What the.....?

[WhamBam]

Well done WB, not there so of course cannot know the why's and wherefore's.

Got a friend to check things out for you and so far, so good.

Not speculating, judging or jumping to conclusions.

Keeping an open mind until you return when all will hopefully become clear and you will know what action to take.

There's not many of your good hearted sort around.

I sincerely hope that the end of the story is a good one.

Cheers.

PS

Are nice folk like you allowed on TVF?

Can I hide behind my blushing face?

And thanks very much for the sentiments

I will let tv know the final result(s) at some point when everything is resolved, of course.

[nithisa78]

Berate you, I want to man hug you.

[neeray]

This is such a complex story to take in when even the OP does not know all the details. Some good points have been made as to resolution, possibilities and outcome.

But it does make me think of "where there's smoke, there's fire".

I hope the author does a follow up and lets readers know the outcome.

[poweratradio]

Can't see anything tragic happened here.

You are in the UK, she wanted to make some money, she rented the condo.

She was embarrassed, so didn't want to get in contact with you......I understand her thinking.

BUT

She is a good woman, she took care of you in your difficult moments and she is respected by your friends.

Just forget and forgive, come back and make up with her......difficult to find good women around.

Once again your Sage advice as no/zero bearing in the real world. Quit hugging your trees and move back to city life and learn of the twists and turns happening in todays real world.

[poweratradio]

Just wonder if she ever showed you proof she really was a teacher ? I think you know the answer to your ?

Take steps to protect yourself what ever that is. You left and now she is looking for security, that it what many of these women do.

There is a whole heard of them in Pattaya playing bad mitten during the day and bragging about how many sponsors they have.

What is a sponsor ? A poor sucker that sends a girl money thinking she truly loves just him and has no idea that someone else is also sending her money.

Plenty of proof she is a teacher. Certificates. So many days with photos of her at school that day with the children, her wearing the clothes she left for work in. Her teacher friends. Her going to the school near the condo to do a demo. The work she prepares for school on her laptop.

This is more than likely about money or lack of it.

Totally agree about people sending money when they are 'sponsoring' a Thai 'lady'. Not something I'd be inclined to do.

'While sponsoring a Thai lady for a PR it is a requirement that you show support to Canadian Immigration.

[poweratradio]

Plenty more fish inthe sea...try the Big Bleu next time...

Plenty more sharks too

There we go... a thought... LOS = Land of Sharks !!

Why is it that your conversations with your uninvited tenant DID NOT shed any light on the whereabouts of your Filipino and or her current status and or dispositions toward the Condo lease holder YOU??? Starting to sense a troll post again with a total fantasy dream story.. La la la la!

[KarenfromAus]

I'd wait until you are back in your condo, arrive earlier, and check out the situation for yourself. I think maybe she didn't contact you about sub-letting as she was embarrassed about having no money, or maybe she felt sorry for the guy? You won't know all the story until you speak to her in person. And if she supported you in the past, at least give her the chance to explain.

[WhamBam]

Plenty more fish inthe sea...try the Big Bleu next time...

Plenty more sharks too

There we go... a thought... LOS = Land of Sharks !!

Why is it that your conversations with your uninvited tenant DID NOT shed any light on the whereabouts of your Filipino and or her current status and or dispositions toward the Condo lease holder YOU??? Starting to sense a troll post again with a total fantasy dream story.. La la la la!

If you must know, my conversations with the tenant did not shed light on the possible whereabouts of my ex, though I did ask if she was with him. He had no idea where she was. Also the condo management told him who I am and I told him who I was in relation to her. Okay?

As to being a Troll, I doubt I am seen as a Troll or a fantasist. But, each to their own way of thinking.

[WhamBam]

I'd wait until you are back in your condo, arrive earlier, and check out the situation for yourself. I think maybe she didn't contact you about sub-letting as she was embarrassed about having no money, or maybe she felt sorry for the guy? You won't know all the story until you speak to her in person. And if she supported you in the past, at least give her the chance to explain.

Yeah. I have to agree with those sentiments.

So far I have one side of the story. I'll be doing some more checks along the way where I can arrange those to9 see if what I have been told rings true. Though I do not like to impose on people too much, I have had offers of assistance via PM if I need them.

As I've said in earlier posts, the condo management are also being supportive.

Not being a particularly vindictive person unless I am pushed hard or pushed over a long period, I see no point in being angry and vindictive. Stress is a killer, especially when you have had one heart attack already.

So, yes, I will wait to allow all sides to have their say and I'll check out what they say where possible before reaching any decision.

I have had supportive PM's offering help and also supportive advice. I have listened to those too. What has been said in PM has been reasonable and constructive. And I thank those for that as well as those here in the topic itself.

I'll say again, so far it has cost me nothing financially, though the aggravation itself I could do without . Though life never runs smoothly all the time - that would be boring

[WhamBam]

Berate you, I want to man hug you.

Relaxing stuff.

Makes me think of whale songs.

I AM pleased you said man hug too

[laislica]

I read this recently and I am happy to say that I seem to have lived mostly by these principals for some time now and the rewards are amazing.

From what I have learned by reading posts from you. it sounds like you do too.

You are spot on in your observation that stress is a killer.

Even continual mild stress takes it's toll and folk that allow that to continue in life start to age faster.

Anyway, blushing or not!

I hope you are healing well after the accident.

12 Pieces Of Buddhist Wisdom That Will Transform Your Life

1. LIVE WITH COMPASSION
Compassion is one of the most revered qualities in Buddhism and great compassion is a sign of a highly realized human being.
Compassion doesn’t just help the world at large, and it isn’t just about the fact that it’s the right thing to do. Compassion, and seeking to understand those around you, can transform your life for a number of reasons.
First, self-compassion is altogether critical towards finding peace within yourself. By learning to forgive yourself and accepting that you’re human you can heal deep wounds bring yourself back from difficult challenges.
Next, we can often be tortured because of the fact that we don’t completely understand why people do certain things.
Compassion is understanding the basic goodness in all people and then seeking to discover that basic goodness in specific people. Because of this, it helps you from going through the often mental torture we experience because we don’t understand the actions of others.
But even more than that, expressing compassion is the very act of connecting wholeheartedly with others, and simply connecting in this way can be a great source of joy for us.
The reasons for practicing compassion are numerous and powerful. Seek to live in a way that you treat everyone you meet as you would yourself. Once you begin trying to do this, it will seem altogether impossible. But keep at it, and you’ll realize the full power of living with compassion.

2. CONNECT WITH OTHERS AND NURTURE THOSE CONNECTIONS
In Buddhism, a community of practitioners is called a “sangha”. A sangha is a community of monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen who practice together in peace towards the united “goal” of realizing greater awakening, not only for themselves but for all beings.
The sangha is a principle which much of the world can greatly benefit from. People come together in groups all the time, but it’s usually for the purpose of creating monetary riches or obtaining substantial power and rarely towards the united goal o1f attaining peace, happiness, and realizing greater wisdom.
The principle of the sangha can be expressed in your own life in many ways. The sangha is ultimately just one way of looking at life, through the lens of the individual “expressions” of the totality.
By living in a way that you’re fully aware of the power of connecting with others, whether it’s one person or a group of 100, and seeking to nurture those relationships in the appropriate way, you can transform your life in ways that will pay dividends for years to come.

3. WAKE UP
One of the most powerful points on this list, the power of simply living in a way that you’re fully awake to every moment of your life pretty much couldn’t be exaggerated even if I tried.
Mindfulness, greater awareness, paying attention, whatever you want to call it- it changes every facet of your life and in every way. It’s as simple as that.
Strive to live fully awake to each moment of your daily life and overcome your greatest personal struggles, find a great sense of peace and joy, and realize the greatest lessons life can teach you as a result of living fully awake to the present moment.

4. LIVE DEEPLY
To live deeply, in a way that you become keenly aware of the precious nature of life, is to begin down the path of true peace and happiness.
Why? Because to live in this way is to gradually become aware of the true nature of the world. This will happen essentially in “sections” of the whole, such as realizing your interconnectedness (you begin to see how everything is connected to everything else) and impermanence (you begin to see how everything is ever-changing, constantly dying only to be reborn in another form).
These realizations are the bread and butter of Buddhism and all spiritual practice. These “sections of the whole” are fragments of the ultimate realization, ways for us to understand that which can’t be fully understood in the traditional sense.
By living in a way that you seek to realize these various “qualities of the ultimate” you find greater and greater peace in realizing the natural way of things. This cultivates in us the ability to savour every moment of life, to find peace in even the most mundane activities, as well as the ability to transform your typically “negative” experiences into something altogether nourishing and healing.

5. CHANGE YOURSELF, CHANGE THE WORLD
Buddhists understand that you can hardly help another before you help yourself. But this isn’t referring to you gaining power or riches before you can help others, or living in a way that you ignore others.
This is mostly referring to the fact that because we’re all interconnected, by you helping yourself you create an exponentially positive effect on the rest of the world.
If you want to make an impact on the world, don’t falsely convince yourself that it’s “you or them”. You don’t need to drag yourself through the mud to help those around you. If you do this, you’ll greatly hamper your ability to create a positive impact.
At the deepest level of understanding, by making it about you you’re also making it about them because you know there’s no separating “you” and “them”.
Take care of yourself and seek to be more than just a help, but an example of how to live for others to follow and you’ll create waves of exponential possibility that inspires others to do the same.

6. EMBRACE DEATH
Death is an often taboo topic in Western society. We do everything we can to not only avoid the subject, but pretend that it doesn’t even exist.
The reality is, this is really unfortunate and in no way helps us lead better lives. Becoming keenly aware of your own impermanence and deeply understanding the nature of death with regards to our interconnectedness are both things which can help us find great peace.
In Buddhism, students in many sects at one point or another “meditate on the corpse” as it were (a practice which is said to have originated at least as far back as the Buddha’s lifetime).
This is literally what it sounds like. They meditate on the image of a corpse slowing decomposing and imagine that process through to its end, eventually resulting in a deep and profound realization on the true nature of death.
That might sound a little intense to you, but the truth is, if you live you’re entire life acting as if you’re never going to die or ignoring your own impermanence then you won’t ever be able to find true peace within yourself.
You don’t necessarily have to meditate on the image of a corpse, but simply opening up to yourself about death so that you’re no longer shielding it from your mind (which you’re likely doing unconsciously, as that’s how most of us were brought up in the West) can begin to be a great source of peace and help you appreciate the many joys in your everyday life.
A true appreciation for life can never be fully realized until you come face-to-face with your own impermanence. But once you do this, the world opens up in a new and profound way.

7. YOUR FOOD IS (VERY) SPECIAL
Buddhist meditative practice, particularly mindfulness and contemplation, helps you realize the precious nature of the food in front of you. Indeed, with how integral a part food plays in our lives, to transform our relationship with food is to transform a key aspect of our entire lives, both now and in the future.
By contemplating on the food in front of us, for example, we can come to realize the vast system of interconnectedness that is our life, and how our food coming to be on our dinner plate as it is depended on numerous elements coming to be.
This helps us to deepen our relationship with food, cultivate a deep sense of gratitude before each meal, and learn to respect the delicate but ever-pressing balance that is life.

8. UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF GIVING
Giving is more than the act of giving Christmas and Birthday gifts; it’s also about those gifts which we give each and every day which we don’t typically see as gifts at all.
Buddhists hold a very deep understanding of the nature of giving, particularly in that life is a constant play between the act of giving and receiving. This doesn’t just help us find peace in understanding the way of the world around us, but helps us realize the amazing gifts we all have within us that we can give others in every moment, such as our love, compassion, and presence.

9. WORK TO DISARM THE EGO
The easiest way to sum up all “spiritual” practice is this: spirituality is the act of coming in touch with the ultimate reality or the ground of being, and as a result spiritual practice is the act of overcoming those obstacles which keep us from realizing that.
The primary obstacle in our way? The ego.
To put it short and sweet, the reason the ego is the major obstacle in spiritual practice, or simply the practice of finding true peace and happiness (whatever you choose to call it, it’s all the same), is because it’s very function is to pull you away from the ground of your being by convincing you that you’re this separate self.
The process of unravelling the ego can take time, as it’s something which has been with us, intertwined with us, for years. But it’s infinitely rewarding and altogether necessary if we want to realize our best life.

10. REMOVE THE 3 POISONS
Life is filled with vices, things which attempt to bind us to unwholesome ways of living and therefore do the very opposite of cultivate peace, joy, and greater realization in our lives. Among these, the 3 poisons are some of the most powerful. The 3 poisons are:
1. Greed
2. Hatred
3. Delusion
Together, these 3 poisons are responsible for the majority of the pain and suffering we experience as a collective species. It’s perfectly normal to be affected by each of these poisons throughout your life, so don’t knock yourself for falling for them.
Instead, simply accept that they’re something you’re experiencing and begin working to remove them from your life. This can take time, but it’s a key aspect on the path towards realizing true peace and happiness.

11. RIGHT LIVELIHOOD
We should all strive to work and make our living in a way that’s more “conscious” or aware. This generally means not selling harmful items such as guns, drugs, and services that harm other people, but it goes deeper than that.
There are ultimately two aspects to this: making a living by doing something which doesn’t inhibit your own ability to realize peace and making a living doing something which doesn’t inhibit others ability to realize peace.
Facing this can lead to some interesting situations for some people, and as Thich Nhat Hanh has mentioned this is a collective effort as opposed to a solely personal one (the butcher isn’t a butcher only because he decided to be, but because there is a demand from people for meat to be neatly packaged and made available for them to be purchased from supermarkets), but you should strive to do your best.
Following the teaching on right livelihood can help you realize the harmful effect that your own work is having on you and therefore coming up with a solution can result in a largely positive shift in your life as a whole. Only you can decide if a change needs to happen though.
Whatever the case, seek to make a living doing something that promotes the peace and happiness of yourself and those around you as much as possible.

12. REALIZE NON-ATTACHMENT
This is a difficult point to put into so few words, but a profound one I felt would be greatly beneficial to mention nonetheless.
To realize non-attachment in a Buddhist sense doesn’t mean to abandon your friends and family and live alone for the rest of your life, never truly living again just so that you don’t become attached to these desires.
Non-attachment refers to living in a way that you exist in the natural flow of life and generally living a typical modern life, building a family, working, etc., while simultaneously not being attached to any of these things. It simply means to live in a way that you’ve become aware of and accepted the impermanence of all things in this life and live in a way that you’re ever-aware of this fact.
It’s perfectly normal for a Zen student in Japan, once having completed his training, to actually de-robe and go “back into the world” so to speak. This is because, once they’ve reached this level of realization, they see the beauty in all things and are compelled to live fully absorbed in all the beauty and wonders of this life. From this point on, they can truly “live life to the fullest”, while not clinging to any of these things.
Keep in mind, this doesn’t mean that you stop feeling emotions. On the contrary, these emotions are welcomed and expected, and fully experienced with mindfulness in the moment of their impact. But this is simply the natural course of things.
Once these emotions subside though, and when we have no mental formations or obstructions to block our path, a natural healing process takes place that heals the wound and allows us to continue on living in peace and joy instead of dragging us down into darkness.

Source:
“12 Pieces of Buddhist Wisdom That Will Transform Your Life,” from buddhaimonia.com, by Matt Valentine

Founder of WorldTruth.Tv and WomansVibe.com Eddie (4137 Posts)
Eddie L. is the founder and owner of WorldTruth.TV. This website is dedicated to educating and informing people with articles on powerful and concealed information from around the world. I have spent the last 30+ years researching Bible, History, Secret Societies, and Symbolism

[benalibina]

I read this recently and I am happy to say that I seem to have lived mostly by these principals for some time now and the rewards are amazing.

From what I have learned by reading posts from you. it sounds like you do too.

You are spot on in your observation that stress is a killer.

Even continual mild stress takes it's toll and folk that allow that to continue in life start to age faster.

Anyway, blushing or not!

I hope you are healing well after the accident.

12 Pieces Of Buddhist Wisdom That Will Transform Your Life

1. LIVE WITH COMPASSION

Compassion is one of the most revered qualities in Buddhism and great compassion is a sign of a highly realized human being.

Compassion doesnt just help the world at large, and it isnt just about the fact that its the right thing to do. Compassion, and seeking to understand those around you, can transform your life for a number of reasons.

First, self-compassion is altogether critical towards finding peace within yourself. By learning to forgive yourself and accepting that youre human you can heal deep wounds bring yourself back from difficult challenges.

Next, we can often be tortured because of the fact that we dont completely understand why people do certain things.

Compassion is understanding the basic goodness in all people and then seeking to discover that basic goodness in specific people. Because of this, it helps you from going through the often mental torture we experience because we dont understand the actions of others.

But even more than that, expressing compassion is the very act of connecting wholeheartedly with others, and simply connecting in this way can be a great source of joy for us.

The reasons for practicing compassion are numerous and powerful. Seek to live in a way that you treat everyone you meet as you would yourself. Once you begin trying to do this, it will seem altogether impossible. But keep at it, and youll realize the full power of living with compassion.

2. CONNECT WITH OTHERS AND NURTURE THOSE CONNECTIONS

In Buddhism, a community of practitioners is called a sangha. A sangha is a community of monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen who practice together in peace towards the united goal of realizing greater awakening, not only for themselves but for all beings.

The sangha is a principle which much of the world can greatly benefit from. People come together in groups all the time, but its usually for the purpose of creating monetary riches or obtaining substantial power and rarely towards the united goal o1f attaining peace, happiness, and realizing greater wisdom.

The principle of the sangha can be expressed in your own life in many ways. The sangha is ultimately just one way of looking at life, through the lens of the individual expressions of the totality.

By living in a way that youre fully aware of the power of connecting with others, whether its one person or a group of 100, and seeking to nurture those relationships in the appropriate way, you can transform your life in ways that will pay dividends for years to come.

3. WAKE UP

One of the most powerful points on this list, the power of simply living in a way that youre fully awake to every moment of your life pretty much couldnt be exaggerated even if I tried.

Mindfulness, greater awareness, paying attention, whatever you want to call it- it changes every facet of your life and in every way. Its as simple as that.

Strive to live fully awake to each moment of your daily life and overcome your greatest personal struggles, find a great sense of peace and joy, and realize the greatest lessons life can teach you as a result of living fully awake to the present moment.

4. LIVE DEEPLY

To live deeply, in a way that you become keenly aware of the precious nature of life, is to begin down the path of true peace and happiness.

Why? Because to live in this way is to gradually become aware of the true nature of the world. This will happen essentially in sections of the whole, such as realizing your interconnectedness (you begin to see how everything is connected to everything else) and impermanence (you begin to see how everything is ever-changing, constantly dying only to be reborn in another form).

These realizations are the bread and butter of Buddhism and all spiritual practice. These sections of the whole are fragments of the ultimate realization, ways for us to understand that which cant be fully understood in the traditional sense.

By living in a way that you seek to realize these various qualities of the ultimate you find greater and greater peace in realizing the natural way of things. This cultivates in us the ability to savour every moment of life, to find peace in even the most mundane activities, as well as the ability to transform your typically negative experiences into something altogether nourishing and healing.

5. CHANGE YOURSELF, CHANGE THE WORLD

Buddhists understand that you can hardly help another before you help yourself. But this isnt referring to you gaining power or riches before you can help others, or living in a way that you ignore others.

This is mostly referring to the fact that because were all interconnected, by you helping yourself you create an exponentially positive effect on the rest of the world.

If you want to make an impact on the world, dont falsely convince yourself that its you or them. You dont need to drag yourself through the mud to help those around you. If you do this, youll greatly hamper your ability to create a positive impact.

At the deepest level of understanding, by making it about you youre also making it about them because you know theres no separating you and them.

Take care of yourself and seek to be more than just a help, but an example of how to live for others to follow and youll create waves of exponential possibility that inspires others to do the same.

6. EMBRACE DEATH

Death is an often taboo topic in Western society. We do everything we can to not only avoid the subject, but pretend that it doesnt even exist.

The reality is, this is really unfortunate and in no way helps us lead better lives. Becoming keenly aware of your own impermanence and deeply understanding the nature of death with regards to our interconnectedness are both things which can help us find great peace.

In Buddhism, students in many sects at one point or another meditate on the corpse as it were (a practice which is said to have originated at least as far back as the Buddhas lifetime).

This is literally what it sounds like. They meditate on the image of a corpse slowing decomposing and imagine that process through to its end, eventually resulting in a deep and profound realization on the true nature of death.

That might sound a little intense to you, but the truth is, if you live youre entire life acting as if youre never going to die or ignoring your own impermanence then you wont ever be able to find true peace within yourself.

You dont necessarily have to meditate on the image of a corpse, but simply opening up to yourself about death so that youre no longer shielding it from your mind (which youre likely doing unconsciously, as thats how most of us were brought up in the West) can begin to be a great source of peace and help you appreciate the many joys in your everyday life.

A true appreciation for life can never be fully realized until you come face-to-face with your own impermanence. But once you do this, the world opens up in a new and profound way.

7. YOUR FOOD IS (VERY) SPECIAL

Buddhist meditative practice, particularly mindfulness and contemplation, helps you realize the precious nature of the food in front of you. Indeed, with how integral a part food plays in our lives, to transform our relationship with food is to transform a key aspect of our entire lives, both now and in the future.

By contemplating on the food in front of us, for example, we can come to realize the vast system of interconnectedness that is our life, and how our food coming to be on our dinner plate as it is depended on numerous elements coming to be.

This helps us to deepen our relationship with food, cultivate a deep sense of gratitude before each meal, and learn to respect the delicate but ever-pressing balance that is life.

8. UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF GIVING

Giving is more than the act of giving Christmas and Birthday gifts; its also about those gifts which we give each and every day which we dont typically see as gifts at all.

Buddhists hold a very deep understanding of the nature of giving, particularly in that life is a constant play between the act of giving and receiving. This doesnt just help us find peace in understanding the way of the world around us, but helps us realize the amazing gifts we all have within us that we can give others in every moment, such as our love, compassion, and presence.

9. WORK TO DISARM THE EGO

The easiest way to sum up all spiritual practice is this: spirituality is the act of coming in touch with the ultimate reality or the ground of being, and as a result spiritual practice is the act of overcoming those obstacles which keep us from realizing that.

The primary obstacle in our way? The ego.

To put it short and sweet, the reason the ego is the major obstacle in spiritual practice, or simply the practice of finding true peace and happiness (whatever you choose to call it, its all the same), is because its very function is to pull you away from the ground of your being by convincing you that youre this separate self.

The process of unravelling the ego can take time, as its something which has been with us, intertwined with us, for years. But its infinitely rewarding and altogether necessary if we want to realize our best life.

10. REMOVE THE 3 POISONS

Life is filled with vices, things which attempt to bind us to unwholesome ways of living and therefore do the very opposite of cultivate peace, joy, and greater realization in our lives. Among these, the 3 poisons are some of the most powerful. The 3 poisons are:

1. Greed

2. Hatred

3. Delusion

Together, these 3 poisons are responsible for the majority of the pain and suffering we experience as a collective species. Its perfectly normal to be affected by each of these poisons throughout your life, so dont knock yourself for falling for them.

Instead, simply accept that theyre something youre experiencing and begin working to remove them from your life. This can take time, but its a key aspect on the path towards realizing true peace and happiness.

11. RIGHT LIVELIHOOD

We should all strive to work and make our living in a way thats more conscious or aware. This generally means not selling harmful items such as guns, drugs, and services that harm other people, but it goes deeper than that.

There are ultimately two aspects to this: making a living by doing something which doesnt inhibit your own ability to realize peace and making a living doing something which doesnt inhibit others ability to realize peace.

Facing this can lead to some interesting situations for some people, and as Thich Nhat Hanh has mentioned this is a collective effort as opposed to a solely personal one (the butcher isnt a butcher only because he decided to be, but because there is a demand from people for meat to be neatly packaged and made available for them to be purchased from supermarkets), but you should strive to do your best.

Following the teaching on right livelihood can help you realize the harmful effect that your own work is having on you and therefore coming up with a solution can result in a largely positive shift in your life as a whole. Only you can decide if a change needs to happen though.

Whatever the case, seek to make a living doing something that promotes the peace and happiness of yourself and those around you as much as possible.

12. REALIZE NON-ATTACHMENT

This is a difficult point to put into so few words, but a profound one I felt would be greatly beneficial to mention nonetheless.

To realize non-attachment in a Buddhist sense doesnt mean to abandon your friends and family and live alone for the rest of your life, never truly living again just so that you dont become attached to these desires.

Non-attachment refers to living in a way that you exist in the natural flow of life and generally living a typical modern life, building a family, working, etc., while simultaneously not being attached to any of these things. It simply means to live in a way that youve become aware of and accepted the impermanence of all things in this life and live in a way that youre ever-aware of this fact.

Its perfectly normal for a Zen student in Japan, once having completed his training, to actually de-robe and go back into the world so to speak. This is because, once theyve reached this level of realization, they see the beauty in all things and are compelled to live fully absorbed in all the beauty and wonders of this life. From this point on, they can truly live life to the fullest, while not clinging to any of these things.

Keep in mind, this doesnt mean that you stop feeling emotions. On the contrary, these emotions are welcomed and expected, and fully experienced with mindfulness in the moment of their impact. But this is simply the natural course of things.

Once these emotions subside though, and when we have no mental formations or obstructions to block our path, a natural healing process takes place that heals the wound and allows us to continue on living in peace and joy instead of dragging us down into darkness.

Source:

12 Pieces of Buddhist Wisdom That Will Transform Your Life, from buddhaimonia.com, by Matt Valentine

Founder of WorldTruth.Tv and WomansVibe.com Eddie (4137 Posts)

Eddie L. is the founder and owner of WorldTruth.TV. This website is dedicated to educating and informing people with articles on powerful and concealed information from around the world. I have spent the last 30+ years researching Bible, History, Secret Societies, and Symbolism

Thanks for the interesting read.

I now understand why most of my inlaws converted to Christianity.....too high a task...

[Sleekjub]

This is nothing. You should see all the filipinos who are working in Singapore.

[WhamBam]

I read this recently and I am happy to say that I seem to have lived mostly by these principals for some time now and the rewards are amazing.

From what I have learned by reading posts from you. it sounds like you do too.

You are spot on in your observation that stress is a killer.

Even continual mild stress takes it's toll and folk that allow that to continue in life start to age faster.

Anyway, blushing or not!

I hope you are healing well after the accident.

12 Pieces Of Buddhist Wisdom That Will Transform Your Life

1. LIVE WITH COMPASSION

Compassion is one of the most revered qualities in Buddhism and great compassion is a sign of a highly realized human being.

Compassion doesn’t just help the world at large, and it isn’t just about the fact that it’s the right thing to do. Compassion, and seeking to understand those around you, can transform your life for a number of reasons.

First, self-compassion is altogether critical towards finding peace within yourself. By learning to forgive yourself and accepting that you’re human you can heal deep wounds bring yourself back from difficult challenges.

Next, we can often be tortured because of the fact that we don’t completely understand why people do certain things.

Compassion is understanding the basic goodness in all people and then seeking to discover that basic goodness in specific people. Because of this, it helps you from going through the often mental torture we experience because we don’t understand the actions of others.

But even more than that, expressing compassion is the very act of connecting wholeheartedly with others, and simply connecting in this way can be a great source of joy for us.

The reasons for practicing compassion are numerous and powerful. Seek to live in a way that you treat everyone you meet as you would yourself. Once you begin trying to do this, it will seem altogether impossible. But keep at it, and you’ll realize the full power of living with compassion.

2. CONNECT WITH OTHERS AND NURTURE THOSE CONNECTIONS

In Buddhism, a community of practitioners is called a “sangha”. A sangha is a community of monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen who practice together in peace towards the united “goal” of realizing greater awakening, not only for themselves but for all beings.

The sangha is a principle which much of the world can greatly benefit from. People come together in groups all the time, but it’s usually for the purpose of creating monetary riches or obtaining substantial power and rarely towards the united goal o1f attaining peace, happiness, and realizing greater wisdom.

The principle of the sangha can be expressed in your own life in many ways. The sangha is ultimately just one way of looking at life, through the lens of the individual “expressions” of the totality.

By living in a way that you’re fully aware of the power of connecting with others, whether it’s one person or a group of 100, and seeking to nurture those relationships in the appropriate way, you can transform your life in ways that will pay dividends for years to come.

3. WAKE UP

One of the most powerful points on this list, the power of simply living in a way that you’re fully awake to every moment of your life pretty much couldn’t be exaggerated even if I tried.

Mindfulness, greater awareness, paying attention, whatever you want to call it- it changes every facet of your life and in every way. It’s as simple as that.

Strive to live fully awake to each moment of your daily life and overcome your greatest personal struggles, find a great sense of peace and joy, and realize the greatest lessons life can teach you as a result of living fully awake to the present moment.

4. LIVE DEEPLY

To live deeply, in a way that you become keenly aware of the precious nature of life, is to begin down the path of true peace and happiness.

Why? Because to live in this way is to gradually become aware of the true nature of the world. This will happen essentially in “sections” of the whole, such as realizing your interconnectedness (you begin to see how everything is connected to everything else) and impermanence (you begin to see how everything is ever-changing, constantly dying only to be reborn in another form).

These realizations are the bread and butter of Buddhism and all spiritual practice. These “sections of the whole” are fragments of the ultimate realization, ways for us to understand that which can’t be fully understood in the traditional sense.

By living in a way that you seek to realize these various “qualities of the ultimate” you find greater and greater peace in realizing the natural way of things. This cultivates in us the ability to savour every moment of life, to find peace in even the most mundane activities, as well as the ability to transform your typically “negative” experiences into something altogether nourishing and healing.

5. CHANGE YOURSELF, CHANGE THE WORLD

Buddhists understand that you can hardly help another before you help yourself. But this isn’t referring to you gaining power or riches before you can help others, or living in a way that you ignore others.

This is mostly referring to the fact that because we’re all interconnected, by you helping yourself you create an exponentially positive effect on the rest of the world.

If you want to make an impact on the world, don’t falsely convince yourself that it’s “you or them”. You don’t need to drag yourself through the mud to help those around you. If you do this, you’ll greatly hamper your ability to create a positive impact.

At the deepest level of understanding, by making it about you you’re also making it about them because you know there’s no separating “you” and “them”.

Take care of yourself and seek to be more than just a help, but an example of how to live for others to follow and you’ll create waves of exponential possibility that inspires others to do the same.

6. EMBRACE DEATH

Death is an often taboo topic in Western society. We do everything we can to not only avoid the subject, but pretend that it doesn’t even exist.

The reality is, this is really unfortunate and in no way helps us lead better lives. Becoming keenly aware of your own impermanence and deeply understanding the nature of death with regards to our interconnectedness are both things which can help us find great peace.

In Buddhism, students in many sects at one point or another “meditate on the corpse” as it were (a practice which is said to have originated at least as far back as the Buddha’s lifetime).

This is literally what it sounds like. They meditate on the image of a corpse slowing decomposing and imagine that process through to its end, eventually resulting in a deep and profound realization on the true nature of death.

That might sound a little intense to you, but the truth is, if you live you’re entire life acting as if you’re never going to die or ignoring your own impermanence then you won’t ever be able to find true peace within yourself.

You don’t necessarily have to meditate on the image of a corpse, but simply opening up to yourself about death so that you’re no longer shielding it from your mind (which you’re likely doing unconsciously, as that’s how most of us were brought up in the West) can begin to be a great source of peace and help you appreciate the many joys in your everyday life.

A true appreciation for life can never be fully realized until you come face-to-face with your own impermanence. But once you do this, the world opens up in a new and profound way.

7. YOUR FOOD IS (VERY) SPECIAL

Buddhist meditative practice, particularly mindfulness and contemplation, helps you realize the precious nature of the food in front of you. Indeed, with how integral a part food plays in our lives, to transform our relationship with food is to transform a key aspect of our entire lives, both now and in the future.

By contemplating on the food in front of us, for example, we can come to realize the vast system of interconnectedness that is our life, and how our food coming to be on our dinner plate as it is depended on numerous elements coming to be.

This helps us to deepen our relationship with food, cultivate a deep sense of gratitude before each meal, and learn to respect the delicate but ever-pressing balance that is life.

8. UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF GIVING

Giving is more than the act of giving Christmas and Birthday gifts; it’s also about those gifts which we give each and every day which we don’t typically see as gifts at all.

Buddhists hold a very deep understanding of the nature of giving, particularly in that life is a constant play between the act of giving and receiving. This doesn’t just help us find peace in understanding the way of the world around us, but helps us realize the amazing gifts we all have within us that we can give others in every moment, such as our love, compassion, and presence.

9. WORK TO DISARM THE EGO

The easiest way to sum up all “spiritual” practice is this: spirituality is the act of coming in touch with the ultimate reality or the ground of being, and as a result spiritual practice is the act of overcoming those obstacles which keep us from realizing that.

The primary obstacle in our way? The ego.

To put it short and sweet, the reason the ego is the major obstacle in spiritual practice, or simply the practice of finding true peace and happiness (whatever you choose to call it, it’s all the same), is because it’s very function is to pull you away from the ground of your being by convincing you that you’re this separate self.

The process of unravelling the ego can take time, as it’s something which has been with us, intertwined with us, for years. But it’s infinitely rewarding and altogether necessary if we want to realize our best life.

10. REMOVE THE 3 POISONS

Life is filled with vices, things which attempt to bind us to unwholesome ways of living and therefore do the very opposite of cultivate peace, joy, and greater realization in our lives. Among these, the 3 poisons are some of the most powerful. The 3 poisons are:

1. Greed

2. Hatred

3. Delusion

Together, these 3 poisons are responsible for the majority of the pain and suffering we experience as a collective species. It’s perfectly normal to be affected by each of these poisons throughout your life, so don’t knock yourself for falling for them.

Instead, simply accept that they’re something you’re experiencing and begin working to remove them from your life. This can take time, but it’s a key aspect on the path towards realizing true peace and happiness.

11. RIGHT LIVELIHOOD

We should all strive to work and make our living in a way that’s more “conscious” or aware. This generally means not selling harmful items such as guns, drugs, and services that harm other people, but it goes deeper than that.

There are ultimately two aspects to this: making a living by doing something which doesn’t inhibit your own ability to realize peace and making a living doing something which doesn’t inhibit others ability to realize peace.

Facing this can lead to some interesting situations for some people, and as Thich Nhat Hanh has mentioned this is a collective effort as opposed to a solely personal one (the butcher isn’t a butcher only because he decided to be, but because there is a demand from people for meat to be neatly packaged and made available for them to be purchased from supermarkets), but you should strive to do your best.

Following the teaching on right livelihood can help you realize the harmful effect that your own work is having on you and therefore coming up with a solution can result in a largely positive shift in your life as a whole. Only you can decide if a change needs to happen though.

Whatever the case, seek to make a living doing something that promotes the peace and happiness of yourself and those around you as much as possible.

12. REALIZE NON-ATTACHMENT

This is a difficult point to put into so few words, but a profound one I felt would be greatly beneficial to mention nonetheless.

To realize non-attachment in a Buddhist sense doesn’t mean to abandon your friends and family and live alone for the rest of your life, never truly living again just so that you don’t become attached to these desires.

Non-attachment refers to living in a way that you exist in the natural flow of life and generally living a typical modern life, building a family, working, etc., while simultaneously not being attached to any of these things. It simply means to live in a way that you’ve become aware of and accepted the impermanence of all things in this life and live in a way that you’re ever-aware of this fact.

It’s perfectly normal for a Zen student in Japan, once having completed his training, to actually de-robe and go “back into the world” so to speak. This is because, once they’ve reached this level of realization, they see the beauty in all things and are compelled to live fully absorbed in all the beauty and wonders of this life. From this point on, they can truly “live life to the fullest”, while not clinging to any of these things.

Keep in mind, this doesn’t mean that you stop feeling emotions. On the contrary, these emotions are welcomed and expected, and fully experienced with mindfulness in the moment of their impact. But this is simply the natural course of things.

Once these emotions subside though, and when we have no mental formations or obstructions to block our path, a natural healing process takes place that heals the wound and allows us to continue on living in peace and joy instead of dragging us down into darkness.

Source:

“12 Pieces of Buddhist Wisdom That Will Transform Your Life,” from buddhaimonia.com, by Matt Valentine

Founder of WorldTruth.Tv and WomansVibe.com Eddie (4137 Posts)

Eddie L. is the founder and owner of WorldTruth.TV. This website is dedicated to educating and informing people with articles on powerful and concealed information from around the world. I have spent the last 30+ years researching Bible, History, Secret Societies, and Symbolism

A bit heavy for me, I have to admit.

Personally, I prefer the simpler rule of thumb. That is :-

'Not doing to others what I would not like having done to me'.