Discipline related traits.

Mindfulness: To recognize disturbing emotions.
Perseverance: To follow through, through (disturbing emotions)
Wisdom: To discern that disturbing emotions are powerless, empty and Impermanent.
Concentration: To not get distracted by disturbing emotions.

Can you come up with anything else to add?

A Serpent guides me to damnation
All religion is a lie
I choose to question my creation
Whats the purpose of this life?
Obscene temptations of destruction lead me closer to this truth
With devastation comes a consequence created by abuse
And when they come to snuff your freedom
Make a stand they can't refuse
Invert your thoughts
And bait the pentagram
This world is an illusion
My intention's to relieve
Have left me down inside a hole
But through this brotherhood I've found a perfect way to gain control
A sacred pact of new perception
Burn the pig and bleed the goat
A witch has saved my intellect and through discretion now I know
Take 13 steps into the void
Face retribution all alone
I spit my poison to the priest who thinks his words can calm my soul
This rain will fall
And with these floods
There comes a message from an evil
Now a question haunts my mind
Will I survive it through the sleep?
I cannot help what I've become
My train of consequence
It moves along the tracks of what's been done...

How many summers do you have left?

Life sure is short, if we count the moments worth living. Easy to waste away the present distracted by a tomorrow that never comes.

We need SINGLE-MINDEDNESS in order to succeed in life:
Purity of heart, not willing any other thing than ONE.

Let go of distractions, release them from the mindstream so that ONE THING can settle in.

MAKE WAY – THE ONE PURPOSE is like royalty coming to visit, a traveller sent out by the Divine. We need to devote the time to create some extra space (a guest room) in our inner worlds so that the divinely manifested visitor may settle in. We can create the grounds for our visitor to stick around if we honor that space by protecting it and tending to it regularly, keeping it pristine.

That space wherein the ONE PURPOSE can claim residence isn’t
"made".
It’s already there.

We’re only to expel the clutter from our inner temple.

Here's an invitation to do some pre-yule de-cluttering:

- Set up a bright incorporeal light source in your mind's palace to illuminate any dark corners.

- Open the windows and let some fresh air in, and look under the rugs – they might be covering something up from back when you were sweeping the ground without proper dedication.

- Set up walls to keep out what needs to stay out. Find the door. Lock it. Seal windows shut.

- Implement a strong defense of weapons to scare intruders away or destroy them if necessary. Make the place look absolutely terrifying from the outside. (Be ready, intruders will show up.)

- Journalling is a great tool to use in addition to visualisation.

Whichever visual speaks to you and ends up working is fair game. In the end, it's about being left with a clean surface, a blank slate, a fresh canvas, clear waters, an open stage (insert your analogy here) that's both indestructible and devoid of anything other than emptiness.

It doesn't matter how small or big that empty, holy spot ends up being.
What matters is your perception of its existence.

P E R C E P T I O N
D E T E R M I N E S
E X P E R I E N C E .

Perception of emptiness causes experience of emptiness.

Once aware, no action can be performed without that awareness shining through.

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Merry Christmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07ul1fK1Rtk

"Lama Dawa Rinpoche used to say Santa [Claus] is none other than Vaishravana, the king of the northern direction, who is known as the god of wealth, surrounded by his retinue of yakshas (dwarves), and living in the northernmost realm.

Offerings used to be placed at trees associated with Vaishravana in hopes he would grant wishes and bestow wealth (now we make offerings of cookies and milk to Santa). The christmas tree is the 'Wish-fulfilling tree' and Santa's seed syllable is HO."

~ Kunzang Dechen Chodron

Because surely, Subhuti, fearless bodhisattvas do not cling to a dharma, much less to no dharma. This is the meaning behind the Tathagata's saying, 'A dharma teaching is like a raft. If you should let go of dharmas, how much more so no dharmas.'

—Diamond Sutra

إِنَّكُمْ وَمَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ حَصَبُ جَهَنَّمَ أَنتُمْ لَهَا وَٰرِدُونَ ٩٨

Certainly you disbelievers and whatever you worship instead of Allah will be the fuel of Hell. You are all bound to enter it.

Surah 21 Al-Anbya 98

Based on the perception of the Observer, nature of samsara is recognized even in the Quran; in particular, it recognizes that the matter of hell itself will be the very imagination.

he didn't do nothing

12 “How you are fallen from heaven,
O [a]Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the [b]lowest depths of the Pit.

16 “Those who see you will gaze at you,
And consider you, saying:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
17 Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who [c]did not open the house of his prisoners?’