Planning...
“People in the West are always getting ready to live.” - Chinese Proverb
The future is made up of only one element -- the present. The only way to prepare for the future is to take care of the present.
Renounce your Attachment
Usually, after you’ve obtained the object of your desire - your desire does not end - it simply shifts to the next object. You will always find yourself unsatisfied and in search of something new. I think Aitken Roshi put it best:
“Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.” - Robert Aitken Roshi
Accept the Damage
We allow the seeds of anger to rise from our subconscious. We should learn to practice mindfulness when we feel angry and surround the seed of anger with thought, reflection, and patience. We should learn to see that the seed of anger is in us. This seed is not placed in us by another person.
We should learn to accept the damage caused by another person the way we accept a natural disaster. We cannot control other people no more than we can control a natural disaster. We can, however, control the way we react to it.
I am
"No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth." - Lao Tzu
Belief
"Do not believe in
anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is
spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found
in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of
your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been
handed down for generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find
that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to
the good and benefit of one and all,
then accept it and live up to
it."
- The Buddha
Thank you to those of you have written me and inspired my return to this blog.