Do zazen every day for 2 minutes for no reason. MU

> All the stress makes me to be always in a bad mood, even angry and the beloved persons around me are paying for it. That's not fair, and it makes me feel even worse.

I really feel that I need to do zazen, to calm my mind, at least a little, and relax. I know I have to do it but I am always tired, and I find hard to wake up earlier.

Any suggestion? <

javier

  (  the suggestion is around the middle of the video:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpfoh47L8iw  )

gassho

Hi Bro,

There is no need to set aside a special time or place to meditate. If you really want to understand your mind, just watch it while it is angry. What you realised is the after effect , only after your anger has subsided. By then, words and your actions have caused the damage. The more you want to be free of the anger, the more you are not free from it. Bear in mind that thoughts and emotions are just momentary and possess no life of their own. By clinging to them, you only work yourself up. This awareness of yours can only brings new insight into life, by watching and dealing your anger, desire and ignorance as they arises. Note brother Woodsman 's advice. That will help you along the way.

Take Care

With Metta.

Kelvin Tan

mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Hi Bro,

You have come this far and we all need to free ourselves of preconceived perceptions of who we are. Only then true compassion will arise.  And so long as  the thought of practising compassion arise in our mind, we not not free from suffering.

Sharing yours thoughts.

With Metta

Kelvin Tan

has this path ever been mine?

mule?

OSHO: Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy.

Seeing is believing? If you want to be rich, start working on the human mind and come out with your own belief system. It always work. You can have everything you one, clothing and fine watch because you make yourself different from the rest. Mind is caught up with the external world. Try emulating Mother Theresa.

With Metta

Kelvin Tan

Quote: "Quote: "Keep good eye contact, and use first names if you can, and speak meaningfully, from your heart, but blame no none. I&apos;m working on that One : ) : "
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I think "no none" sounds better, and use humor. Smile alot, for no reason at all, and if they ask why you are smiling, just say you farted.
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hahahaha

Quote: "Was Mother T. a mystic? If she wasn&apos;t, I&apos;m having second thoughts. Can you give me a male mystic to worship? "
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Hi Bro,

Belief in itself shows Selfishness

The Way to Heaven is to do good

On Earth . What the Hell is this?

 People's appetite for the Truth

Is little as they  tend to clamour

for any Cult Personality that come

Someone to count on in Believing

Start worshipping Your Non-self

NO need to look for a male Mystic

There are plenty out There.

With Metta

Kelvin Tan

Quote: 'Make the self empty'; originally there isn't any thing.' That's right, it is empty;

however, one still exists as an individual. If one, in fact, exists here and now and speaks of being 'empty, empty,' while still continuing to exist as an individual, then one is still here. One isn't empty.

"This teaching is to help people get rid of their attachments. Don't be attached to the existence of a self."

With Metta

Kelvin Tan

Quote:

O bhikkhus, when neither self nor anything pertaining to self can truly and really be found, this speculative views:

"The universe is that atman (Soul); I shall be that after death, permanent, abiding, everlasting, unchanging, and I shall exist as such for eternity" - is it not wholly and completely foolish?

(Majjhima I 138, quoted in Rahula, What the Buddha Taught 59)

With Metta

maybe it is to give up the attachment of  self that cannot include being empty?

Quote: "Tell me when we get there, unless we&apos;re there already, then I don&apos;t want to know. thanks "
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if I do not know..will I assume to be already there?

Quote: maybe it is to give up the attachment of  self that cannot include being empty?

Like empty space. Make the self empty. Don't be attached to the existence of a self.

Letting go of all your worries. It is all in the state of the mind.

Freedom.

With Metta

Quote: "Space isn&apos;t empty. And no one can make herself empty. Like &apos;eternity&apos; ceases to mean &apos;without beginning and without end&apos; when one says, "I shall be that &apos;after death&apos;, permanent, abiding, everlasting, unchanging...""
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Rightly understood, 'emptiness' is not a concept to be understood intellectually; it is a way of life. it points to the emptying of our experience moment after moment.

We learn to see ourselves and our concerns, both desires and fears, as empty - like a mirage or a dream.

In total agreement with your explaination.

With Metta

 :(  I don't know what to do

"To see clearly and directly the truth of our experience in each moment, to be aware, to be mindful".

With Metta.

Kelvin Tan

Hi Bro Rustie

"In all our speech and writing we only make use of a few letters in the alphabet but what marvels, and utter destruction we can do with these few letters.

Words can bring us gain or loss, praise or blame, good repute or ill will, happiness or misery.

A gentle word, at times, can melt the hardest heart." - K Sri Dhammananda

"For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish.We should be careful indeed what we say ".- Confucius

With Metta

Kelvin Tan

Quote: "There is nothing to done and lots of it, you can believe me or you can shove it up your arse. "
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Sorry for the wrong spelling in post reply. I cannot see what I post  over herebut have a vivid memory spelling Rustie instead of Rustic.

Yours Truly

With Metta

Kelvin Tan

Quote: "I will stop posting for awhile."
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Hi Lynn,

This guy, have taken time to care

In giving and wanting to share

In his grace and making amends

There is this wisdom to have

Friendship in constant repair

May all my brothers and sisters

out there Be well and Happy.

With Metta

Kelvin Tan

Quote: "I use to have a hamster named Rustie. I&apos;d yell, "Hey Rustie, come over here!" And he wouldn&apos;t, he&apos;d just spin in his wheel. Maybe his name wasn&apos;t Rustie. But I did use hand gestures too. Good eye contact too... Wait a minute! Maybe Rustie was blind! Or just near-sighted. He wasn&apos;t the smartest hamster in the bunch, but neither was I. Maybe that&apos;s why he didn&apos;t like me. But he was a vegetarian, too. He did bite a friend of mine once, but I think he thought he was a cherry, I did too. "
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why did you write this?

hahahahaha... why so often it feels like I've been thrown to the deep end and everyone is watching...  thus swimming lessons

hahahahaha... why so often it feels like I've been thrown to the deep end and everyone is watching...  thus swimming lessons

Quote: "Give love a change. Be there for them. & don&apos;t stop posting I need to know whats in your heart and on your mine. It&apos;s only love that can change your world & fell your life with compassion of the heart. Neaver let your self be not spoke of. take care of your self & be good to your self. love RORY"
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:)