09/09/2025
Truth! 🙏🏻🦋💫🤗🥰💫💫🍁🇨🇦
At the heart of the Buddha's teachings are the "brahma vihara," 4 states of consciousness that open our hearts and transform our minds, spreading peace, love and joy out into the world...
1. LOVING KINDNESS (acting kindly, not hurting others).
2. COMPASSION (empathy for other's feelings, try to understand the perspective of others).
3. UNSELFISH JOY (sharing joy with others, being grateful).
4. TRANQUILITY (taking responsibility for calming our emotions, having daily practices to cultivate a peaceful mind).
Buddha said that understanding and mastering these 4 states of consciousness is the key to peace, love, happiness and social harmony. Each alone has great power, the four practiced together generate a kind of spiritual alchemy, opening our heart, transforming our minds and brightening the lives of everyone around us...
~ Christopher::
Fukuoka, Japan