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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My sister dropped by today to drop off some books. Haven't seen her in at least two years if not longer. She limps worse than I do and for much the…
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Oh, she says, getting cold feet, this is such a bad idea. Too late now. But our business co-ord called me today to tell me all the news. Her mother…
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Walk every day, they said, so I walked over to my local cafe. Hoped they might be doing indoor seating by now, but no. David the barista said Maybe…
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