Letters From the Dalai Lama
January 20, 2006
Note: I’ve been reading The Art of Hapiness at Work by the Dalai Lama and H. Cutler. I will be posting some reflections/”AHA!” moments here for the next few days.
“So when these challenges come, you should welcome them, embrace them willingly, and see them as a way to develop yourself, to prosper, to ultimately achieve a greater sense of well being and hapiness. Challenges can have this positive purpose, this benefit.”
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
My Master challenged me the other day. She wanted me to do things that I thought was impossible. Reluctantly, I agreed to her wishes. At first, I was pretty much fuming at the seams. Then I read the quote above.
In the past, I used to react negatively to “challenges”, seeing them as an affront to my “intelligence” and “pride”. People usually told me to take them positively but I thought it was all just bullshit. These people just want to fuck with me. They were just in their power-high modes.
I NEVER thought that I could use a challenge to better myself. Godammit I’ve been such a fool! Such a closed-minded little prick! Instead of focusing my energy and thought to becoming better, I was using it to fuel my anger. Stupid little me.
What do I do now? Where do I go? How should I feel? Questions swirl in my mind as a previously unknown door was found in the darkest recesses of mind.
tag: dalai lama, buddhism, challenge
Previous Comments
Regret.
Admiting you were wrong.
God, it reaaly stings when you know it's all YOUR fault. Not even sado-masochists like it.
Change is something I'll be delving more in the coming posts. I do hope you guys take it with me.
Thanks Caz
PS–took out the freaking ads. It was them ads that was making my blog turtle up. You weren't the first one to notice this. Now I am ad free. Money-free as well.
Heck. I did this thing to share my thoughts to the world anyway.
Posted by taorist at January 24, 2006, 5:56 pmTao - seems to be okay now.
After I posted the last comment - which used up half of my remaining life - I ran a scan, and there was a nasty cookie, and that had obviously caused all the problems.
Maybe having adverts wasn't the problem, but some of the adverts perhaps came with inbuilt nasty things that messed with our computers.
Perhaps you can find some "clean" advertisers!
Posted by Caz at January 26, 2006, 1:03 pmDamn ads.
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Ah yes, the anger that comes with recognising that other people are RIGHT!
It's the same when you reject someone's criticism, even when it is presented kindly, with sincerity and a genuine wish to be of help. Sometimes they are wrong, but very often they are right and the anger isn’t' just the sting of feeling criticised; it’s also the sting of not having had the self knowledge to recognise the fault yourself. Worse is when you realise the other person is right, and that you would be doing yourself an enormous disservice if you stubbornly refuse to try to make changes – but for yourself, not to try to please anyone.
Changing oneself is the single most difficult thing to do in life, not impossible, but very difficult.
BTW – I keep having the most awful time with your new site, it takes ages to load, and even worse when I click to read “more” of a particular post, which is when it freezes up for ages, seems to be connecting to things, and then my computer freezes up…aaahhhh! Is anyone else having the same problem? Maybe it’s just me? It just took me 30 minutes of your blog freezing up, to post this comment!! Seriously.
Posted by Caz at January 24, 2006, 3:31 pm