Hi Volker, good morning! Challenges, changes….ummmm why the world climate is changing, is it its destiny? Our is it happening because we are using it, interacting to it and promoting some changes on it?
The same is our life, our mind…we have essence, our essence will be there for ever if we do not promote any change and does it not matter how externally I will change.
So, STOP the external changes and START to change internally through practicing your spiritual path. Do not force any external changes from its side, but in very subtle away promote some inner changes and from that you will get all the external changes for your personnel developments. Stop today to keep yourself trying to make some external changes in your life…got into a sublime and peaceful way…breathing different, seeing with your inner eyes, with a mind full of love, compassion, tenderness and kindness. And then you will get together so many wonderful harvests in life.
Yes, our life is a movement up and down all its time, if we do not have wisdom and allow ourselves to be controlled by our delusions.
You said ability to cope I prefer to say acceptance + wisdom.
Wisdom in Buddhism means to have a deep understanding and strong realisations on empitness or the ultimate true.
Our values, beliefs, families, phenomena came from where? Which mind are we using to hold them with?
Yes, that’s a good question: What should we belief in? So what is your belief right now… My belief is: I deeply belief in Buddha words and this is my only belief. Sometimes or better almost the time my dellusions and ordinary views, ordinary wisdom and old attachments do not allow me to understand and to hold a right view of it and then I make a lot mistakes. Not because Buddha’s words are wrong but because I am not capable enough to understand and apply his teaching in my life all the time.
We are not thinking wrong when we try to understand what’s going on with us? But we are doing wrong when we follow our dellusions to take our decisions out.
You have asked me: should we not say “it happened to me, so it did not happen to other people who could coped with it worse? Who knows? If i cannot control my life and what happen to it how can i think about other people’s life. Maybe other people can cope with it better than me, maybe not, but defenitely they will cope with that in different way, because my Karma, my life’s experiences are utterly different from their karma. Fortunately I cannot say better or worse, it will be just different.
So, how can we help people? I can say it: only being happy by ourselves first. Have you ever try to help someone when you are not ok? not happy? not well?
If we are not happy we are uncapable to help others. If we are not fine, if we have not a good health, money, a stable life and a tranquil mind, How can we truly help others? We cannot efetively help others, we can transform some hardship in their lifes, we can give some money, we can take in a friend of us at home, but all these our acrtions are not permanent, they will not remain because we are in Samsara and the nature of the Samsara is suffering.
Yes for sure, everything that happen to me is a consequence/result from my previous actions. We easily accept positive incomes to our lifes but we cannot accept any negative results.
Yes the Newton’s Law is right to explain physics or physical phenomena, but i do not think he is saying “all forces in a system are equal”. Because they are not. I am understanding he says to all action there is a reaction with the same intensity but opposite directions, but it does not means, all forces are the same.
Im Buddhism we say Karma’s Law, Karma, cause and effect… in other religions they might say something different maybe destiny, but we can use one concept from one religion to explain some phenomena from another religion.
We can not mix all these religions and beliefs up.
Sorry to say, but you are wrong when you say: “if whatever we do, has the same effect on us and life….” That’s my dearest friend as i had explained to you on my last post about the trip/wish to go to China. So how can we say that we will arrive at China anyway…because we will not get in there if our preparations were made wrong, you have bought a ticket to South Africa expecting to arrive in China… The end exist but they are not the same, ever. They do depend upon our preparations. It does really matter what we do now and ever.
In your example when you say to sell out everything, to quit job, wife and to forget our commitments and responsabilities and go for a life over a motorbike, so we cannot expect to get different for our life then that. Same as in the other example. The main problem is: we have got our choices in life, we have to expect results from it nor from the choices we have not got. If I chose the Path B why will I expect to get the results giving by the Path A? We normally do that! This is because wew lack of wisdom and as its results we blame others, ourselves and the Path, but not what we have chose.
For sure we will all die, but the difference is how will we get there? Full of sufferings and pains or happy and with a peaceful mind?
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso has wrotten a book called: Living meaningfully, Dying Joyfully. Which its essence is: applying wisdom in our lifes we can quarantee a peaceful end for them.
Volker, we are talking about internal changes not external ones. For the west people is easy to think about and to change their lifes externally because their values are based on material stuff meanwhile Buddhism philosophy is teaching us about internal moves, internal changes. We do not change anything externally – they are the results of our actions – so we have to change internally, only!
Who can guarantee our lifes will be ent at the age of 80? Show me that! Prove me it!
Nothing is the same, it is not easy to be enlightned, we need to practice sincerely…and to practice sincerely we need to understand what we are doing and to understand what we are doing we need to study and to believe and put it into practice what we are studying we need a fully realised Teacher – S priritual Teacher. Without Him there is no Path.
Sorry I am not qualified to be your Spiritual Teacher and that was never my intention. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso is very qualified for it, because to be a Spiritual Teacher/Guide one has to have achieved great inner results, has to become Boddhisattva, to become Buddha, have to wake up from the sleeping of ignorance and become free from Samsara and guide us by his pure example, wisdom, great compassion and uncontaminated Love.
Volker it is time to get your Spiritual Guide. Please do not look at outside, look at inside and you will find it.
L&K
Marcelo
Buddhism, change, karma, life and death, path of life, way of life
But, I will try to learn and, I will try to meditate on what you wrote, because I very much like it. Thank you for that. I am not sure when, but I know someday, I will have the 3 years, 3 months and 3 days to meditate and find my 
