A reminder worth sharing.

Bill Martino

Bill Martino

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A valued friend sent me the following today as a reminder of who I am and what I try to be in which I sometimes fail. I'd like to share the information with you. My friend copied it from a text in the Kopan Monastery.

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Being determined to accomplish the highest welfare for all beings who excel the wish-fulfilling gem, I shall constantly hold them dear.
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When accompanying anyone I shall view myself as the lowest of all and in the depth of my heart shall hold dearly others as supreme.
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Examining my continuum throughout all actions, as soon as an emotional affliction arises that endangers myself and others, by facing it I shall strictly avert it.
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When seeing a being of wicked nature who is forced by violent wrongs and sufferings I shall hold dear this one so hard to find as though discovering a precious treasure.
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When others, out of jealousy, treat me badly with abuse, insults and the like, I shall accept their hard words and offer the other the victory.
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When someone whom I have assisted and in whom I have placed great hope inflicts me with extremely bad harm, I shall view him as my supreme spiritual friend.
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In short, I shall offer benefit and bliss to all mothers in this actual life and in the future continuum, and secretly I shall take upon myself all of the harms and sufferings of my mothers.
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Also, having not defiled all these by the stain of preconceptions of the eight worldly feelings, and by perceiving all phenomena as illusory, free from attachment, I shall be released from bondage.
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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
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Thank you for sharing these words of wisdom. The world be such a better place if we all made the effort to live by them.
 
Powerfull concepts, and a true challenge.

Thank You.



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"To know and to act are one."
 
Beautiful words. But the contents are what is important. It is wonderful to acknowledge that when the contents are strong and full of beauty, the words reflect it.

Thank you for sharing these universal principles, Uncle Bill.

As a anti-guerrilla war vet I dread violence and I am so glad to acknowledge that those who own swords or like them, have them as a kind of deterrent pieces rather then agressive pieces.

May the sword be a symbol of Peace.

Antonio
 
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After years of trying to.....

I will just say that I finally learned to be responsible for my own actions and to do the best I can each day.
The rest will always need work.

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"I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

........unknown, to me anyway........

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If I drink the poison of hatred I am the one hurt by it. I must this day refuse to hate, and must especially not fall into self-hatred.

I cannot fill my heart with fear and resentment and expect to have room left for love to enter.

I must commit myself to find and celebrate joy this day. Whether I like it or not.
 
Life is a long journey towards enlightenment. The teachings you shared with us can be used as a guide along that journey. At times I have forgotten these and other teachings and through my association with this forum, I have remembered. Thank you all for the course correction.
 
Words of wisdom for all of us. I haven't been able to live up to them either. Still they're good to look at every now and then just to remind ourselves.
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Paul


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Paul Neubauer
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A tool is, basically, an object that enables you to take advantage of the laws of physics and mechanics in such a way that you can seriously injure yourself.
 
I find a lifetime's worth of effort in the simple verse that I use as my sig: Micah 6:8 "He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God?"

Stephen
 
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