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Life tips
lobster
Crusty Veteran
As we know life tips.
What have we learned and can share?
Nobody cares?
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/the-top-10-life-tips-that-we-should-be-informed-about.html
Love is all there is?
https://highexistence.com/life-secrets-and-tips/
Wait ... too much already ... ?
https://www.inc.com/lolly-daskal/25-excellent-pieces-of-advice-that-most-people-ignore.html
All I wanted was how to make great soup with leftovers. The everyday essentials ...
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/5-easy-ways-make-soup-leftovers-0
ah ha ... hot water in the bird bath during winter cold ... now we are talking
https://newbuddhist.com/discussion/comment/561069/#Comment_561069
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A good idea @lobster let’s collect new buddhist’s officially sanctioned life tips.
Breathe.
Ah ha!
Iz masterplan!
I try and breathe consciously every day. Methods include:
https://fiveseasonsmedicine.com/3-breathing-techniques-for-qigong-practitioners/
I bow before the wisdom of the crustacean sensation.
Not bad for a lobster. Do they even have lungs?
I've learned over the past year to stand my ground against misgiving, irrationality, anything that disturbs my peace -- which isn't to be had in a perfect place but is a diamond in the rough. I've learned to take the moment as is and not fret about useless things. I've also learned to be determined and not take no for an answer. I've taken that single mindedness of purpose I used to use for addictive purposes to spiritual ends. I have learned to back away from the endless maze of the mind. I have learned that I will never stop from learning, but need not cling to it.
Those are some things, anyway.
I rather like @Kerome tips
I try and follow all the essential precepts and break all the non essential or silly ones.
Extreme precepts:
Broken rulez:
Thanks Mara, you are The Buddha
Don't begrudge ageing. Some people never achieve that privilege.
A thought, is only a thought. And a thought can be changed.
Practice makes perfect...and perfect practice makes perfect practice
@Shoshin1 I have been practicing being imperfect. So far a perfect score …
All things arise, and all things cease. Impermanence makes all things possible.
How is permanency made possible by impermenance @Kerome 😵💫
To observe a streaming river one must have somewhere to stand. But it’s only relatively permanent, a little more permanent than the waters. That is all the permanency we get.
The self can't always be trusted...
At the start of the pandemic in my city, when churches and temples closed their doors, our Lama started giving lessons and holding pujas over Zoom.
One of the things he said, while talking about coping with the pandemic, is also a very good summary of how to approach life -- especially for Buddhists, who are working on learning to accept and relax in difficult situations:
"It makes no sense to worry about things you can change.
And it makes no sense to worry about things you cannot change."
I knew it! Soon we will not trust the un-self, the emptiness/stillness or even the permanently impermanent.
As I said to the Buddha only this morning, ‘Have a nice day … oh wait no worries, you can't!’
Only one of us laughed.
Tips given and passed on:
Take life seriously, but don't take yourself quite so sriously.
Laugh often, laugh loudly, laugh softly, but laugh
Do unto others. But check for witnesses first
GET UP!
The only thing that doesn't change is that everything changes.
More life tips…
I love wild flowers.
We have a no grass cutting in May policy on our local common (ex grazing land). Encourages some great flowers.
My garden borage which the bees love is getting a bit out of hand but I enjoy listening to/watching the bees.
I was intrigued by @how zero nitrogen garden.
Gardening tips.