Sometimes it is better to simply tolerate the wrongs of others rather than trying to stop or oppose them. Everyone has their own set of faults and if one takes a stance of trying to oppose all these wrongs of others it can become a large burden on the mind and weight it down.
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It is important to always be weary and watchful of hidden agendas. For example someone can try to do something that looks like one thing on the surface, but is actually another thing underneath. This is an example of a hidden agenda. This someone may not even be aware of this themselves however, due to the blinding [...]
Everyone has weaknesses that they were born with; weaknesses inherited from their habits/character from previous lives. We also have our own set of weaknesses. It helps to always understand and see this when dealing with others.
Every being also strengths. Everyone, no matter who they are or what they are like, has atleast one good property. It maybe [...]
The importance of avoiding thinking during meditation can never be over-emphasised. Aimless and pointless thinking, especially when ill-will (vyapda), aversion (dosa), greed/desire (lobha), delusion (moha) and other such negative forces are involved, clouds the mind and makes it diffused. To gain a state of concentration and peace (samadhi) during meditation, all thinking must be ceased. [...]
Let the body breathe on its own. Have you realized how tense the stomach is/can be and how we try to regulate/control the breath? This can be best noticed when doing the awareness of breath (ana-pana-sati) meditation. So rather than trying to breathe, relax the body and especially the stomach and let the body breathe [...]
It is possible to get addicted to thoughts! Some are addicted to sensual (lobha) thoughts, memories of past sensual activties conducted (e.g. going to a party and pleasing the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind). Others get addicted to angry (dosa) thoughts, where they think of some malicious thing they did/want to do over and over [...]
