Bodhi Leaves - Offerings and Reflections from the Buddhist West

Monday, September 8, 2008

Talk the Walk and Walk the Talk

There's a famous Sanskrit saying which goes:

यथा चित्तं तथा वाचा
यथा वाचा तथा क्रिया
चित्ते वाचि क्रियायां
महतां एक्रूपता


yathaa chittan tathaa vaachaa
yathaa vaachaa tathaa kriyaa
chitte vaachi kriyaayaan
mahataan ekroopataa

"As is their thinking, so is their speech,
As is their speech, so is their action.
In the thinking, speech, and actions,
Of the great ones there is oneness".

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