By accepting your situation and wanting to be there…
By accepting where you are, temporarily, as a starting position, and wanting to be there, you gain the ability to[…]
Read moreBy accepting where you are, temporarily, as a starting position, and wanting to be there, you gain the ability to[…]
Read moreThree ways I know of to motivate yourself are sublimated anger, sublimated sadness, and flowing from faith. To sublimate anger:[…]
Read moreStep one: Know the proper time, do not be a burden. Step two: establish humbleness. Step three: Reduce obstinacy to[…]
Read moreThe hindrance of restlessness and anxiety is fed by frequent improper attention to unsettled mind states. To discourage that look[…]
Read moreIn MN 61, The Buddha instructs us to regard mental acts that we have done That led to harm for[…]
Read moreContentment is a muscle, actually it’s a system of muscles like your back. But this muscle produces thoughts. Strangely enough,[…]
Read moreI once heard a song lyric that went “I’m gonna let my yearning shine”. I thought it seemed like a[…]
Read moreIll will is one of the 5 hindrances to clear thought described by the Buddha. In SN 46.51, the Buddha[…]
Read moreI would like to speak in praise of dispassion for grasping and clinging. And what grasping am I speaking of?[…]
Read moreWhen you blame yourself, rightly or wrongly, You use a perception neural net aimed at the member of your mental[…]
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