Helping others
February 8th, 2009
Good morning Volker and All Others
I hope all of you are having a great sunday.
Today is a very beautiful sunny day overhere in my city in Brazil. It remains me that sometimes our mind is clear like a clear blue sky but othertimes our mind and wishes are clouded such as a cloudy sky.
In even both days if we are able to keep our determination to help others that’s the meaningful goal.
In Transform your Life, Geshe-la tells us in its chapter Accepting defeat and offering the victory:
“…In summary, if we wish to help others effectively, we definitely need to be able to accept our problems without getting angry or discouraged. Helping others is not always easy – it often involves considerable hardship ans inconvenience, and going against the wishes of our self-cherishing mind. Unless we are able to accept this, our commitment to benefiting others will be half- hearted and unstable. However, once we develop the ability to accept our own problems patiently, we shall have the strength of mind to practise taking on the suffering of others and giving them happiness. Gradually we shall develop the inner realization of accepting defeat and offering the victory, and nothing will have the power to discourage us from our beneficial activities.”
We can try to meditate on it and afterwards I wish we can become much more able to help others, for we have became much capable to accept our own problems without blaming others for them.
L&K
Marcelo
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