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Yo King serene, when i had time for lotsa reflection i studied this cat named Bo Lozoff and he was big time for me.
He summed life up in 2 words,,,,"be kind".

Nice!

I can't seem to help the odd moment of regret, especially at the minute. Good to have an ideal though :o)

Incidentally, came across this today:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/bits/bits093.htm

Being a bit of a martyr-type, I sometimes did try and meet rudeness in others with compassion...the worse they were the damn nicer I got...always wondered why it didn't work! They carried on being rude and I still felt miserable!

Never realised the trick was to ACTUALLY BE compassionate towards others whether they behaved the way I wanted them to or not :)

Not always so easy though hehe

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Heres one Paul still in progress for me Too butt.....Lojong mind training practice was developed over a 300-year period between 900 and 1200 CE, as part of the Mahyna school of Buddhism. Atia (9821054 CE), a Bengali meditation master, is generally regarded as the originator of the practice. It is described in his book Lamp on the Path to Enlightenment (Bodhipathapradpa). The practice is based upon his studies with the Sumatran teacher, Dharmarakita, author of a text called the Wheel of Sharp Weapons. Both these texts are well known in Tibetan translation.

Atia journeyed to Sumatra and studied with Dharmarakita for twelve years. He then returned to teach in India, but at an advanced age accepted an invitation to teach in Tibet, where he stayed for the rest of his life.[3]

A story is told that Atia heard that the inhabitants of Tibet were very pleasant and easy to get along with. Instead of being delighted, he was concerned that he would not have enough negative emotion to work with in his mind training practice. So he brought along his ill-tempered Bengali servant-boy, who would criticize him incessantly and was challenging to spend time with. Tibetan teachers then like to joke that when Atia arrived in Tibet, he realized there was no need after all.

I woke up this morning regretting a deed done yesterday Oh Welll..... Oh and Bobby how much simpler can it be to practice "Be Kind" than to Skin a bear Nooooooo:)

Good to read for this morning. Nice Billy... :}