098-Gifts to my self part 4 - Buddhism in daily life

Gifts to my self part 4


Have you already read the first parts of my series "Gifts to my
ego" click. Read on here:


14. friendships


If you really want to give yourself a gift, you should cherish
your friendships, take care of your friends, their concerns,
their lives. But you should also build up a friendship with your
own self, look at yourself in the mirror with goodwill,
consciously pay attention to your voice, take yourself "in your
arms", do everything possible to reduce all possible aversions
against yourself in any case, if possible build up friendship and
even self-love. Only those who are at peace with themselves can
set out on the path to enlightenment, emulate the Buddha, follow.
Treat yourself at least as well as you treat your best friend,
give yourself the gift.


15. happiness


Probably the most important gift that you can give yourself, that
is happiness, because you are on a good path, on the pathless
path, towards the goalless gate, where a landless land awaits all
those who have awakened in time, who have not allowed themselves
to be blinded, who have renounced suffering because they have
made the decision to do so. Happiness is a spiritual emotion that
cannot be bought, cannot be given away, cannot be inherited,
cannot be earned. Those who have learned to truly let go are
already very close to awakening, they will experience
all-encompassing happiness. Because happiness is due to us
humans, it is a prerogative of those who do not want or desire
more, who have come to terms with fate, because they can't change
anything about it anyway. Take from the everyday things of life
your happiest moments, enjoy the flowers by the wayside, the
little hugs, the warmth of the air, the coolness of the breeze,
the taste of the food, trivial things that you often just take
for granted.


16. a pure mind


Your mind should be like a beautiful garden, pure and pleasing,
always tended, full of flowers, trees and shrubs, in the center a
small temple with an enchanting statue of the Teacher of all
Teachers, mindful people meeting in the temple complex
imaginatively built in your mind palace.


Thoughts here are the seeds that plan, nurture and cherish the
complex, bad thoughts make the complex decay, good ones improve
the ensemble, depending on the mindset, a work of art or a cellar
hole is created.


Take care of the purity of your mind, of the garden, of the
buildings, build a temple in your thought palace, give yourself
peace.


The path is the goal!





Those who live on right food, who are not bound to any property,
who find their noble home in the incomprehensible emptiness,
whose way is hard to fathom like a bird's path in the air.


- Buddha - "The Enlightened One" - honorary name of Siddharta
Gautama - 560 to 480





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