or lotus or jasmine— the fragrance of virtue is supreme. Buddha

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In a perfectly still and crystal-clear pool of water, we can see everything with clarity. The heart at complete rest is still. When the heart is still, wisdom appears easily, fluently. When wisdom flows, clear understanding follows. Mae Chee Ķaew - buddhist nun

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

For never is hatred laid to rest by hate, it’s laid to rest by love: this is an ancient teaching. When others do not understand, let us, who do understand this, restrain ourselves in this regard; for that is how conflicts are laid to rest. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“Let both layfolk and renunciants think the work was done by me alone. In anything at all that’s to be done, let them fall under my sway alone.” So thinks the fool, their greed and pride only growing. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

From meditation springs wisdom, without meditation, wisdom ends. Knowing these two paths— of progress and decline— you should conduct yourself so that wisdom grows. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Abandon anger, abandoned pride! Leave all obstacles far behind. Unattracted to what has name and form, you will not sink into sorrow. Overcome anger with good nature; overcome evil with goodness; overcome greed with giving and overcome lies with the truth. The words of the Buddha from Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It’s easy to do bad things harmful to oneself, but good things that are helpful are the hardest things to do. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

In this city built of bones, plastered with flesh and blood, old age and death are stashed away, along with conceit and contempt. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Better to live a single day seeing rise and fall than to live a hundred years blind to rise and fall. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Just like a glorious flower that’s colorful but lacks fragrance; eloquent speech is fruitless for one who does not act on it. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The goodness of others is their own. We cannot share the fruits of their actions, we must do good deeds ourselves. Mae Chee Kaew - Buddhist nun

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

From a heap of trash discarded on the highway, a lotus might blossom, fragrant and delightful. So too, among those thought of as trash, a disciple of the perfect Buddha outshines with their wisdom the blind ordinary folk. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Buddhism Now @buddhismnow.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Buddhist practice: Classic of Spiritual Flight. In dealing with others, fairness is paramount; in self-reflection, sincerity is crucial. wp.me/pFy3u-93o.

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Classic of Spiritual Flight.

In dealing with others, fairness is paramount; in self-reflection, sincerity is crucial.

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A gentleman should serve his friends and colleagues. . . in five ways: giving, kindly words, taking care, equality, and not using tricky words. The words of the Buddha from the Long Discourses.

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

One accomplished in virtue and vision, firmly principled, and truthful, doing oneself what ought be done: that’s who the people love. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Vonnegut is one of my favorite writers but my god, can you imagine being married to this man, just exhausting

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It’d be better for the immoral and unrestrained to eat an iron ball, scorching, like a burning flame, than to eat the nation’s alms. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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Buddhism Now @buddhismnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Buddhist practice: Lots of people like you have downloaded this easy-to-follow guide to Buddhist walking meditation wp.me/pFy3u-q3.

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Walking Meditation

Walking is a wonderful way of meditating. It brings one to the point of realising that meditation does not depend upon the position of the body…

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Gerry B. Girouard @gerryg234.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The miserly don’t ascend to heaven, it takes a fool to not praise giving. The attentive celebrate giving, and so find happiness in the hereafter. The words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada

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