Walk Like A Buddha

The short answer to this question is “drop fixed mind.” As I mentioned earlier, any time we start to think that our particular thoughts, emotions, or opinions are right and someone else’s are wrong, we are setting ourselves up for conflict. The world does not need more conflict. It needs intimacy.

So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good; that is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.”12

“If you cannot create, you have no right to destroy. If you cannot give life, you don’t have the right to give death to any living thing.”

taking others’ happiness as your own; the happiness of others makes you happy.

Keeping your ex in your heart may be scary, but you have to remember that we all love love. Receiving or giving it, even in the midst of your own heartache or feeling of loss, is an incredible gift.

One could say that life is at least 50 percent pain. If we do not relate to pain, we are not relating to half our life.”

Everything is impermanent, so there is actually very little to worry about in this lifetime.

If you are sitting on the meditation cushion and you feel bombarded by jealous thoughts, that is a time for you to cut through this habitual thinking and come back to the present moment, come back to the breath. The more you come back to the present, the more you are loosening the hold jealousy has on you.

Will I feel better or worse when this is over?”

I causing harm to myself or others?” If pleasuring yourself is causing harm, don’t do it. If it isn’t, I don’t see an issue here.