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Old Jun 07, 2012, 06:05 AM
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Originally Posted by cybermember View Post
I would like to learn the eastern philosophy of patience.
I've been working on that, cyber. It's helpful if you work at it. Thich Nhat Hanh compares mindfulness to a hammer for a carpenter. If you give a carpenter a hammer, he doesn't set it on an altar and worship it. He uses it. It's a tool. Same with mindfulness. It's a tool meant to be used. Too many people, IMO, read about the tool, but never pick it up and use it - or at least not enough to get good at it. They set it on an altar and worship it.

Now I'm off to do my morning meditation.
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