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I heard someone on the radio say this today and found it interesting:
What does the Buddha teach us? With our thoughts we make the world. And if your thoughts are filled with strife and angst that is the world you will occupy.
It is a perception that can be misconstrued. What I like to say (in my infinite wisdom) is that it is not what happens to us that matters as much as how we deal with it. Of course that entails an approach to life or what could be called expectation.
I heard someone on the radio say this today and found it interesting:
What does the Buddha teach us? With our thoughts we make the world. And if your thoughts are filled with strife and angst that is the world you will occupy.
I'm Buddhist.
There's an element of truth to what you related, but I always try to keep this in perspective by looking at the history of 2 Buddhist nations (and having lived in Thailand for a while and seen this first hand) where Buddhism is much more a part of every day life than Christianity is here in the States. Yet these 2 Buddhist nations for hundreds of years were almost constantly at battle with each other, devastated each others cities, and kidnapped and enslaved each others populations.
My point is that what your thoughts are will affect how you live in the world, but will probably not very much affect the world condition.
There is another fable in Siamese history about a monk who was so handsome that women would not leave him alone. So he ate himself fat, thus making himself unattractive to women.
Buddha taught so many things! Did he teach to be an observer and be detached, be in the moment?
Or did I just pick that up from Alan Watts and koans after the Buddha?
Anyone?
There's an element of truth to what you related, but I always try to keep this in perspective by looking at the history of 2 Buddhist nations (and having lived in Thailand for a while and seen this first hand) where Buddhism is much more a part of every day life than Christianity is here in the States. Yet these 2 Buddhist nations for hundreds of years were almost constantly at battle with each other, devastated each others cities, and kidnapped and enslaved each others populations.
My point is that what your thoughts are will affect how you live in the world, but will probably not very much affect the world condition.
My take on this would be ( always the glass half full, ya know!!),
They effected the World very much...they kept it to themselves!
They didn't test bombs to see if they could hit another shore 3000 miles away.
I heard someone on the radio say this today and found it interesting:
What does the Buddha teach us? With our thoughts we make the world. And if your thoughts are filled with strife and angst that is the world you will occupy.
There's an element of truth to what you related, but I always try to keep this in perspective by looking at the history of 2 Buddhist nations (and having lived in Thailand for a while and seen this first hand) where Buddhism is much more a part of every day life than Christianity is here in the States. Yet these 2 Buddhist nations for hundreds of years were almost constantly at battle with each other, devastated each others cities, and kidnapped and enslaved each others populations.
My point is that what your thoughts are will affect how you live in the world, but will probably not very much affect the world condition.
Which one of the nations won?
Who is looked at as the master, and who is the slave or can you put it in terms that way like Japan and China?
Buddha taught so many things! Did he teach to be an observer and be detached, be in the moment?
Or did I just pick that up from Alan Watts and koans after the Buddha?
Anyone?
That was a big part of what he taught. In fact, I would say that he taught that multi-tasking is not wise.
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