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Re: Buddhist quotes
“Those who easily believe others are said by the Buddha to be foolish.”
— Ajahn Chah
Jeroen
Re: Craving For Food
That sounds very positive, @person. It’s interesting how a bad experience — feeling ill — can also have good sides when you are observant. I have also been looking at my relationship to food. I have been listening to the body more, lately. And part of that has been not eating when I do not feel hungry. I’ve been eating one meal a day some days, other days skipping dinner.
I found it surprising how little food we actually need. Three square meals a day seems like an excess to me now, maybe a farmhand or a manual labourer might need that.
Jeroen
Re: What we are doing right?
Even the best of us have those times when we find the little gremlin has picked the lock and run out to break dishes, overturn teacups and generally create mischief and mayhem. Eventually, we are able to get our gremlin, kicking and screaming, by the scruff of the neck and toss it back into it's cage, slam the door shut and put a new lock on the door. Then we return to trying to develop our mercy and compassion - until the next time. And there will continue to be next times until we eventually get it right (maybe).
But that is just part of life, of living. After all, the gremlin and the Bodhisattva are one and the same.
Don't kick yourself when you trip or fall or momentarily step "off the path". Just get back up, reset your feet, step back on the path and move ahead. You have just learned one more way not to screw up and one more way to recover.
Welcome to the life of a Human Being.
Peace to all
Lionduck
Re: What we are doing right?
What we are doing right?
I laugh a lot, because in my daily life I find that there are always things to laugh about...And when I'm serious, I'm serious, because there are things/situations which require some seriousness ...but not too much seriousness as this can be detrimental to ones health and well being...
Many moons ago a Buddhist friend who lives in Europe told me what her Dharma once told her group/Sangha "Beware of unhappy Buddhists...They are not really practicing, just being intellectual "
Which also reminds me of this:
The Dharma.
Shoshin1