Forgive to Live Better
Forgive to Live Better · 11. May 2020
‘Right concentration or Meditation’ is the last and foremost important lessons on eight-fold path given by Buddha. People often get confused that for practicing meditation one needs to have deep concentrations ability. In fact, meditation is itself a deep concentration. According to one of the talks by Thich Nhat Hanh , a Vietnamese monk, ‘Practicing meditation is like practicing or learning how to concentrate deeply by teaching your monkey mind to focus on something.’ But this focus should be
Forgive to Live Better · 10. May 2020
‘Right Mindfulness’ is seventh lessons on eight-fold path given by Buddha. This is the most famous widely practiced technique and approach leading to happy and wholesome life. Mindfulness is called as ‘sati’ in Pali language, which means "retention," "recollection," or "alertness." It is a whole-body-and-mind awareness of the present moment and therefore requires right efforts to do so.
Forgive to Live Better · 09. May 2020
‘Right Livelihood’ and ‘Right Efforts’ are respectively fifth and sixth lessons on eight-fold path given by Buddha. Any profession or action of livelihood which is pro society and pro humanity is right livelihood.
Forgive to Live Better · 08. May 2020
To survive to serve, one had to depend on life of its lower and it is righteous. This is the law of Nature. But it someone is taking a life of lower, to survive - not to serve but to live greedily, it is against the lesson of right actions. This may sound little bit difficult to understand.
Forgive to Live Better · 07. May 2020
One has to be more conscious about words, because physical wounds takes just couple of days or weeks to heal, but injuries of verbal and mental hurt, takes years and years, sometime lifetimes to heal. These injuries can’t be been easily, but it hurts a lot. And sometimes their impression is so deeply carved in one’s unconscious mind that it affects the person’s life in many aspects.
Forgive to Live Better · 06. May 2020
Many times, we have good intentions. But influenced by our lower emotions and thoughts, our intentions turn into bad. And that is why great teachers have always focused on purification. Greater the internal purification is, greater is the control of SELF is over managing our lower nature. After all, a knife can be used by skillful surgeon to save the life of a patient or by thief to rob and kill an innocent. Instrument is same, what differs is the INTENTIONS.
Forgive to Live Better · 05. May 2020
we all try to look thing, but we rarely try to see things with right views. Sometimes we see things according to our perception, without even trying to know what actually they are. Our perception may or may not be always right. After all, we all are learning. If we continue to believe the things as we see, without making efforts to see the other side of coin, we are actually deluding ourselves from knowing the truth.
Forgive to Live Better · 04. May 2020
No matter how we treat them, they are the only people in the world who always treated us good. Even if they never treated you good, at least they gave you very important lesson on parenting. And this only, is enough reason to forgive them. Because when we forgive them, we actually allow our SELF to heal out of old wound- Helping ourselves to guide and direct next generation, without reflecting our bitter past in our behaviour.
Forgive to Live Better · 03. May 2020
What we don’t know, we will never be able to teach to our children. If we don’t have something, we can not give it to others. So, the same is with our parents. If they don’t know how to love themselves, how to express love to others, they can’t teach you to love yourselves and to express ourselves. All our parenting is the reflection of what we are to ourselves. And each one of us is limited in giving love by the limits to our capacity to love. And that is not at their fault.
Forgive to Live Better · 02. May 2020
For children, at their very early age, their parents are their whole world. If parents said that their child can do it, child do to with all of his efforts and capacities, but if even for a once, parents says that their child cannot do it, then, sometimes that child will never ever try to do it in his life time. This is the reason, why few people never dare to do something creative or new. Because from childhood they were been program that doing new, out of the box or creative is no their cup of