Buddhism in daily life - Mindfulness in every day tasks Archiv
364 Episoden
6 Minuten
Empty phrases
Everywhere you read standard phrases, everything possible would be soooooo important, but these are lip service, the truth usually looks quite different.
Whoever believes it is betrayed, word shells sometimes hurt almost as much as bullet casings.
People wait for things that rarely come, that do not often come true. Words without deeds are like thunder without rain, lonely and meaningless.
Where has the common sense gone, the situation is heavy as lead, the life laborious and hard, because the knowledge of the circumstances causes pain to those who let themselves be bent too much, are no longer themselves, live haunted by psychoses at the bottom of a well.
The complicated circumstances make mental difficulties, more and more people are mentally disturbed, suffer from their shadows, are at least impaired.
Who am I? This question is more and more pushed away, numbed, postponed.
To look behind the empty words requires strength, because here remains in reality only a big nothing, a nothing of a nothing, the atom in a grain of sand on the beach of somewhere. We take ourselves too important, nevertheless always want to increase our own insignificance.
The camps face each other irreconcilably, man is little human. Where is reason and truth, virtues and goodness. It has become a lonely world, the teaching of Buddha then gives support to the seekers. Even "humanity" is only an empty word, like the animals the brother beats the brother's skull in, if it must be also without reason.
No matter how much blood sticks to something, the progress of the "own" cause justifies the "well-meaning" for every outrage. If it is for the "good" cause, then "that fits" already, is just.
Wherever honesty must give way to the good cause, the matter becomes difficult. Rarely has mankind experienced so little faith, the social cohesion of spiritual confessions has ended, world views have suddenly become unimportant, times have changed.
To think about word shells, that is a pointless endeavor. But there are very many people who cling to these precepts, simply because thinking about them would be too painful, would confuse them, would shake their foundations and would pull them into the abyss.
When you come across empty words, try to look behind what is being said, what is the real intention, why is this being said right now, how could things be connected?
According to Buddha, we should question everything, take nothing for granted, form our opinion NEW to every incident, which excludes prejudices, and also empty words.
The way is the goal!
A sweet word often refreshes more than water and shadow.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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Everywhere you read standard phrases, everything possible would be soooooo important, but these are lip service, the truth usually looks quite different.
Whoever believes it is betrayed, word shells sometimes hurt almost as much as bullet casings.
People wait for things that rarely come, that do not often come true. Words without deeds are like thunder without rain, lonely and meaningless.
Where has the common sense gone, the situation is heavy as lead, the life laborious and hard, because the knowledge of the circumstances causes pain to those who let themselves be bent too much, are no longer themselves, live haunted by psychoses at the bottom of a well.
The complicated circumstances make mental difficulties, more and more people are mentally disturbed, suffer from their shadows, are at least impaired.
Who am I? This question is more and more pushed away, numbed, postponed.
To look behind the empty words requires strength, because here remains in reality only a big nothing, a nothing of a nothing, the atom in a grain of sand on the beach of somewhere. We take ourselves too important, nevertheless always want to increase our own insignificance.
The camps face each other irreconcilably, man is little human. Where is reason and truth, virtues and goodness. It has become a lonely world, the teaching of Buddha then gives support to the seekers. Even "humanity" is only an empty word, like the animals the brother beats the brother's skull in, if it must be also without reason.
No matter how much blood sticks to something, the progress of the "own" cause justifies the "well-meaning" for every outrage. If it is for the "good" cause, then "that fits" already, is just.
Wherever honesty must give way to the good cause, the matter becomes difficult. Rarely has mankind experienced so little faith, the social cohesion of spiritual confessions has ended, world views have suddenly become unimportant, times have changed.
To think about word shells, that is a pointless endeavor. But there are very many people who cling to these precepts, simply because thinking about them would be too painful, would confuse them, would shake their foundations and would pull them into the abyss.
When you come across empty words, try to look behind what is being said, what is the real intention, why is this being said right now, how could things be connected?
According to Buddha, we should question everything, take nothing for granted, form our opinion NEW to every incident, which excludes prejudices, and also empty words.
The way is the goal!
A sweet word often refreshes more than water and shadow.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
Pathological mental attitude
Two people stand next to each other and look at the rose bush, one says "beautiful", the other hates roses. Life is hard, harmony is not the standard.
But what is sick, what is "still" normal, and does "normal" even exist?
Rational arguments are no longer accepted anywhere, the self-imposed insanity goes into the next round, will dissenters soon be burned alive again in the marketplace?
Madness has afflicted many brains, the constant threat situations have left depressed egomaniacs, psychologically disturbed, with burnout. Buddha said that exactly this ego mostly causes the problems.
Already ancient Rome perished from its arrogance, it seems to be related to the ego, over the centuries, an up and down of cultures, the human component just.
Pathological mental attitudes have arisen, the quirks become more and stronger, Buddha admonished again and again not to fall for the ego. The little man on the shoulder who spouts this nonsense, who wants to talk us into all kinds of things.
Doubts and worries come from the thought palace, the mind is just heavy, the view is fickle. Man is a strange animal.
Now the confused brains are again increasingly sedated with pills, happiness lies in the pills that the gods (in white) send to the faithful. The causes of the morbid mental attitudes are of course not discussed aloud, the uptight society hinders itself.
According to Buddha, the causes of mental illnesses are often to be found in the disturbed ego; people have been making their own problems for thousands of years. The philosophy of the great teacher aims to get such escapades of mental activities under control, to take away the space of insanity, to bring back calmness and peace into existence.
The medial excesses of the last years have harmed many people very much, the society gets sick, comes only with difficulty from the global problems to personal experiences, the collective worries constantly, according to the teacher of all teachers, however, we should just not "make head", but accept the life as it is.
To get out of the cycle of mental illnesses requires a clear decision. Do I want to keep my mind healthy? What do I have to do for it? What changes are necessary? Because behind the facade, not everything is vain bliss and sunshine, life is just the way it is, we have to accept the circumstances.
No man is an island, of course we humans are also dependent on influences, but "we must" deal with it in such a way that our mental health does not suffer.
Because also spiritually seen the way is the goal!
I am purified in my spiritual behavior
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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Two people stand next to each other and look at the rose bush, one says "beautiful", the other hates roses. Life is hard, harmony is not the standard.
But what is sick, what is "still" normal, and does "normal" even exist?
Rational arguments are no longer accepted anywhere, the self-imposed insanity goes into the next round, will dissenters soon be burned alive again in the marketplace?
Madness has afflicted many brains, the constant threat situations have left depressed egomaniacs, psychologically disturbed, with burnout. Buddha said that exactly this ego mostly causes the problems.
Already ancient Rome perished from its arrogance, it seems to be related to the ego, over the centuries, an up and down of cultures, the human component just.
Pathological mental attitudes have arisen, the quirks become more and stronger, Buddha admonished again and again not to fall for the ego. The little man on the shoulder who spouts this nonsense, who wants to talk us into all kinds of things.
Doubts and worries come from the thought palace, the mind is just heavy, the view is fickle. Man is a strange animal.
Now the confused brains are again increasingly sedated with pills, happiness lies in the pills that the gods (in white) send to the faithful. The causes of the morbid mental attitudes are of course not discussed aloud, the uptight society hinders itself.
According to Buddha, the causes of mental illnesses are often to be found in the disturbed ego; people have been making their own problems for thousands of years. The philosophy of the great teacher aims to get such escapades of mental activities under control, to take away the space of insanity, to bring back calmness and peace into existence.
The medial excesses of the last years have harmed many people very much, the society gets sick, comes only with difficulty from the global problems to personal experiences, the collective worries constantly, according to the teacher of all teachers, however, we should just not "make head", but accept the life as it is.
To get out of the cycle of mental illnesses requires a clear decision. Do I want to keep my mind healthy? What do I have to do for it? What changes are necessary? Because behind the facade, not everything is vain bliss and sunshine, life is just the way it is, we have to accept the circumstances.
No man is an island, of course we humans are also dependent on influences, but "we must" deal with it in such a way that our mental health does not suffer.
Because also spiritually seen the way is the goal!
I am purified in my spiritual behavior
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
Tomorrow is another day
Rarely we think about the consequences of our actions, mostly we live in the day, make ourselves "thoughts" about the things, people and events, but live thereby just not in the NOW and HERE, but in the past, in the future, in our illusions.
In Asia people also eat insects, one day then the insects eat the people (when they are dead), everything is in motion, nothing is constant, the central element in evolution is transience, no one will stay, all will go again, the karma is the fixed size, but we can grow on us, build up better karma. Like the cards in the card game we get our destiny allotted, but which cards we play when, that is up to us, so we can just "play along" in the game of life.
Big animals eat the smaller ones, but when life comes to an end, the small animal eats the big carcass, life goes into a new round. From a tree "one" can make millions of matches, with only one match then light the whole forest, small is not always small, large is not always large, everything has its time.
What seems small today, is huge tomorrow at one stroke, a few days later then small again, life is a coming and going.
That's why Buddha taught his followers not to evaluate, because an evaluation is always created from the respective filters, which we hold in front of our eyes, because otherwise we don't believe to be able to cope with the complex connections, which in the end is also only an evaluation, so it must be subject to change.
Today we are strong and powerful, rich and healthy, tomorrow the tide has turned completely, a "little thing" has thrown us off track, nothing is as it was. Humility helps here, and the philosophy of the teacher of all teachers, I cannot give any other advice.
Make yourself aware of these connections every morning before you leave the house. For this purpose I have hung a Post-It on the inside of the door to remind me to leave my pride and haughtiness within my own four walls, not to drag these "bad" human qualities with me. Just as Buddha taught.
Tomorrow is another day, it is not at all sure whether we will wake up, whether our loved ones will be with us, whether everything will be like "always", or completely different, not even the wind knows. Don't take anything for granted, don't put yourself in a false sense of security, nothing is guaranteed.
For example, if you sit at the dentist and hope that time will pass quickly, well, one day all your time will have passed, act accordingly. The teachings of Buddha can be a support that leads to enlightenment.
The way must be the goal!
In the morning he dwells in the state in which he wants to dwell in the morning
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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Rarely we think about the consequences of our actions, mostly we live in the day, make ourselves "thoughts" about the things, people and events, but live thereby just not in the NOW and HERE, but in the past, in the future, in our illusions.
In Asia people also eat insects, one day then the insects eat the people (when they are dead), everything is in motion, nothing is constant, the central element in evolution is transience, no one will stay, all will go again, the karma is the fixed size, but we can grow on us, build up better karma. Like the cards in the card game we get our destiny allotted, but which cards we play when, that is up to us, so we can just "play along" in the game of life.
Big animals eat the smaller ones, but when life comes to an end, the small animal eats the big carcass, life goes into a new round. From a tree "one" can make millions of matches, with only one match then light the whole forest, small is not always small, large is not always large, everything has its time.
What seems small today, is huge tomorrow at one stroke, a few days later then small again, life is a coming and going.
That's why Buddha taught his followers not to evaluate, because an evaluation is always created from the respective filters, which we hold in front of our eyes, because otherwise we don't believe to be able to cope with the complex connections, which in the end is also only an evaluation, so it must be subject to change.
Today we are strong and powerful, rich and healthy, tomorrow the tide has turned completely, a "little thing" has thrown us off track, nothing is as it was. Humility helps here, and the philosophy of the teacher of all teachers, I cannot give any other advice.
Make yourself aware of these connections every morning before you leave the house. For this purpose I have hung a Post-It on the inside of the door to remind me to leave my pride and haughtiness within my own four walls, not to drag these "bad" human qualities with me. Just as Buddha taught.
Tomorrow is another day, it is not at all sure whether we will wake up, whether our loved ones will be with us, whether everything will be like "always", or completely different, not even the wind knows. Don't take anything for granted, don't put yourself in a false sense of security, nothing is guaranteed.
For example, if you sit at the dentist and hope that time will pass quickly, well, one day all your time will have passed, act accordingly. The teachings of Buddha can be a support that leads to enlightenment.
The way must be the goal!
In the morning he dwells in the state in which he wants to dwell in the morning
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
Let go part 2
The king stretched out his hands, in his fist his wonderful diamond, worth a kingdom, he opened his hand, offered the stone to the friendly looking teacher.
Buddha said, "Let go!"
Let go of the diamond, why? The renewed "let go" shook him out of his thoughts, why? He looked into the face of the other person, who obviously meant it. He let go, the treasure fell to the ground, the sound hurt the king.
Buddha said again, "Let go!"
Now he was puzzled, he had nothing left in his hands, what should he let go? He looked indecisive, then he heard for the third time : "Let go!"
"What should I let go of, master?"
"Your ego. The posturing of being a king, the way of acting, speaking, playing, taking a role."
Then the king understood, all the questions found answers at the same time, the veil lifted, Buddha healed the ruler of his ego.
You want to let go? Then do it, "let go", you can do it with a decision, comparable to smoking, "you" start, "you" stop, because "you" want it, have decided so.
Suppose that from now on you could "get a grip" on your pride, your selfishness, negative characteristics? That would be possible just by a decision at any time.
We live without understanding, because we have lost our instincts, but they are still deeply rooted qualities in us. The one among us who foresees the emerging, new epochs, sobering, but without shaking. No matter how it may come, deep within us are stored collective events that can at least be tapped, the swarm intelligence, that makes humanity special. We will find a way, evolution has always been a struggle, the small against the big tree, the young fish against the old, misery against misery!
Deep in us is something, which makes us put up the statues of Buddha everywhere, without having the slightest idea, what this teacher actually said and meant, why his basic idea (enlightenment) is nevertheless so widespread. Or in any case, what the present considers to be his philosophy. Few dare to read the old texts, which seem to be completely out of time in language and writing.
Whatever, free yourself from roles and constraints, live yourself, try to open up to your karma!
Only the way can be the goal!
I will breathe in while contemplating my letting go
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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The king stretched out his hands, in his fist his wonderful diamond, worth a kingdom, he opened his hand, offered the stone to the friendly looking teacher.
Buddha said, "Let go!"
Let go of the diamond, why? The renewed "let go" shook him out of his thoughts, why? He looked into the face of the other person, who obviously meant it. He let go, the treasure fell to the ground, the sound hurt the king.
Buddha said again, "Let go!"
Now he was puzzled, he had nothing left in his hands, what should he let go? He looked indecisive, then he heard for the third time : "Let go!"
"What should I let go of, master?"
"Your ego. The posturing of being a king, the way of acting, speaking, playing, taking a role."
Then the king understood, all the questions found answers at the same time, the veil lifted, Buddha healed the ruler of his ego.
You want to let go? Then do it, "let go", you can do it with a decision, comparable to smoking, "you" start, "you" stop, because "you" want it, have decided so.
Suppose that from now on you could "get a grip" on your pride, your selfishness, negative characteristics? That would be possible just by a decision at any time.
We live without understanding, because we have lost our instincts, but they are still deeply rooted qualities in us. The one among us who foresees the emerging, new epochs, sobering, but without shaking. No matter how it may come, deep within us are stored collective events that can at least be tapped, the swarm intelligence, that makes humanity special. We will find a way, evolution has always been a struggle, the small against the big tree, the young fish against the old, misery against misery!
Deep in us is something, which makes us put up the statues of Buddha everywhere, without having the slightest idea, what this teacher actually said and meant, why his basic idea (enlightenment) is nevertheless so widespread. Or in any case, what the present considers to be his philosophy. Few dare to read the old texts, which seem to be completely out of time in language and writing.
Whatever, free yourself from roles and constraints, live yourself, try to open up to your karma!
Only the way can be the goal!
I will breathe in while contemplating my letting go
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
Let go
There is a very beautiful story about Buddha, which has a lot of depth, shows enormous wisdom, which can even be called directional.
A powerful king heard from his wife more and more frequently that she would follow a monk, a simple itinerant preacher, of whom there were endless numbers at that time. This one would be different from the other spiritual men, the woman told him, the gods would be in league with the man. All power would flow from him, although he would be completely at rest within himself. The king became curious and let his wife tell him more about the new philosophy. She told him that the teacher had once been a prince, had taken to asceticism, had given up the riches of this world to wander the lands as a preacher, where he spoke of the enlightenment that any man could attain.
In the religious world of that time, the Buddha's statements were new and interesting, and the king decided to visit the holy man. Before leaving, he went to his treasury, where he kept his most precious possession, a pink diamond. He took it with him to make a gift of it to the Buddha.
He traveled through the countryside of that time, he had as a king a troop, soldiers and noblemen accompanied him, he lacked nothing on the arduous roads. After many days, the royal troop reached the camp of the great teacher, where he had settled down in the shade of a grove together with countless monks.
In a moment the king wanted to meet the Buddha, on the way here he had heard incredible stories about the former prince, compassion and a deep peace filled him since he had set out. He made his way with his confidants to the camp of the preacher, who was resting somewhat elevated. He was already old, the many journeys had cost him his strength, he seemed calm and concentrated, a special mood lay over the meeting. The king approached the wise man, who quickly looked at him. The moment was so special that the king fell on his knees, he folded his hands, stretched them to the camp, he was suddenly struck by an inner peace that he could not explain.
The Buddha was still silent, the monks and followers around the two waited patiently, the two men eyed each other, the king noticed the kindness in the teacher's face, the whole audience in the shady grove was amazed at the energy between the two men.
In the next days the story continues.
The way is the goal!
Letting go and rejecting every desire
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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There is a very beautiful story about Buddha, which has a lot of depth, shows enormous wisdom, which can even be called directional.
A powerful king heard from his wife more and more frequently that she would follow a monk, a simple itinerant preacher, of whom there were endless numbers at that time. This one would be different from the other spiritual men, the woman told him, the gods would be in league with the man. All power would flow from him, although he would be completely at rest within himself. The king became curious and let his wife tell him more about the new philosophy. She told him that the teacher had once been a prince, had taken to asceticism, had given up the riches of this world to wander the lands as a preacher, where he spoke of the enlightenment that any man could attain.
In the religious world of that time, the Buddha's statements were new and interesting, and the king decided to visit the holy man. Before leaving, he went to his treasury, where he kept his most precious possession, a pink diamond. He took it with him to make a gift of it to the Buddha.
He traveled through the countryside of that time, he had as a king a troop, soldiers and noblemen accompanied him, he lacked nothing on the arduous roads. After many days, the royal troop reached the camp of the great teacher, where he had settled down in the shade of a grove together with countless monks.
In a moment the king wanted to meet the Buddha, on the way here he had heard incredible stories about the former prince, compassion and a deep peace filled him since he had set out. He made his way with his confidants to the camp of the preacher, who was resting somewhat elevated. He was already old, the many journeys had cost him his strength, he seemed calm and concentrated, a special mood lay over the meeting. The king approached the wise man, who quickly looked at him. The moment was so special that the king fell on his knees, he folded his hands, stretched them to the camp, he was suddenly struck by an inner peace that he could not explain.
The Buddha was still silent, the monks and followers around the two waited patiently, the two men eyed each other, the king noticed the kindness in the teacher's face, the whole audience in the shady grove was amazed at the energy between the two men.
In the next days the story continues.
The way is the goal!
Letting go and rejecting every desire
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
Freedom of decision
At every crossroads we can decide, forward, backward, right or left; at the next crossroads again, then again, again and again.
Decisions are often not easy to make. And a not insignificant part of the people does not manage to decide at all.
Yes, we are free in our decisions, at least in theory. But in reality it is usually completely different, the daily showdown is subject to all kinds of constraints, we have to take into account the environment, conventions, the social system, feelings and opinions, necessities and existing conditions.
Are you in an unhappy partnership? Why do you stay in it?
The job is not fun? When will you look for a new one?
Your friends are annoying? Will you address it, or look for new ones?
You are too fat? Are you eating healthier now?
The apartment is too expensive? Can you bring yourself to get another one?
Even if we don't decide, there is always a decision involved, for example, if you don't look for a new job, then you have just decided on the old job. Or if you come to terms with your partnership, then you have decided against looking for a new partner. Do you continue to let your friends take advantage of you? Then this is also a decision, inactivity is also a decision. Through the silent selection process we eliminate the things and living beings that we do not CHOOSE, we consciously decide against it, just by remaining inactive.
Buddha spent a lot of time, research and considerable thought on the mind and states of mind. On the way to enlightenment we should "go within", look at the bottom of events, never just TAKE things, but question everything and everyone, not using prefabricated judgments (prejudices), but always deciding anew, at least as far as that goes.
And really everything is a decision, we are free to choose, everything we can decide anew, evaluate differently. Every day we can change our opinion, weigh the things and living beings differently, even the past we can see differently today than we did yesterday, because today we look at the past events with a different mind. Was this or that event really as bad then as I thought it was? Did it not make me the person I am today? Led me to this very place where I am right now? Was it not my karma?
The path is the goal!
I recognized in me the freedom from inertia
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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At every crossroads we can decide, forward, backward, right or left; at the next crossroads again, then again, again and again.
Decisions are often not easy to make. And a not insignificant part of the people does not manage to decide at all.
Yes, we are free in our decisions, at least in theory. But in reality it is usually completely different, the daily showdown is subject to all kinds of constraints, we have to take into account the environment, conventions, the social system, feelings and opinions, necessities and existing conditions.
Are you in an unhappy partnership? Why do you stay in it?
The job is not fun? When will you look for a new one?
Your friends are annoying? Will you address it, or look for new ones?
You are too fat? Are you eating healthier now?
The apartment is too expensive? Can you bring yourself to get another one?
Even if we don't decide, there is always a decision involved, for example, if you don't look for a new job, then you have just decided on the old job. Or if you come to terms with your partnership, then you have decided against looking for a new partner. Do you continue to let your friends take advantage of you? Then this is also a decision, inactivity is also a decision. Through the silent selection process we eliminate the things and living beings that we do not CHOOSE, we consciously decide against it, just by remaining inactive.
Buddha spent a lot of time, research and considerable thought on the mind and states of mind. On the way to enlightenment we should "go within", look at the bottom of events, never just TAKE things, but question everything and everyone, not using prefabricated judgments (prejudices), but always deciding anew, at least as far as that goes.
And really everything is a decision, we are free to choose, everything we can decide anew, evaluate differently. Every day we can change our opinion, weigh the things and living beings differently, even the past we can see differently today than we did yesterday, because today we look at the past events with a different mind. Was this or that event really as bad then as I thought it was? Did it not make me the person I am today? Led me to this very place where I am right now? Was it not my karma?
The path is the goal!
I recognized in me the freedom from inertia
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
The cycle of life
The birds eat the worms, after our death the worms eat us, life is a coming and going, it is a cycle.
According to Buddha, the cycle of rebirths is not limited to eating and being eaten, but to the continuation of the ego in its germ cell, which is thrown into incarnations until the bearer has worked off his karma, no longer needs to be reborn.
If one looks at the bustle on this planet, a food chain is unmistakable. The small ones are eaten by the bigger ones, which are then eaten again by even bigger animals, cruel and painful is the nature, a hard fight for survival plays out before our eyes.
The blackbirds on my balcony brought their young so many worms to eat, I had never seen anything like it. The beak full of creepy-crawlies, twisting and turning like little snakes, nothing helped, the blackbird parents stuffed masses of worms into the little birds, without mercy and indulgence the chicks were fed.
Then one day when the blackbirds will be old and fall from the branch, flocks of scavengers will pounce on the carcasses, the cycle of life goes on and on, there is no escape.
So it is with our spiritual being, we get so many opportunities to grow, to grow beyond ourselves. When we think about it like this, what do you think, is there perhaps a reason why we are in the world after all? Or are we just the food for future generations of worms?
Buddha lived a path for us that goes far beyond the usual patterns of thought. No subordination to an elitist class to be worshipped, no, an active thinking, acting, speaking and living, a way of the middle, towards personal enlightenment, that is his philosophy.
If you think about the cycle of life like this, the fate of human beings is hard and painful. Nothing will remain, everything will pass away, yes, heaven, it is waiting according to the monotheistic teachings, but only after death is the entrance to paradise possible. In Buddhism, we can enter Nirvana right now, because the said Nirvana is a state of mind that comes with tranquility and peace.
The teacher of all teachers has exemplified it to us; we can follow his path. What do we have to lose? Some time and effort, we can easily spare, the prospects of spiritual maturity are too tempting. Do you want to give it a chance?
The path is and remains my goal!
It is one and the same being which goes through the cycle of rebirths again and again
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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The birds eat the worms, after our death the worms eat us, life is a coming and going, it is a cycle.
According to Buddha, the cycle of rebirths is not limited to eating and being eaten, but to the continuation of the ego in its germ cell, which is thrown into incarnations until the bearer has worked off his karma, no longer needs to be reborn.
If one looks at the bustle on this planet, a food chain is unmistakable. The small ones are eaten by the bigger ones, which are then eaten again by even bigger animals, cruel and painful is the nature, a hard fight for survival plays out before our eyes.
The blackbirds on my balcony brought their young so many worms to eat, I had never seen anything like it. The beak full of creepy-crawlies, twisting and turning like little snakes, nothing helped, the blackbird parents stuffed masses of worms into the little birds, without mercy and indulgence the chicks were fed.
Then one day when the blackbirds will be old and fall from the branch, flocks of scavengers will pounce on the carcasses, the cycle of life goes on and on, there is no escape.
So it is with our spiritual being, we get so many opportunities to grow, to grow beyond ourselves. When we think about it like this, what do you think, is there perhaps a reason why we are in the world after all? Or are we just the food for future generations of worms?
Buddha lived a path for us that goes far beyond the usual patterns of thought. No subordination to an elitist class to be worshipped, no, an active thinking, acting, speaking and living, a way of the middle, towards personal enlightenment, that is his philosophy.
If you think about the cycle of life like this, the fate of human beings is hard and painful. Nothing will remain, everything will pass away, yes, heaven, it is waiting according to the monotheistic teachings, but only after death is the entrance to paradise possible. In Buddhism, we can enter Nirvana right now, because the said Nirvana is a state of mind that comes with tranquility and peace.
The teacher of all teachers has exemplified it to us; we can follow his path. What do we have to lose? Some time and effort, we can easily spare, the prospects of spiritual maturity are too tempting. Do you want to give it a chance?
The path is and remains my goal!
It is one and the same being which goes through the cycle of rebirths again and again
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
The food in the temple part 2
During my stays at Shaolin Temple, I became more and more comfortable with the vegetarian way of life at the monastery, even though I enjoyed trying all kinds of food at the restaurants in Dengfeng and Zhengzhou during my excursions on my days off. My favorite dish became Peking duck, which I still enjoy eating to this day.
Among Buddhists, there is the group of vegetarians (and of course the subgroup of vegans), which certainly makes up a large portion of the following. The controversy "meat" (and of course also fish) is partly bitterly led. During my stays in Southeast Asia (I lived in this part of the world for a total of almost 10 years), I noticed again and again that Thai, Cambodian and Vietnamese monks often consume meat and fish (and also like to drink a little), but Chinese monks usually live meatless, do not consume onion and garlic (which, according to them, are supposed to cause intoxicating feelings), unlike their Southeast Asian colleagues also live completely abstinent.
Chinese (Buddhist) monks adopted this type of diet early on from their Indian counterparts and have changed little about it to this day.
The fighting Shaolin monks are traditionally allowed to eat animal "products", because the training of Kung Fu in this special diet otherwise contains too little protein, which in turn (in combat) would be a distinct disadvantage, the human body is by evolution an omnivore, which includes meat and fish.
Buddha himself has demonstrably (also) consumed meat, at least this is described in the so-called Pali canon. Also in the rules of the mendicant monks meat is expressly permitted, further instructions (allegedly even from Buddha himself) in different writings hardly give restrictions for meat. In any case, killing a living being is not compatible with the path to enlightenment, but accepting a "share" is. As said, the Chinese way for monks was very early without meat and fish, a peculiarity that has been preserved until today.
Already during Buddha's lifetime, diet was an issue, excess and gluttony were vices that also affected monks. Thus, the great teacher ordered his followers to eat only until lunchtime, in order to counteract food addiction and obesity. Buddha himself was disciplined in your diet, ate little and fasted frequently.
In the Shaolin Temple in China, chants are often intoned before the meal to set the mood for the food. The usual vegetarian dishes are hardly seasoned, mostly steamed and not fried. There is always rice, even with noodles, and vegetables of all kinds are placed on top. According to tradition, monks in the temple (as far as possible) should not eat meat, because it would destroy the "seed" of compassion.
The way is the goal!
He who does not kill nor let kill, does not do violence nor let do violence, who is kind-minded against all beings, has no enmity to fear.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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During my stays at Shaolin Temple, I became more and more comfortable with the vegetarian way of life at the monastery, even though I enjoyed trying all kinds of food at the restaurants in Dengfeng and Zhengzhou during my excursions on my days off. My favorite dish became Peking duck, which I still enjoy eating to this day.
Among Buddhists, there is the group of vegetarians (and of course the subgroup of vegans), which certainly makes up a large portion of the following. The controversy "meat" (and of course also fish) is partly bitterly led. During my stays in Southeast Asia (I lived in this part of the world for a total of almost 10 years), I noticed again and again that Thai, Cambodian and Vietnamese monks often consume meat and fish (and also like to drink a little), but Chinese monks usually live meatless, do not consume onion and garlic (which, according to them, are supposed to cause intoxicating feelings), unlike their Southeast Asian colleagues also live completely abstinent.
Chinese (Buddhist) monks adopted this type of diet early on from their Indian counterparts and have changed little about it to this day.
The fighting Shaolin monks are traditionally allowed to eat animal "products", because the training of Kung Fu in this special diet otherwise contains too little protein, which in turn (in combat) would be a distinct disadvantage, the human body is by evolution an omnivore, which includes meat and fish.
Buddha himself has demonstrably (also) consumed meat, at least this is described in the so-called Pali canon. Also in the rules of the mendicant monks meat is expressly permitted, further instructions (allegedly even from Buddha himself) in different writings hardly give restrictions for meat. In any case, killing a living being is not compatible with the path to enlightenment, but accepting a "share" is. As said, the Chinese way for monks was very early without meat and fish, a peculiarity that has been preserved until today.
Already during Buddha's lifetime, diet was an issue, excess and gluttony were vices that also affected monks. Thus, the great teacher ordered his followers to eat only until lunchtime, in order to counteract food addiction and obesity. Buddha himself was disciplined in your diet, ate little and fasted frequently.
In the Shaolin Temple in China, chants are often intoned before the meal to set the mood for the food. The usual vegetarian dishes are hardly seasoned, mostly steamed and not fried. There is always rice, even with noodles, and vegetables of all kinds are placed on top. According to tradition, monks in the temple (as far as possible) should not eat meat, because it would destroy the "seed" of compassion.
The way is the goal!
He who does not kill nor let kill, does not do violence nor let do violence, who is kind-minded against all beings, has no enmity to fear.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
Willpower
It is such a thing with the will, it sometimes develops unbelievable forces. Although according to the great teacher we should not want anything, in daily life we more often fall back into our learned behaviors.
It makes an incredible difference whether we perform our daily tasks and accomplishments with friends or with reluctance. A circumstance that is important only to us, perhaps of little importance to our immediate surroundings, but the rest of the world has no interest in how we feel.
How do I want to approach things, my job, my duties, my life? Do I want to want, or do I not want to want?
Whoever "wants" will live a beautiful life, effortlessly walking the steps of the day. But if you don't "want" to, you will feel uncomfortable, trudge effortfully through time.
We distinguish things and people according to whether we "want" them or not. Depending on how our decision turns out, only what we want we will do "gladly", what we do not "want" we will try to avoid, to procrastinate, to sit out. According to Buddha, we should not want anything, because it is the wanting that creates our suffering. If you don't want anything, you don't want anything, you take what comes, you won't be disappointed if it doesn't come as you "wanted".
But who is also forced to do what he does not "want", for example because it "must be", he has arrived in his mental prison, in which he has put himself.
Suppose you would do the same action again, but this time "want" to do it, then everything would be the same, except you, the approach would be completely different, otherwise nothing would change at all. What was so difficult for you before, now would be easier "off your hand", that is the only difference.
No human being has to deal only with people and things that he/she likes, finds good and enjoys doing. Life is not a concert of wishes. Either you are fully behind your karma, you affirm your destiny, or life will be very hard for you (and become even harder). Whatever may come in life is not in our power, but what and how we deal with it is.
In your area it is not so nice? That depends, if they find it beautiful, then it is the most beautiful spot on earth. If you find your partner beautiful, then so is he/she. You can just choose how you want to deal with the situation, with the people, with your mind palace.
So if you are willing, then you will have a "beautiful" existence, if not, then not. It is your decision, depending on your willpower.
The way is the goal!
For will I call the working, because if the will is there, then one works, be it in works, words or thoughts
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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It is such a thing with the will, it sometimes develops unbelievable forces. Although according to the great teacher we should not want anything, in daily life we more often fall back into our learned behaviors.
It makes an incredible difference whether we perform our daily tasks and accomplishments with friends or with reluctance. A circumstance that is important only to us, perhaps of little importance to our immediate surroundings, but the rest of the world has no interest in how we feel.
How do I want to approach things, my job, my duties, my life? Do I want to want, or do I not want to want?
Whoever "wants" will live a beautiful life, effortlessly walking the steps of the day. But if you don't "want" to, you will feel uncomfortable, trudge effortfully through time.
We distinguish things and people according to whether we "want" them or not. Depending on how our decision turns out, only what we want we will do "gladly", what we do not "want" we will try to avoid, to procrastinate, to sit out. According to Buddha, we should not want anything, because it is the wanting that creates our suffering. If you don't want anything, you don't want anything, you take what comes, you won't be disappointed if it doesn't come as you "wanted".
But who is also forced to do what he does not "want", for example because it "must be", he has arrived in his mental prison, in which he has put himself.
Suppose you would do the same action again, but this time "want" to do it, then everything would be the same, except you, the approach would be completely different, otherwise nothing would change at all. What was so difficult for you before, now would be easier "off your hand", that is the only difference.
No human being has to deal only with people and things that he/she likes, finds good and enjoys doing. Life is not a concert of wishes. Either you are fully behind your karma, you affirm your destiny, or life will be very hard for you (and become even harder). Whatever may come in life is not in our power, but what and how we deal with it is.
In your area it is not so nice? That depends, if they find it beautiful, then it is the most beautiful spot on earth. If you find your partner beautiful, then so is he/she. You can just choose how you want to deal with the situation, with the people, with your mind palace.
So if you are willing, then you will have a "beautiful" existence, if not, then not. It is your decision, depending on your willpower.
The way is the goal!
For will I call the working, because if the will is there, then one works, be it in works, words or thoughts
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
The food in the temple
The food in the Shaolin Temple is traditionally very modest, naturally vegetarian and very healthy. The main dish (filling side dish) is rice, topped off with tofu and vegetables, fruits and berries.
Buddha and his followers were mendicant monks, the food came (mainly) from the alms walks he took with his followers mostly in the morning. Those on vacation in Southeast Asia can still see the monks performing their daily ritual.
The begging of food is supposed to make the monks more satisfied, since they have to be content with what is given, and do not have any wishes regarding their food.
The donors of the food acquire "good" karma by giving, which, by the way, was so common in India long before Buddha's lifetime, a rule that was apparently adopted. As a balance, the community was and is formally dependent on the interaction between monks and lay people, from weddings to funerals, everything takes place in Asia in the temples.
The theme of "discipline" and also "asceticism" runs like a thread through the life of Buddha. According to his philosophy, no monk should possess more (not even food) than he needs today. Well, this rule is quite possible in a warm country, in Europe it requires wise storage for the hard winters.
In today's Buddhist temples strict attention is paid to nutrition, the subject is important in Buddhism, food is considered the most important means of maintaining a healthy body, gluttony and gluttony are, according to the rules of the great teacher, a possible cause of suffering of people. If you look around on the street today, this aspect of the philosophy of the Indian prince is gaining more and more "weight".
The worldview of Buddha lets the practitioners limit life to "the most necessary", also and especially when it comes to eating.
Buddha usually ate only one meal a day, which corresponds to today's interval fasting. This was to avoid distracting the body from meditation and the process of awakening (enlightenment) with useless activities. In most Buddhist temples in this world, there are only one or two meals a day, usually coming to their end around noon. In Shaolin Temple China, a huge pot of rice bubbles all day for the monks to help themselves to, the leftovers with vegetables are also on the stove. Unlike other Buddhist temples, Shaolin monks move a lot and also strain, so their bodies have different requirements for food.
It has become common, especially in Thailand and Southeast Asia, for monks to eat fruit juices or soups in the evening, often donated by patrons.
Read more here in the next few days.
The way is the goal!
Those who live on right food, who do not bind themselves to any property, who find in the incomprehensible emptiness
in the incomprehensible emptiness, whose way is difficult to fathom like a bird's path in the air.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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The food in the Shaolin Temple is traditionally very modest, naturally vegetarian and very healthy. The main dish (filling side dish) is rice, topped off with tofu and vegetables, fruits and berries.
Buddha and his followers were mendicant monks, the food came (mainly) from the alms walks he took with his followers mostly in the morning. Those on vacation in Southeast Asia can still see the monks performing their daily ritual.
The begging of food is supposed to make the monks more satisfied, since they have to be content with what is given, and do not have any wishes regarding their food.
The donors of the food acquire "good" karma by giving, which, by the way, was so common in India long before Buddha's lifetime, a rule that was apparently adopted. As a balance, the community was and is formally dependent on the interaction between monks and lay people, from weddings to funerals, everything takes place in Asia in the temples.
The theme of "discipline" and also "asceticism" runs like a thread through the life of Buddha. According to his philosophy, no monk should possess more (not even food) than he needs today. Well, this rule is quite possible in a warm country, in Europe it requires wise storage for the hard winters.
In today's Buddhist temples strict attention is paid to nutrition, the subject is important in Buddhism, food is considered the most important means of maintaining a healthy body, gluttony and gluttony are, according to the rules of the great teacher, a possible cause of suffering of people. If you look around on the street today, this aspect of the philosophy of the Indian prince is gaining more and more "weight".
The worldview of Buddha lets the practitioners limit life to "the most necessary", also and especially when it comes to eating.
Buddha usually ate only one meal a day, which corresponds to today's interval fasting. This was to avoid distracting the body from meditation and the process of awakening (enlightenment) with useless activities. In most Buddhist temples in this world, there are only one or two meals a day, usually coming to their end around noon. In Shaolin Temple China, a huge pot of rice bubbles all day for the monks to help themselves to, the leftovers with vegetables are also on the stove. Unlike other Buddhist temples, Shaolin monks move a lot and also strain, so their bodies have different requirements for food.
It has become common, especially in Thailand and Southeast Asia, for monks to eat fruit juices or soups in the evening, often donated by patrons.
Read more here in the next few days.
The way is the goal!
Those who live on right food, who do not bind themselves to any property, who find in the incomprehensible emptiness
in the incomprehensible emptiness, whose way is difficult to fathom like a bird's path in the air.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
6 Minuten
Ceremonies
An integral part of my new life (as a budding monk) at the time was attending Buddhist ceremonies at Shaolin Temple.
These ceremonies always took place either very early, long before the temple door was opened for the crowds of visitors, or after dinner, when peace had returned to the monastery.
During the ceremonies, people prayed (and still do), chanted and meditate. Since I understood little Chinese at that time, I could hardly participate, standing (mostly sleepy) next to my master, doing the prostrations when he prostrated himself, murmuring the parts of the prayers I was familiar with, otherwise trying to keep a low profile.
The center of a Buddhist ceremony is the "altar". Similar to a Christian structure, there are devotional objects, figures and statues of the great teacher and also of Bodhidharma, but also candles, baskets with donations or offerings, containers with incense, flowers and jewelry. The big drum Yu (the fish) is sounded with a mallet during the prayers (it is also used as a signal to start and end the meditation), besides sometimes bells and instruments are used.
The monks were (and still are, of course) dressed in a special regalia, Shaolin wearing an orange robe with a brown overcoat that leaves out the right arm and hand (the tradition here is that the cloak is wrapped around the body in such a way that the left shoulder is covered and the right remains free, which is said to go back to the monk Huihe, who cut off his right arm in order to better understand the essence of Chan (Zen) Buddhism). The abbot is the only one to wear a red and gold-colored robe, which clearly sets him apart from the other monks.
Today, there are hardly any non-ordained people at ceremonies, but occasionally guests or film crews get the opportunity to witness the spiritual acts.
In general, there are Buddhist ceremonies for weddings, for the so-called taking of refuge, for entering adulthood, for house blessings, funerals, remembrance of the deceased (celebration of the dead), and, of course, for all kinds of Buddhist festivals, such as Buddha's birthday.
The life of mortal beings comes and goes, that is the basic idea of all ceremonies, until enlightenment is reached the Buddha is supposed to be a refuge.
As in Europe, ceremonies in Buddhism are an accumulation of rites and customs that have developed over thousands of years, depending on the Buddhist country and its language.
The central thesis in Buddhism was and is that every human being can reach enlightenment.
The way is the goal!
Let us visualize the seven limbs of insight that are helpful on the path of our endeavor
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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An integral part of my new life (as a budding monk) at the time was attending Buddhist ceremonies at Shaolin Temple.
These ceremonies always took place either very early, long before the temple door was opened for the crowds of visitors, or after dinner, when peace had returned to the monastery.
During the ceremonies, people prayed (and still do), chanted and meditate. Since I understood little Chinese at that time, I could hardly participate, standing (mostly sleepy) next to my master, doing the prostrations when he prostrated himself, murmuring the parts of the prayers I was familiar with, otherwise trying to keep a low profile.
The center of a Buddhist ceremony is the "altar". Similar to a Christian structure, there are devotional objects, figures and statues of the great teacher and also of Bodhidharma, but also candles, baskets with donations or offerings, containers with incense, flowers and jewelry. The big drum Yu (the fish) is sounded with a mallet during the prayers (it is also used as a signal to start and end the meditation), besides sometimes bells and instruments are used.
The monks were (and still are, of course) dressed in a special regalia, Shaolin wearing an orange robe with a brown overcoat that leaves out the right arm and hand (the tradition here is that the cloak is wrapped around the body in such a way that the left shoulder is covered and the right remains free, which is said to go back to the monk Huihe, who cut off his right arm in order to better understand the essence of Chan (Zen) Buddhism). The abbot is the only one to wear a red and gold-colored robe, which clearly sets him apart from the other monks.
Today, there are hardly any non-ordained people at ceremonies, but occasionally guests or film crews get the opportunity to witness the spiritual acts.
In general, there are Buddhist ceremonies for weddings, for the so-called taking of refuge, for entering adulthood, for house blessings, funerals, remembrance of the deceased (celebration of the dead), and, of course, for all kinds of Buddhist festivals, such as Buddha's birthday.
The life of mortal beings comes and goes, that is the basic idea of all ceremonies, until enlightenment is reached the Buddha is supposed to be a refuge.
As in Europe, ceremonies in Buddhism are an accumulation of rites and customs that have developed over thousands of years, depending on the Buddhist country and its language.
The central thesis in Buddhism was and is that every human being can reach enlightenment.
The way is the goal!
Let us visualize the seven limbs of insight that are helpful on the path of our endeavor
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
Negative things part 2
Right, negative things we want to ignore from now on (as far as it is somehow possible).
If something negative comes on TV again, then change the channel until something "positive" comes on.
If something negative is being talked about again, then don't participate in that conversation, but try to steer the topic to something positive, simply because your mood is contagious, because the "positive" topic spreads pleasant vibrations, because enough is enough with "bad" conversations.
If you find yourself thinking something negative again, change your thoughts at the exact moment you notice the "negative".
If there is too much drinking in the group again, take out the negative component by saying something like "I've had enough, I'll have a water now" out loud.
If your children fall into a negative pattern, take the time to turn the tide, you just need to do it and it will happen.
Negative things can be deprived of energy, drowned out by positive vibrations, directed in a different direction, you can play with it, try yourself out in energy work, work consciously on yourself (and thus also on your environment) again and again.
According to Buddha there is no "good" and no "bad", because this would presuppose a valuation. But we do notice the vibrations that negative things bring with them. And these are unpleasant, whether for awakened exalted ones, or for "feel-good Buddhists".
So we should help other people down from their dark and negative trips by an exemplary life, so that for us and our complete environment the being there is pleasant, we let our Buddha-nature also penetrate to the outside.
Roughly speaking, there are two ways to deal with "negative" things: First, to stay away from it, and second, to let the negative elements get to you. Decide for yourself which you prefer. I stopped listening to the news a long time ago, I stopped reading the newspapers, things are just not pleasant. I understand that many people are completely frightened by it, withdraw, in the worst case even get a mental disorder from it.
I for my part would like to have (if it is in my power) only positive vibrations around me, for that I stand up, there I am ready to work on it, also to put effort and time into the topic. According to Buddha, everything is illusory anyway, so why not set it up for me the way I find it comfortable?
Here it is especially true: The way is the goal!
Through a higher mental power I enter this destiny and stay in it.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
Right, negative things we want to ignore from now on (as far as it is somehow possible).
If something negative comes on TV again, then change the channel until something "positive" comes on.
If something negative is being talked about again, then don't participate in that conversation, but try to steer the topic to something positive, simply because your mood is contagious, because the "positive" topic spreads pleasant vibrations, because enough is enough with "bad" conversations.
If you find yourself thinking something negative again, change your thoughts at the exact moment you notice the "negative".
If there is too much drinking in the group again, take out the negative component by saying something like "I've had enough, I'll have a water now" out loud.
If your children fall into a negative pattern, take the time to turn the tide, you just need to do it and it will happen.
Negative things can be deprived of energy, drowned out by positive vibrations, directed in a different direction, you can play with it, try yourself out in energy work, work consciously on yourself (and thus also on your environment) again and again.
According to Buddha there is no "good" and no "bad", because this would presuppose a valuation. But we do notice the vibrations that negative things bring with them. And these are unpleasant, whether for awakened exalted ones, or for "feel-good Buddhists".
So we should help other people down from their dark and negative trips by an exemplary life, so that for us and our complete environment the being there is pleasant, we let our Buddha-nature also penetrate to the outside.
Roughly speaking, there are two ways to deal with "negative" things: First, to stay away from it, and second, to let the negative elements get to you. Decide for yourself which you prefer. I stopped listening to the news a long time ago, I stopped reading the newspapers, things are just not pleasant. I understand that many people are completely frightened by it, withdraw, in the worst case even get a mental disorder from it.
I for my part would like to have (if it is in my power) only positive vibrations around me, for that I stand up, there I am ready to work on it, also to put effort and time into the topic. According to Buddha, everything is illusory anyway, so why not set it up for me the way I find it comfortable?
Here it is especially true: The way is the goal!
Through a higher mental power I enter this destiny and stay in it.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
6 Minuten
Negative things
Very often I am asked how to deal with the many negative things around us. My answer is simple: ignore them.
Firstly, the term "negative" already contains a valuation (according to the great teacher, we should not judge), secondly, according to Buddha, we should not let these experiences get to us, but simply let them be as they are, take care of ourselves and our environment, because we can not change anything, but be an example to other people with our actions.
Assuming we would gather all inhabitants on the main square and demonstrate together (probably illusory, never all will have the same opinion), would anything really change? No matter how we shout and rant? Probably not. Because it comes so, as it should come, not at all differently.
But if we ourselves wear our wisdom like a loose shirt, become an example through our appearance, then we can perhaps impress the people around us, so that they then "imitate" us. Living the teachings of Buddha outwardly, not just putting up statues in the living room, no, but showing fellow human beings a way out of suffering, just through one's own actions, speech and life.
Negative things are a matter of feeling. If I constantly see news about war and misery, then something changes in me, the war itself does not change a bit. There will be endless suffering whether I know about it or not, only my self changes. But if I wear my attitude "like a loose shirt", then I can show other people that just not everything is only hardship and misery, but that there is a way out of the cycle of suffering.
Here it is (first of all) irrelevant whether I am an awakened yogi, or a "feel-good Buddhist", it is important to set out on the journey, to follow the teacher of all teachers on the path, to "appropriate" the example of the Buddha, so that I can pass on the teaching to my environment. But not by proselytizing, but by presenting a role model whose loose shirt looks so nice, so that the wearer of the shirt seems as he/she is on the right path. And the right way, it doesn't include war and misery, because the person with the right attitude doesn't carry around all the guilt of this world anymore.
If again the conversation comes to negative things, then simply do not participate in it, let the bad energy drip off on you like the water on an umbrella.
Read in the next days further, how you should deal with "negative" things, people and experiences according to my opinion
The way is the goal!
Choose bad never to friends, never to friends the mean.
Seek to unite in noble friendship with the best!
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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Very often I am asked how to deal with the many negative things around us. My answer is simple: ignore them.
Firstly, the term "negative" already contains a valuation (according to the great teacher, we should not judge), secondly, according to Buddha, we should not let these experiences get to us, but simply let them be as they are, take care of ourselves and our environment, because we can not change anything, but be an example to other people with our actions.
Assuming we would gather all inhabitants on the main square and demonstrate together (probably illusory, never all will have the same opinion), would anything really change? No matter how we shout and rant? Probably not. Because it comes so, as it should come, not at all differently.
But if we ourselves wear our wisdom like a loose shirt, become an example through our appearance, then we can perhaps impress the people around us, so that they then "imitate" us. Living the teachings of Buddha outwardly, not just putting up statues in the living room, no, but showing fellow human beings a way out of suffering, just through one's own actions, speech and life.
Negative things are a matter of feeling. If I constantly see news about war and misery, then something changes in me, the war itself does not change a bit. There will be endless suffering whether I know about it or not, only my self changes. But if I wear my attitude "like a loose shirt", then I can show other people that just not everything is only hardship and misery, but that there is a way out of the cycle of suffering.
Here it is (first of all) irrelevant whether I am an awakened yogi, or a "feel-good Buddhist", it is important to set out on the journey, to follow the teacher of all teachers on the path, to "appropriate" the example of the Buddha, so that I can pass on the teaching to my environment. But not by proselytizing, but by presenting a role model whose loose shirt looks so nice, so that the wearer of the shirt seems as he/she is on the right path. And the right way, it doesn't include war and misery, because the person with the right attitude doesn't carry around all the guilt of this world anymore.
If again the conversation comes to negative things, then simply do not participate in it, let the bad energy drip off on you like the water on an umbrella.
Read in the next days further, how you should deal with "negative" things, people and experiences according to my opinion
The way is the goal!
Choose bad never to friends, never to friends the mean.
Seek to unite in noble friendship with the best!
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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6 Minuten
Healing "Yourself" Part 6
Good, you have come this far, karma seems to be sending you a message.
So you are ready to take on the not-so-easy journey of at least attempting the painful healing process. What always helps are notes, for example in the form of a diary, or on a simple piece of paper. Here you can unload everything that is bothering you, give free rein to your feelings, this is where honesty begins. Write things down as they are, not as you would like them to be, life is not a concert of wishes.
What has worked is to always ask yourself simple questions before taking notes, such as:
Will I continue to heal?
Where am I in the process?
What's next for me?
What am I stuck on?
How am I doing, physically and mentally?
We humans don't always act logically, often we hurt ourselves for reasons we don't even understand. Often we are dissatisfied with ourselves, our emotions go crazy, we get angry, frightened, indignant, angry and desperate. All emotions that we craft for ourselves, which according to Buddha are completely unnecessary and also useless. Nevertheless, we get entangled in them, can't help it, we are constantly thinking (with our ego) about our "situation", are in self-talk, demanding, wanting, wishing, cursing. None of it helps, nothing changes, only we get "bad" at it.
Self-healing is such a thing, deep inside we already know everything about it, but we repress it, because we don't feel "well", or because we just can't think clearly, because we have buried our feelings under a pile of shards, from destroyed dreams, broken relationships, fears, worries and paranoia. To clear away all these shards requires strength, discipline and effort, without effort the process cannot be mastered. Every person can do this, but every person can also let "it" slide, continue to live in his illusions, maybe even be satisfied in the process, everyone is different, there are no generally valid rules for the human mind palace.
Only those who want to grow (according to Buddha, by the way, we are not supposed to want anything) can set out on the journey, because we all need to heal, modern man is completely shattered, no longer knows where is up and where is down, because the senses are flooded, the panic reflexes come from evolution, only we can help ourselves.
And one day then from the "well-being Buddhism" then becomes an awakening process.
The way is the goal!
I have clearly recognized the dangers contained in aging, illness, death, sorrow and defilement.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
Good, you have come this far, karma seems to be sending you a message.
So you are ready to take on the not-so-easy journey of at least attempting the painful healing process. What always helps are notes, for example in the form of a diary, or on a simple piece of paper. Here you can unload everything that is bothering you, give free rein to your feelings, this is where honesty begins. Write things down as they are, not as you would like them to be, life is not a concert of wishes.
What has worked is to always ask yourself simple questions before taking notes, such as:
Will I continue to heal?
Where am I in the process?
What's next for me?
What am I stuck on?
How am I doing, physically and mentally?
We humans don't always act logically, often we hurt ourselves for reasons we don't even understand. Often we are dissatisfied with ourselves, our emotions go crazy, we get angry, frightened, indignant, angry and desperate. All emotions that we craft for ourselves, which according to Buddha are completely unnecessary and also useless. Nevertheless, we get entangled in them, can't help it, we are constantly thinking (with our ego) about our "situation", are in self-talk, demanding, wanting, wishing, cursing. None of it helps, nothing changes, only we get "bad" at it.
Self-healing is such a thing, deep inside we already know everything about it, but we repress it, because we don't feel "well", or because we just can't think clearly, because we have buried our feelings under a pile of shards, from destroyed dreams, broken relationships, fears, worries and paranoia. To clear away all these shards requires strength, discipline and effort, without effort the process cannot be mastered. Every person can do this, but every person can also let "it" slide, continue to live in his illusions, maybe even be satisfied in the process, everyone is different, there are no generally valid rules for the human mind palace.
Only those who want to grow (according to Buddha, by the way, we are not supposed to want anything) can set out on the journey, because we all need to heal, modern man is completely shattered, no longer knows where is up and where is down, because the senses are flooded, the panic reflexes come from evolution, only we can help ourselves.
And one day then from the "well-being Buddhism" then becomes an awakening process.
The way is the goal!
I have clearly recognized the dangers contained in aging, illness, death, sorrow and defilement.
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
6 Minuten
Healing "Yourself" Part 5
Well, you have come a long way with me, the subject of "self-healing" seems to be close to your heart. There is also a Buddhist component in the matter, in the philosophy of the great teacher it was (and is) about the "awakening process", about the goal of enlightenment, about liberation from suffering.
You have already achieved a lot now, my topic "self-healing" has been going on for almost a week. But there were also moments this week that had a high price. Struggling to see eye-to-eye with your own ego, constantly nagging, wallowing in self-pity, that makes the "waking up" process a painful one to embrace. Here you don't hear the glad tidings of the "Kingdom of Heaven" where you sit on a cloud and drink manna, no, this is about the process of awakening.
Can you "accept" this process, accept it, see things as they really are, not as you imagine them to be? Life is suffering, the healing process is no exception, on the contrary, here the suffering is intensified (for a certain time), the suffering is made up for, brought out again, intensified.
Everything that we have repressed comes out, seeks a way out of the buried psyche to the outside, just as the healing of the body can cause pain, so it is with the healing of the mind. And it is super complicated, which is why many people also "break" over their own minds. The line between insanity and genius is fluid, Buddha constantly warned his disciples against the antics of the ego.
But you will grow from it, whether you succeed this time or not, you will grow and grow. Take all the time in the world, make peace with your ego, with your surroundings, and of course with your karma. It is what it is, not what we wish it to be.
Again and again the ego will whisper something to you, the little devil on your shoulder will babble at you all day, telling you all kinds of things, what if? Why do I only have? Will I? Do I have? Do I have to? Should I? Or better not? Coulda, woulda, woulda. Take setbacks as constructive elements, not as defeats. You are growing, it takes time, it doesn't happen overnight.
In the next few days, read the last part of the topic "healing yourself".
The way is the goal!
If you associate with true people, you will understand the true teaching
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
Well, you have come a long way with me, the subject of "self-healing" seems to be close to your heart. There is also a Buddhist component in the matter, in the philosophy of the great teacher it was (and is) about the "awakening process", about the goal of enlightenment, about liberation from suffering.
You have already achieved a lot now, my topic "self-healing" has been going on for almost a week. But there were also moments this week that had a high price. Struggling to see eye-to-eye with your own ego, constantly nagging, wallowing in self-pity, that makes the "waking up" process a painful one to embrace. Here you don't hear the glad tidings of the "Kingdom of Heaven" where you sit on a cloud and drink manna, no, this is about the process of awakening.
Can you "accept" this process, accept it, see things as they really are, not as you imagine them to be? Life is suffering, the healing process is no exception, on the contrary, here the suffering is intensified (for a certain time), the suffering is made up for, brought out again, intensified.
Everything that we have repressed comes out, seeks a way out of the buried psyche to the outside, just as the healing of the body can cause pain, so it is with the healing of the mind. And it is super complicated, which is why many people also "break" over their own minds. The line between insanity and genius is fluid, Buddha constantly warned his disciples against the antics of the ego.
But you will grow from it, whether you succeed this time or not, you will grow and grow. Take all the time in the world, make peace with your ego, with your surroundings, and of course with your karma. It is what it is, not what we wish it to be.
Again and again the ego will whisper something to you, the little devil on your shoulder will babble at you all day, telling you all kinds of things, what if? Why do I only have? Will I? Do I have? Do I have to? Should I? Or better not? Coulda, woulda, woulda. Take setbacks as constructive elements, not as defeats. You are growing, it takes time, it doesn't happen overnight.
In the next few days, read the last part of the topic "healing yourself".
The way is the goal!
If you associate with true people, you will understand the true teaching
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
Copyright: https://shaolin-rainer.de
(Please also download my app "Buddha-Blog English" from the Apple and Android stores)
