So
what do I do? I do my best, but I give up the fruit of the action. If I
don't know what's supposed to happen, it's probably better if I don't
get to attached to one particular outcome. I listen to hear what my next
step should be. I do my acts in the best way I can. And how it comes
out...well, that's just how it comes out. Interesting, nothing more.
It's a matter of letting go of expectations.
A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Sunday, December 4, 2016
Via Daily Dharma / December 4, 2016: A Clouded Reality
If
we indulge the human propensity to understate, exaggerate, and alter
facts for whatever comfort or false security a lie might accord us, we
forfeit our capacity to see reality clearly, and see only a world of our
own invention.
—Lin Jensen, "Right Lying"
—Lin Jensen, "Right Lying"
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