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By Anitya     

Reading back over my posts over the year, I am reminded that most of the insights I’ve posted about don’t seem that profound when they are written down.

And to be honest, they probably aren’t.

Be kind to people, be aware of what is happening, don’t let emotions cloud your judgement, they are all pretty much things that we already know.

Most religions and spiritual lifestyles even acknowledge this.

There is a great story about Moses who is sitting beside God while He is hammering down the Ten Commandments.

After a few Commandments Moses begins to snigger and as God progresses to put down more Moses is having more and more difficulty to contain his laughter.

Finally God testily turns to him and asks what he is laughing about.

Moses replies that these of course are great commandments, but that he is laughing about the fact that God apparently thinks that they couldn’t come up with these themselves.

In any case, it doesn’t really matter if any practice is profound or special, the important thing is that it works.

I’ve experienced this for myself and hope that you will find some inspiration in these simple yet effective thoughts.

Have a good day!

Work and practice update.

By Anitya     

So, I’ve been posting in small sentences the last two days.

This is mainly because, however trite these saying may sound at first glance, they are actually more profound than you’d think.

At least, they do for me.

Especially the one about time has become more and more important for me.

The interesting thing is that although it I am becoming more concious about the value of time, but at the same time I seem to be able to do much more with it. This leads to a heightened feeling, like you are living four times as much in at least half the time. It’s exhilarating.

In other news, I’m switching my meditation practice from the Zen Center to the Nyingma Center. That’s not in any way a criticism of the Zen Center, it’s just that it’s much more practical for me to meditate where I do the rest of my practice. I also, because I’ve been spending so much time there, feel much more at ease with the space and people, which is something I’ve found I need. Feels like a good decision.

Work is going terrific. We’re going strong and hopefully our new products will arrive from Nepal this week, where they have been held up for about a month due to misunderstandings. After we have checked them and decided that they are good enough to sell and market, I’ll let you know what they are. We’re quite chuffed with what we have been able to acquire.

So, a good day to you all!

Time

By Anitya     

You only have a very limited amount of time.

Use it all as best you can!

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Weblog by an ex addict about ordinary life from a Buddhist perspective.

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