050-You I take - Buddhism in daily life

To let a person into one's life, that requires a lot of energy, a
lot of courage and almost unlimited confidence.


It is not necessarily a Buddhist approach to sleep around, to
constantly change partners, according to the philosophy of the
sublime, a moral life is right.


If you can stand a week with a person, you can also spend a month
with the person, even a year, and in consequence then a whole
life.


"One" should not use people and living beings like shirts, but if
one "takes" someone (for a day, a month, or a year), then
consequences, obligations, common goals arise from it.


Today's fun society sees it quite differently, after a while
people just "divorce", they go separate ways, prosperity allows
the free development of personality. Our ancestors saw things
completely differently, here the (marriage) partners were a
community of fate, also a community of prey, fun was so not on
the game plan. Certainly we are allowed to have fun in life, but
don't we become jaded, hollow and unhappy by the eternal
separating and coming together?


Can I still find a better partner? Or a younger girlfriend? A
better earning boyfriend? Or a prettier woman? A taller man?


Sure, we can go looking for a partner again and again, fall in
love over and over again, but is that really love? Or just the
longing for "being loved"? Wouldn't it be nicer if we didn't use
people, but could keep the partner we originally took?


When I met my girlfriend at the time, it hit me like a bolt of
lightning. I saw her, and I knew that I loved this woman, the
moment I saw her for the first time. Already at that time it was
clear to me that I must not run away from here, that I want to
honor this relationship, if I now say "I'll take you", then it is
meant honestly, it is not a game, not a "stopover" to something
"better", no, then clear consequences follow here. Well, I wanted
her, she wanted me, today we are a couple.


Nowadays we say "I'll take you" far too easily, without being
aware of the consequences, without even thinking about the
responsibility that comes with it. By the way, this is true for
all living beings, for which we formulate a "I'll take you" at
will, no matter if we "acquire" a dog, or buy a bird, here lies a
clear commitment to this living being (or human being).


When was the last time you said "I'll take you"? Did you mean it?


The way is the goal!





He is steadfast in striving, responsible in striving for
wholesome conditions


- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before
the year zero





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