Mindfulness

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Envy is the art of counting other people’s blessings instead of your own.

— Harold Coffin

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44. The Thief Who Became a Disciple

One evening as Shichiri Kojun was reciting sutras a thief with a sharp sword entered, demanding either money or his life.

Shichiri told him: “Do not disturb me. You can find the money in that drawer.” Then he resumed his recitation.

A little while afterwards he stopped and called: “Don’t take it all. I need some to pay taxes with tomorrow.”

The intruder gathered up most of the money and started to leave. “Thank a person when you receive a gift,” Shichiri added. The man thanked him and made off.

A few days afterwards the fellow was caught and confessed, among others, the offence against Shichiri. When Shichiri was called as a witness he said: “This man is no thief, at least as far as I am concerned. I gave him money and he thanked me for it.”

After he had finished his prison term, the man went to Shichiri and became his disciple.

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Buddhist Explanation of Karma

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The steps of the Noble Eightfold Path are Right Understanding, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration.

— Buddha

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The Rules for being Human

01. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s the only thing you are sure to keep for the rest of this life.

02. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called “Life On Planet Earth”. Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher.

03. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation. “Failures” are as much a part of the process as “successes”.

04. A lesson is repeated until learned. It is presented to you in various forms until you learn then you can go on to the next lesson.

05. If you don’t learn easy lessons, they get harder. External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state. When you learn inner obstructions, your outside world changes. Pain is how the universe gets your attention.

06. You will know you’ve learned a lesson when your actions change. Wisdom is practice. A little of something is better
than a lot of nothing.

07. “There” is no better than “here.” When your “there” becomes a “here” you will simply obtain another “there” that again looks better than “here.”

08. Others are only a mirror of you. You cannot love or hate something about another unless it reflects something you love or hate
about yourself.

09. Your life is up to you. Life provides the canvas; you do the painting. Take charge of your life-or someone else will.

010. You always get what you want. Your subconscious rightfully determines what energies, experiences and people you attract therefore, the only foolproof way to know what you want, is to see what you have. There are no victims, only students.

011. There is no right or wrong, but there are consequences. Moralizing doesn’t help. Judgments only hold the patterns in place. Just do your best.

012. Your answers lie inside you. Children need guidance from others; as we mature; we trust our hearts, where the Laws of Spirit are written. You know more than you have heard read or been told. All you need to do is to look, listen and trust.

013. You will forget all this.

014. You can remember any time you wish.

From the Los Angeles Resources Newspaper, March 1994