Revoked: Sep 28, 2023

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Acceptance does not mean we stop taking action to improve the world, to increase peace, increase love, equality, wisdom and justice. One can still take action, just that emotional acceptance reduces your personal drama with people and brings inner peace.... which makes you happier, and even more effective to help others. This is what Buddha taught. Thich Nhat Hanh explains here:

"If you don’t have peace within yourself, it is very difficult to work for peace. [During the Vietnam war] our thinking was, the other person is not our enemy. Our enemies are misunderstanding, discrimination, violence, hatred, and anger. With that kind of insight, we conducted the peace movement.

If you are filled with anger, you create more suffering for yourself than for the other person. When you are inhabited by the energy of anger, you want to punish, you want to destroy. That is why those who are wise do not want to say anything or do anything while the anger is still in them.

So you try to bring peace into yourself first. When you are calm, when you are lucid, you will see that the other person is a victim of confusion, of hate, of violence transmitted by society, by parents, by friends, by the environment. When you are able to see that, your anger is no longer there...”

~Thich Nhat Hanh~

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My route is through the heart of devotion. That is a path. There are many pathways here. One is the path of wisdom, one is the path of calming the mind, one is the path of opening the heart. Mine is the path of love.

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Reflecting Upon Social Action

However the seed is planted, in that way the fruit is gathered. Good things come from doing good deeds; bad things come from doing bad deeds. (SN 11.10) What is the purpose of a mirror? For the purpose of reflection. So too social action is to be done with repeated reflection. (MN 61)

A person is content with any clothing they may get, speaks in praise of such contentment, and does not try to obtain these things in improper or unsuitable ways. Not getting these things, one does not worry, and getting them one makes use of them without being greedy, obsessed, or infatuated, observing such potential dangers and wisely aware of how to escape them. (AN 4.28)

Reflection

Just as we practiced cultivating contentment in regard to food last month, today we are invited to work with our relationship to clothing. Discontent is a persistent cause of social discord, and contentment contributes to people getting along with one another. If we envy what other people have or yearn for something we don’t have, the seeds of unhappiness are sown and watered. Such suffering is unnecessary.

Daily Practice

We are not being asked here to have disdain for fashion, or taste, and it is not suggested that what we wear does not matter at all. As with so many other aspects of our lives, we are being invited here to examine the relationship we have with ordinary things such as the clothing we wear. It is healthy and helpful to focus more on what we have than on what we want and to avoid the pitfalls of becoming greedy, obsessed, or infatuated.

Tomorrow: Abstaining from Intoxication
One week from today: Reflecting upon Bodily Action

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