Dhammapada 328-329

Basic human need

“It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness. The so-called happiness that one experiences by having money, power, and indulging in sensual pleasures is not real happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting. For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy at the surface level of the mind prove futile.”
~ S.N.Goenka.

11 Steps Toward Daily Mindfulness

Zindel Segal offers 11 ways to slow down and increase focus throughout 
the day so you don't get tripped up by the same old mental ruts. By ZindelSegal | June 1, 2016

By becoming more aware of our thoughts, feelings, and body sensations, from moment to moment, we give ourselves the possibility of greater freedom and choice; we do not have to go down the same old “mental ruts”  that may have caused problems in the past.

AN 7.74 (A IV 137)

"'Just as a dewdrop on the tip of a blade of grass quickly vanishes with the rising of the sun and does not stay long, in the same way, brahmans, the life of human beings is like a dewdrop — limited, trifling, of much stress & many despairs." 

Four Indonesians jailed over IS-linked terror plot to blow up Buddhist temple

Police officers react near the site of a blast in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 14, 2016. PHOTO: Reuters

JAKARTA – An Indonesian bomb-maker inspired by an Islamic State extremist was sentenced Wednesday (June 15) to five years in prison for plotting to blow up a Buddhist temple on Java island.

Pathama mitta macca sutta, SN 55.16

"Those for whom you have sympathy, those with whom you communicate - your friends, intimates, kinsmen and relations - all should be told about, grounded in, established in the Four Limbs of Stream-Winning. What are these four? Faith in the Buddha, faith in the Dhamma, faith in the Sangha, and virtue that is dear to the Noble Ones and conducive to concentration of mind."

Keanu Reeves Gets Temporarily Ordained In Tibetan Himalayas

18 June 2016

"Focus on the now and you will never have to rush anything. Too many people don’t realize the power of the present time by spending it everywhere but in the present moment."