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That's a lovely example Loong...yes, nature shows us everything we need to know I think!

To all or none,

One of my biggest ennemy is anger.I have read a book by THICH NHAT HANH,on the subject. Bit my tongue often, had 20 sessions
with a psychologist,where we would always at one point of the meeting discuss ,anger.

Anger is happiness's ennemy.Each moment that I spend on anger
is a moment of loss of happiness and Mindfulness.

loong
still Learning to live the present moment,learning to live Mindfulness.

To all or not,

The other day Lisa My Teacher ,told me to become a Dhamma Warrior.

The only martial art that is not offensive is aikido,founded by
Sensei Morihei Ueshiba.He also wrote the book The Art of Peace
that you can get on the net,under: The Art of Peace"

One of greatest students was Steven Segal.I have found a documentary on Sensei Steven Segal.It lasts an hour.He Is for real.

go to [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVOtlCnm3t0[url]
You will be astonished.

Loong Dhamma Warrior

Hi Loong, I have also had to work through anger a lot in my path, and many of the people I work with are doing so now. It is such a big one for many people in this day and age.

In terms of really getting to the root of it, and uprooting it, I think the most helpful thing is to get to the hurt underneath the anger. The anger is usually a defensive reaction when something has occurred that hurts us emotionally in some way. It is not always easy to see what that is - when we are dealing with deep-seated emotional patterns, we can jump so fast from hurt to anger that it is difficult to catch it when it is still at hurt. So taking time later to feel the hurt that was triggered, before the anger, and inquiring into the roots of this, will help us to uproot it.

If we don't do this, it can get frustrating because we can feel as if we've practiced mindfulness continually, and come to a place where we cannot get angry or can let go of it when it arises, but then something happens that once again hits this hurt, and the old pattern of anger arises again. So in this case, inquiry (whether in therapy on our own) is helpful (or one of the other Buddhist psychological tools for dealing with these feelings.)

To all or none,

I just received a book in french ,called the Interior or Inside
Warrior.I will translate the preface of the book.
.................................................................
Our Fate of being human is to learn,
we go to knowledge as we go to war:
With fear,with respect,(i add Honor) fully awakened,
the fact being is that we risk our lives.

Only a Warrior can survive the path of knowledge,
with a serenity and a self confidence that are absolute.

Because the Art Of Warriorship consists in balancing
the terror of being human with the marvel of being human.

Don Juan Matus

loong
learner and messenger

To all or none,

IN THE NAME OF GOD
..................
Minutes ago ,I was reading my morning paper.A 10 year old Young girl,was arrested for trying in the name of the Talibans,to
blow up a police station.Who sent her ?Her own brother,chief of a
Taliban group.Compassion has to accompany these childrens used to
do suicide missions in the name of Allah .Luckyly the device did not work.

Yes it is their karma!Yes I have to have compassion for everyone on this blue planet.Just Yes.

loong
Mahayana Buddhist

To all or none,

This afternoon ,I asked myself :Why this desire for knowledge?
Is it for false pride, is it to be a better Buddhist?

Buddha said to attain enlightenment ,follow the path,the path of
the Eighfold path and you shall attain Nibbana,so why?

loong

To all or none,
Text by Banthe but are Buddha's words.

Friends:

The inevitable and ever returning problem: Death!

All health ends in sickness, all youth ends in ageing, all life ends in assured death!
All worldly being begins with birth, is haunted by ageing, surprised by sickness,
and struck down by death, often in a state of desperate panic and frantic fear...
As though if huge mountains made of rock so vast that they reach up into the sky,
were to attack from every side, grinding & crunching beneath them all that lives,
so indeed do Ageing and Death roll over all beings, whether gods, kings, warriors,
priests, merchants, craftsmen, poor, or animals, crushing all beings, sparing none!
And neither armies, nor guards, nor medicines, nor spells, or riches, can even delay
this by a single second! (SN I 102). Death should thus be remembered as the ruin
of success by seeing it as the final & unavoidable wrecking of any life's success!
Vism I 232

Loong's comment:I do not see death as the ruin of success.My body
Inside is at least 100 years of suffering.Today renewed my vows
of Taking Refuge and of monks.This act does not make me more successful ,however,i find myself prepared for death at any moment.Death in my case ,will bring me to a new beginning.Why fear Death ,when we started dying when we were born.

Loong
Mahayana Buddhist

To all or none,
Each full moon in the Therevada lineage has a significance attached to it .Text by Banthe


Friends:

How to be a True Buddhist through Observance?

Durutu Poya day is the full-moon of January. This holy day celebrates
the first visit of the Buddha to Sri Lanka. The Buddha visited the very
place, where the present magnificent Mahiyangana Stupa was built to
enshrine the Buddha's hair relics and the collar bone.

To all or none.

I had ,4 or 5 posts reay to type.
However ,when I do my research,I listen to mantras.
The one playing was the one on The Green Tara.

The Green Tara as I can understand ,is or was the first woman Buddhani,and was asked to be transformed into a man .She refused.
Depending on the Mahayana lineage you read,there are 21 various
Tara's.Green,Blue,White,etc,.All having their forces.
The Green Tara ,is often referred as the mother of all Buddhas.
I have read once that ,she has eons of existence.
To some,this may sound far fetched.
What I love of Buddhism ,is you are FREE to believe what you want.
There are no dogmas,no must,no sins,just karma.

This was a plain post,but you see,that is what I felt like talking
to you about.
Loong
a funny Buddhist😇