LIFE by the DALAI LAMA

LIFE by the DALAI LAMA

This is what The Dalai Lama has to say on the millennium. All it takes is a few seconds to read and think over.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements, involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Enlightenment

An acient proverb, probably horribly misquoted, but essentially correct:

A student, searching for enlightenment, was walking the path one hot sunny day, when the student met a traveler walking the path down the hill and carrying a heavy load. The student at once recognized the traveler as an enlightened being and stopped the traveler to speak with him. The student asked the traveler, "Master, what is enlightenment?" The traveler stopped, thought a moment, set his heavy load to the ground, and looked at the student with a sly smile on his face. The student realized the leason, and then asked, "Master, but after enlightenment, then what?" At that, the traveler smiled broadly, took up his heavy load, and continued his walk along the path.

Face the Facts

I find it disingenuous when people quote bible verses. They always go for the prosaic ones like, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son…”, which is by the way blasphemy if you read all of the bible, or "I am the way the truth and the life...", which is just absurd. These people quote the pretty verses, but completely ignore the verses which institute slavery, which treat women as property, and which order bigotry and unmitigated slaughter. Mind you, none of these biblical institutions has ever been rescinded.

Is it possible people are just unaware? Or is it possible they do not want to face the ugly truth of the bible, which is that it is a stone aged religion lacking any “truth” what so ever.

THINK! The mind is a terrible thing to waste.