Finished my odd Tibetan Buddhism book. Wiki says Thubten Chodron comes from a Jewish background, but boy does she still sound Baptist to me. 'OMG! OMG! That angry thought will lead to millennia of bad karma!! Do a purification ceremony at once!! Wash your spiritual hands immediately!! You don't want millennia of bad karma, do you?? Of course not!!!' (Her rhetorical questions and answers are off-puttingly nanny-like.) Me, I prefer Thich Nhat Hanh's approach to anger: look after it. Accept it, gentle it, say 'I hear you.' That's the way to defuse the emotion. Rejection... mh well, I rather thought Buddhism frowned on violent rejection of anything.
Finished my odd Tibetan Buddhism book. Wiki says Thubten Chodron comes from a Jewish background, but boy does she still sound Baptist to me. 'OMG! OMG! That angry thought will lead to millennia of bad karma!! Do a purification ceremony at once!! Wash your spiritual hands immediately!! You don't want millennia of bad karma, do you?? Of course not!!!' (Her rhetorical questions and answers are off-puttingly nanny-like.) Me, I prefer Thich Nhat Hanh's approach to anger: look after it. Accept it, gentle it, say 'I hear you.' That's the way to defuse the emotion. Rejection... mh well, I rather thought Buddhism frowned on violent rejection of anything.
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Well, that was the year that was
Years begin to lose their flavour. 2017 made no impression on me at all, not even weather-wise. They say it rained all spring and most of the summer,…
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Recent wanton extravagences
1. Setting the thermostat so high I don't have to wear socks in bed. 2. 18% cereal cream in my tea. 3. Instant oatmeal. In spite of no.1 up there,…
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Makes her feel the way she used to feel
Erranded in a satisfactory fashion today: the library, the bank, a post box, Doug Miller; subwayed back a stop and bussed up to Loblaws and got…
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