one of the paths to happiness:
let go of being "Right"
watch this:
Life is like this:
we have a choice
at any moment:
mindful or mindless.
This doesn't sound polite,
but it's true by definition.
The harsh truth beneath this
is that in the mindless world,
we can cruise on automatic when
things "go well,"
but when the "shit hits the fan,"
if not mindful
= mindless, then...
alas....
we have to fall back on conditioning
and with most of our parents
and past "troubles"
this can be slippery/ messy / awful territory
into which to fal
yuk
and it's no wonder life is so
"hard" sometimes
and here's couple more
"truths"
when mindful we can't accuse/ blame/ judge
I'll explain that later,
but you figure it out
and it's cousin:
when we do judge,
we are always mindless
and
always in pain,
because it's totally and always true that when we judge
we also judge ourselves
and that's painful
indeed,
the pain of judging ourselves
is what we try to relieve by judging
others
never works,
though we can get the false satisfaction of
being right.
except this is true,
too:
you can be right or you can be happy
sometimes both:
like right about the time,
or about loving a flower,
but the right that makes another "wrong"
as in "bad person wrong"
always brings unhappiness
ask Jesus,
ask Gurumaya
ask Buddha,
ask your experience:
think about getting huffed up and "right"
about another person being
"wrong/ bad" and feel the yuk
of how it really was to be you then
la,
la
life is good
we have a choice
at any moment:
mindful or mindless.
This doesn't sound polite,
but it's true by definition.
The harsh truth beneath this
is that in the mindless world,
we can cruise on automatic when
things "go well,"
but when the "shit hits the fan,"
if not mindful
= mindless, then...
alas....
we have to fall back on conditioning
and with most of our parents
and past "troubles"
this can be slippery/ messy / awful territory
into which to fal
yuk
and it's no wonder life is so
"hard" sometimes
and here's couple more
"truths"
when mindful we can't accuse/ blame/ judge
I'll explain that later,
but you figure it out
and it's cousin:
when we do judge,
we are always mindless
and
always in pain,
because it's totally and always true that when we judge
we also judge ourselves
and that's painful
indeed,
the pain of judging ourselves
is what we try to relieve by judging
others
never works,
though we can get the false satisfaction of
being right.
except this is true,
too:
you can be right or you can be happy
sometimes both:
like right about the time,
or about loving a flower,
but the right that makes another "wrong"
as in "bad person wrong"
always brings unhappiness
ask Jesus,
ask Gurumaya
ask Buddha,
ask your experience:
think about getting huffed up and "right"
about another person being
"wrong/ bad" and feel the yuk
of how it really was to be you then
la,
la
life is good
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