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Each of these explain there is no right or wrong. There is only perspective, we must be open to all.

If we Believe in something then we should always remember it is only a Belief, it is not fact. Our Ego becomes attatched to it and it them changes from our Belief to our Identity and this leads to something we become angry and argumentative about. The truth is no one has enough knowledge to judge.

Each of these practices promote Compassion as one of their fundamental foundations.

I am saddened at times to see on a Buddhism, Zen, Tao and Meditation page that people comment on other people's offerings with words like 'Wrong' and 'No' on occasion in block capitals to emphasis their disregard, or I see negative emojis added, such as Laughing at someone's perspective or even an angry face. 

I believe that the Admin team here do an amazing job and to date I have never seen a post of discrimination or one which voices hatred slip through the net. So I see no need for people to defend anything.

The more perspectives we have the cleared we see.

If you feel the need to defend or disagree with someone perspective, then as is said. If you have the opportunity to be Right or Kind always choose Kind. Or at least let go of the need disagree.

In buddhism they recommend the below practice, it is difficult for the ego at times to do this but it promotes Compassion 🙏❤️

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“Folks don’t like nobody being too proud, or too free.”

“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to....We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful....We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”

The Color Purple

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Developing Unarisen Healthy States

 

RIGHT EFFORT
Developing Unarisen Healthy States

Whatever a person frequently thinks about and ponders, that will become the inclination of their mind. If one frequently thinks about and ponders healthy states, one has abandoned unhealthy states to cultivate healthy states, and then one’s mind inclines to healthy states. (MN 19) Here a person rouses the will, makes an effort, stirs up energy, exerts the mind, and strives to develop the arising of unarisen healthy mental states. One develops the unarisen joy-awakening factor. (MN 141)

Reflection

Happiness is a skill that can be learned, and it can be practiced again and again as a living presence. We are all capable of experiencing happy and healthy states of mind, but sometimes we need to remember to experience them as a conscious and deliberate act. At any point, we can in principle draw out of a pool of latent tendencies the active manifestation of a positive state such as joy, thus waking it up and bringing it to life.

Daily Practice

Try the exercise of deliberately cultivating joy as an active and present state of mind. This does not mean pretending to be joyful as a kind of false overlay to feelings that are not joyful. It means consciously developing actual joy and allowing it to replace whatever other feeling might be in the mind at the moment. Joy is accessible; it is just a matter of remembering to get in touch with it as a living emotion.

Tomorrow: Establishing Mindfulness of Mind and Abiding in the Third Jhāna
One week from today: Maintaining Arisen Healthy States

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Via Daily Dharma: Finding Another Side of Life

 When we are in a spiritual community, perfect or not, we see ourselves more clearly. We see the depth of our pain and rage while bowing or offering incense and flowers. We move so slowly that what is in our bodies cannot be overlooked. Over time, you begin to see another side of yourself, another side of life.

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, “A Glimpse of the Unseen”

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