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Originally Posted by costello
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.  |
I have a cabinet in the bathroom with my personal things and my housemates have their place for their things under the bathroom sink but it seems that one of the housemates has been going in my cabinet and using my stuff. It's only one item and really a trivial item but the point is she's in my stuff. I'm on a fixed income and budget myself and don't have the money to be supporting others so depending how I look at it, it can be a big deal. This is why I want to learn the eastern philosophy of patience. I have found that Asian countries can lie and wait for years until the most opportune time manifests for them to act upon unlike "out of sight, out of mind" Westerners. So I would like myself to adapt the "lie and wait" mindset that when my stuff runs out she will have no more. I will replenish it but just no longer put it in the bathroom cabinet. I'm an impulsive person so this is a huge task for me.
So on to research Thich Nhat Hanh and any others that hopefully will ring true to me. Thanks, Costello, for pointing me in a direction.