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Cate Cavanagh Quantum Spirituality, The Science of Change

Buddhism:A Discipline to Self Mastery

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Kwuan Yin

There are times life can be so overwhelming our ability to adapt and manage the sorrow of emotional despair and poverty seems not existent.  It is during these times we do not know what to believe in and less how to keep our mental and spiritual balance.

And it is not personal.  What do you do with the rage that must engulf us from time to time when life throws some harsh realities our way?  Rage is destructive and has destroyed families, friendships and lives.  Rage can also destroy us.  While rage is destroying us we have no control over our circumstances or ourselves.  Rage is also powerful from a spiritual point of view.  No good has ever come out of rage.  When we cannot release our rage in a healthy manner, that is stress.  Stress has been proven to be related to medical conditions such as high blood pressure, stroke and heart attack.  Rage can affect the metabolism causing fluctuations in blood sugar levels and digestive problems.

            When people think of Buddhism, many think of it as a passive religion.  You sit, eat nuts, walk the countryside and do not concern yourself with the troubles of the world.  It seems like a blasé and easy way to go about ones life.  However, Buddhism is one of the hardest belief systems to follow because its goal is to master the self.  To try to understand this, let us look at the challenges of Buddhism.  Buddhism accepts four principles called the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS.  These truths are suffering simply is, suffering is the result of attachment to desires or wants or needs, suffering stops when our attachments to what we want stop and freedom from suffering can be found within the Eightfold Path.  The Eightfold Path is a list of traits that, if acquired, will alleviate our sorrow, pain and suffering.  These traits are: Right View (or perspective), Right Thought (correcting what we perceive as true into truth), Right Speech (mindful talking or clear communication), Right Action (doing what is right and just when called upon), Right Livelihood (making a living that does not involve the suffering of people or animals or is dishonest), Right Effort (not hesitating to work as hard as you have to), Right Mindfulness (being aware of what really matters) and Right Contemplation (gratitude, joy, desire to do right rather than wrong).

            Now, we all want to run out and work on these dont we?  As you can see, these are not easy characteristics to acquire.  If you look at these traits, you can see how they do not leave much room for rage.  Since they require so much work, there would be no time for rage.  Within the practice of these disciplines, we can learn to live better, wholesome and more compassionate lives.

            Meditation to a Buddhist is to annihilate the self for it is this self that is the root of our anguish.  Once this is accomplished we can then connect with the greater, uniting force of which we are a part and be filled, like a cup, with this force.  This greater force nurtures and refreshes and keeps one mindful of the joy and freedom found in detachment.  Meditating in this manner can produce a refreshing respite from daily woes, stress and yes, rage.

            To Buddha, anger and rage make us everything an enemy could want: an enemy would want us to be bitter, depressed and in short not formidable at all.  These days, we do not need to be formidable for potential battle on a battlefield but many us are spiritual warriors or warriors for other people (advocates, for example).  These calls to service demand we be effective.  We cannot be weakened by the problems of everyday life.  The discipline of Buddhism is applicable to any other school of spirituality.  We can then create the opportunity to not become what an enemy would want but more and more who we want to be.  But, is also important to realize the solution to despair is not only prayer as necessary as this is.  Many forget the mind perpetuates anger and fear.  However, it is also the mind that must learn the discipline to take control and master itself. Cate Make sure to visit:  http://manifestreality.com

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