Anyone who considers himself a good person is not really such a person. Anyone who considers himself a bad person is not such a bad person. Therefore, it is nothing more than proof of a clear mind when you see your illusions as illusions. Besides this, there are no illusions to destroy, and no truth to strive for.

🍀 Kodo Sawaki Roshi

Psychosomatics of grievances

If you are constantly offended, the result may be constant stress and depression. Any negative tends to accumulate and then result in health problems.

Our entire load of unprocessed grievances does not go away. It “settles” in the body.

What chronic diseases cause accumulated grievances:

- Unexpressed resentment: “There is a lump in the throat”, “Across the throat”, “A bone in the throat” - sore throat and laryngitis.

— Reluctance to face the truth: “My eyes wouldn’t see you,” “It hurts to look” — deterioration of vision.

- Manipulative resentment: “The heart is breaking”, “Like a knife to the heart” - disruptions in the functioning of the cardiovascular system.

But there is an antidote to resentment - the practice of forgiveness. How to let go of a grudge?

Determine who you are exactly offended by - yourself or others. Remember what and when could cause negativity in you, which you still have not experienced. Having realized, firmly decide to forgive the

offender, even despite all the pain. You can’t return the past, and you definitely won’t need pain in the future. Thoughts of grievances will return, do not give in to them. Repeat: “I have forgiven all this. I no longer have any complaints, I don’t take offense, I don’t want revenge.”

You can write a letter to the offender, express everything that you would like to, but could not. And then burn it and let go of the grudge. Work through every negative feeling this way.

The result is not the goal; Only our effort to make ourselves better has value. This path has no end.

🍀 Suzuki Shunryu

What is patience?

Practicing patience does not mean enduring suffering with clenched teeth like a hot sauna. This is not apathy or timidity when you are beaten, but you endure it because you are a coward. If you endure and then explode, this is also not patience.

Patience is when you do not allow your mind to be disturbed no matter what bad external condition you encounter. Only those who have wisdom can do this.

A wise person will not worry under any circumstances. If you worry, it means you don't have patience.

Patience makes your mind strong.

🍀 Geshe Jampa Tinley

End the anger

When you experience bad emotions, they take over you. Until you see this, you leave them room for further growth. But once you realize that you acted basely and disgustingly, did something unusual for you, everything can change. You will be able to come to the conclusion that it was not you who behaved this way, but your negative emotions that pushed you. Ask yourself: “Is this my normal behavior or is there something wrong with me? But if I behave unnaturally, why do I do this? Because I’m angry, hurt and want to cause trouble for the other person.” Therefore, the reason for your action is not you, but your anger, and it is necessary to get out of this situation. If you are convinced that it is all about anger, you must make a decision. Your duty to yourself is not to submit to the power of any bad emotions. Tell yourself: “I must escape the clutches of this terrible feeling - anger. I reject anger. I pray for protection from anger. I ask for help and blessings. Help me do this, bless me so

that I can put an end to anger, eradicate it along with the reasons that give rise to it, once and for all!”

Don't try to jump over your head. If on Friday you decided that you will not invite “Dr. Frankenstein” to visit you at least until Monday, and by Saturday you are already yearning for him, pray. Mentally imagine the light emanating from enlightened beings. Let this light fill your body and wash away from you all your filth, all hatred, all anger and irritability. Feel how all the bad things leave you. You are now happy, open and wise, and your body is filled with light. This meditation is thousands of years old. Great mentors and spiritual teachers have recommended its use to help ourselves and others overcome anger.

🍀 Rinpoche Nawang Gehlek

The most liberating thing is realizing that people will never “understand” you. People always carry their own image of "you".

🍀 Jeff Foster

The practical core of Buddhism consists of the following principles:

- Do not commit evil
- Do good
- All thoughts are pure

One Chan teacher was asked about the essence of Buddhist teachings, and when he listed the above principles, the interlocutor said with disappointment: “And a three-year-old child can fully understand this.” To which the Chan teacher replied: “And an eighty-year-old man will not be able to fully implement this.”

🍀 A.V. Chebunin

When you live in harmony with yourself, you are able to get along with others.

To be happy, you need to achieve perfection in the moral, social and spiritual spheres.

You should not strive only for physical health and the joys of life. One must persistently strive to control the mind. He who becomes a slave to his mind inevitably becomes weak, no matter how powerful he may be.

So you have to make the mind your obedient servant. The power of the mind is incomparable. It is from the mind that the most precious virtues come. If wealth is lost, it can be earned again. If health is lost, it can be restored with the help of a qualified doctor. But if human values ​​are lost, human life becomes a waste.

Human values ​​are the need of this time. They cannot be acquired solely from sacred texts and cannot be transmitted by learned masters. They come from within. When we develop noble thoughts and follow the path of truth in our daily lives, human values ​​blossom within us and protect us under all circumstances.

🍀 Sathya Sai Baba

How much time you spend studying each day is not as important as how regularly and focused you are in searching for answers to questions. If the teacher chews everything out for the student, he will live someone else’s life, with all the ensuing consequences. Everywhere your own experience is important, not the experience of others. The teacher can show you the path, but you still have to walk along it yourself.

If we manage to gain victory within, then the outside will take care of itself. And if there is confusion and anxiety in our souls, then even if we have a pleasant and comfortable life, we will not be able to enjoy what we have.

🍀 Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Some areas of your life are unbalanced and out of balance, but these same areas can be brought into a balanced state of being, and this is the main task before us. There are three causes of imbalance: ignorance, hatred and desire. But in themselves they are neither bad nor good. The concepts of good and evil do not apply here. Rather, we are dealing only with imbalance and balance. We do not limit ourselves to discussing the spiritual side of our life or its more prosaic side, but look at the whole of life. With unbalanced behavior, a person does not properly resolve his difficulties. His actions are inappropriate. One action runs counter to the other, and the overall effect turns out to be half-hearted. And all because the person is not fully aware of the situation, does not feel his presence in it. At each subsequent moment in time, he does everything not quite correctly, because before he has time to finish one task, he is already in a hurry to take on the next. This creates a kind of indigestion in the

mind because something is always left half-eaten, as if you were only half eating a fruit.


🍀 Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Achieving goals will not make you happier. You must love yourself even when things don't work out for you.

🍀 Andrew Matthews

Light to yourself

Gautama Buddha's last words were: Be your own light. Don't follow others, don't imitate, because imitation and following creates stupidity. You are born with an immense capacity for intelligence. You are born with light inside. Listen to that small, quiet voice inside and it will give you direction. Nobody else can give you direction, nobody else can model your life, because you are unique. There has never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be anyone exactly like you again. This is your glory, your splendor - that you are absolutely irreplaceable, that you are yourself and no one else.

By following others, you can instill a beautiful character in yourself, but you cannot achieve a beautiful consciousness, and unless you have a beautiful consciousness, you can never be free. You can continue to exchange one prison for another, you can continue to exchange one chain for another, one slavery for another. You may be a Hindu or a Muslim, a Christian or a Jain - it

will not help you. To be a Jain is to accept Mahavira as a role model. But there has never been anyone like Mahavira, and there never can be. By following Mahavira you will become a false entity. You will lose reality, you will lose all sincerity, you will no longer be true to yourself. You will become artificial, unnatural, and to be artificial, unnatural is the path of mediocrity, a fool, a fool.

Buddha defines wisdom as living in the light of one's own consciousness, and stupidity as following others, imitating others, becoming the shadow of someone else.

A true master creates masters, not followers. A true master throws you back to yourself. His whole effort is to make you independent of him, because you have been dependent for centuries and it has taken you nowhere. You still continue to stumble in the dark night of the soul.

Only your inner light can become the dawn. The false master convinces you to follow him, to imitate him, to be copied from him. A true master will not allow you to be a reprint, he wants you to be the original. He loves you! How can he force you to imitate? He feels compassion for you, he wants you to be extremely free - free from all external dependencies.

But the ordinary human being does not want to be free. It wants to be dependent. It wants someone to lead it. Why? - because then a person can shift all responsibility onto the shoulders of someone else. And the more responsibility you place on other people’s shoulders, the less likely it is that you will ever become free. It is responsibility, the challenge of responsibility, that generates wisdom.

A person must accept life - with all its problems. A person must go through life unprotected; he must find his way through research. Life is an opportunity, a challenge to find yourself. But the fool does not want to take the difficult path; the fool chooses to cut the corner. He says to himself, “Buddha has achieved—why should I care about this? I'll just watch how he behaves and imitate him. Jesus has reached, why should I seek and search? I may become just a shadow of Jesus. I can just follow him wherever he leads.”

But by following someone else, how are you going to become intelligent? You won't give your mind even the slightest chance to blossom. For intelligence to emerge, it takes a life of challenge, a life of adventure, a life that can take risks and move into the unknown. And only the mind can save you—no one else. Your own mind, keep in mind, your own awareness can become your nirvana.

Be a light to yourself and you will be wise; allow others to be your leaders, your guides, and you will remain stupid and constantly miss all the treasures of life - which could be yours.

🍀 Osho

Everyone is making a lot of noise about nothing.

🍀 Kodo Sawaki Roshi

Practice of mental cleansing of anger

Anger is the source of destructive rage, which leads to misfortunes and the most tragic consequences. Anger manifests itself in mistreatment of people, violence and even murder. If you want to succeed in your relationships, then you must make an effort to remove the poisoned arrow of anger from your inner consciousness.

The best antidote to anger is to practice calmness.

Calmness is the ability to control your emotions whenever you feel anger rising and building somewhere in the depths of your consciousness.

There are many ways to use calmness, but the best place to start is by recognizing that anger is destructive by its very nature and that you must let go of it.

When the will and desire to overcome anger appears in your consciousness, then you can consider that half the work has already been done.

3 stages of practicing calmness

Mindfulness is the development of alertness to angry thoughts.

Conscious breathing is delaying the reaction to emerging

anger, not allowing it to manifest itself in any actions.

Realizing calmness is changing your mood.

Awareness of Anger

To bring awareness to anger, you can try the proven practice of making lists:

First, make a list of everything that makes you anxious. Many people get angry when something goes wrong and violates their plans or expectations. People often become irritable when they are not aware of their thirst or hunger.

Then make a list of the people who make you angry most often. Put on this list everyone you don't like, those acquaintances you consider inferior to you, and those people you hate.

Then write down what times of day and what days of the week you are more likely to get angry. Some people, for example, are very irritable in the morning or during the first few days of the week.

Think carefully about why certain people and events make you so angry. This very thinking reduces the possibility of anger.

Conscious breathing

Developing the ability to delay your response to emerging anger requires the use of mindful breathing. Breathe deeply, thinking about the reason for the anger growing in the depths of your consciousness. Wait a few seconds. Remember that your back should be straight at this time.

You will discover that your breath has truly magical powers.

When you develop this ability to delay the response to anger that arises, not allowing it to manifest itself in any action, you will pass the second stage of dealing with anger. This result can only be achieved through continuous practice.

Realization of tranquility

Realizing peace requires a change in your attitude.

What exactly needs to be done?

Here's what. Firstly, it is best to try not to encounter those people who irritate and bother you. Secondly, decide to stop interacting with them on a tit-for-tat basis. Thirdly, consciously first notice the positive sides in people and situations, and only then...

Practice a different way of looking at the world. Use directed attention techniques.

🍀 Alexander Molyaruk