Zen 禅悟人生 -My way of Seeking a Balance life

[dolphinsiah]

The Courage to Swim Upstream...Back Home -By Anne-Marie


Extracts from :http://www.revealingwisdom.com/uncategorized/the-courage-to-swim-upstream-back-home

How does the journey of wild salmon reflect the path of living an authentic life?
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The journey of the salmon is one of the most amazing phenomena in nature. How is it that after years in the sea, they can locate the exact stream in which they were born and pursue their upstream return home?


Human journey back home can be lonely, scary, disorienting and full of ‘obstacles’.

Living and leading an authentic life requires staying focused even in the middle of the ferocious storms, perceived ‘predators’ and swimming against the conventional stream of people unconsciously and innocently racing away from home.

This journey requires a dedication to becoming intimate with the strategies of the mind, the messages from the body and the willingness to sit in the fire of intense emotions and reactions when they arise.

What seems straight forward, intellectually, can feel counter-intuitive and exhausting. Doesn’t it sound easy to ‘become more intimate with our particular thoughts, beliefs and distracting behaviors that inhibit us from living with an open-heart and with a fierce trust in every moment and experience of our lives?’ Yet, doing so can feel like swimming upstream, jumping waterfalls and lying exhausted on the edge of the bank.

[dolphinsiah]

More on Swimming Upstream.

Extracted from Ven.Tenzin Palmo talk in Tasmania Australia June 2000.

\"We are not going to flow the way of the river. We're going to swim upstream.
Swimming Upstream is always hard.

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It is easy to be swept along with the general current. But to turn around and swim upstream takes courage. :imdrowning:

The problem is that the river , which is flowing down , is just going to end up in wastelands. It is going to end in the swamps.

If we have the courage to swim upstream, we may have a chance of actually coming back to pure spring and source of the river. It's up to us.

Nobody can do this for us. :imanangel:

Each one of us has to take responsiblity of our lives.
Whether our lives are going to be destructive force against ourselves and against others or not. :scared:

No Buddha is standing up there with a thunderbolt ready to strike us down if we swot an ant or tell a lie . :spank:

It doesn't harm the Buddhas . :roll:

It only harms ourselves.\"

[dolphinsiah]

The importance of taking good care of our minds ....

Extracted from Ven Tenzin Palmo talk in Tasmania, Australia June 2000.
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\"Without a mind we are like a corpse.
All our inner feelings, emotions, thoughts, memories , anticipations and fantasies are from our mind.

But how much care do we take of our minds?

While we take such care to clean, air decorate our homes.
We also put much effort into taking care of our bodies, we take bath everyday, we wear decent clothings , we see that our hair is brushed and washed.
We take care of our skin and appearance.

But we take little trouble to clean , air and beautifully adorn our minds.
Our minds are junk piles.

Everyday from newspapers, TV, radio, gossip -all kinds of piles in and sits there.

YEars and YEars of stupid thoughts and futile memories of things people did against us churn around our mind-all the resentments , jealousies and frustration going way back to childhood.

These resentments constantly stay there fermenting in our minds.

It is as though we are all constipated in our mind.
We rarely ever let out and expurgate.

And on top of this incredible long standing pile of garbage , we want to build a beautiful spirtual temple.

We want to become great meditators and we wonder why it doesn't work....\"

[dolphinsiah]

Is Mid of the Week-Wednesday.


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My thoughts for Wednesday....

[dolphinsiah]

A Joke to Make a Happy Wednesday....


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[cfan]

dolphinsiah:

A Joke to Make a Happy Wednesday....


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I was feeling pretty down but that really broke a laugh from me.

Damm right!!! Sometimes assholes do become leaders.
(Both good and bad)

:rotflmao:

[dolphinsiah]

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Quotes of Life

[dolphinsiah]

Cfan,


A Quote to cheer all of us up....


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[cfan]

dolphinsiah:

Cfan,


A Quote to cheer all of us up....


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You know i saved all these and did it as my screensaver for the computer.

AS I need constant reminders of what I need to focus on.

How right it is to say that

I have stop trying to explain why and how I feel, most of the time I am only \"poker-faced\" or \"zombie-like\"

Only to my kids will I be most at ease and reveal who I truly am
I try my best not to let them \"experience the pain or the unhappiness\" I am feeling as truly they will not understand or know.

I am just bidding my time when my responsibilities to them has been completed to the best of my abilities.

As for the rest of humanity who has done what they deemed \"correct\" in doing, I am not interested nor am I bothered.

Jia You!! Jia You!! Jia You!!!

Thanks, really appreciate your sharing your views on life and continue doing so. You have a supporter here......

:lovesite:

[Lilac66]

cfan:

Jia You!! Jia You!! Jia You!!!

Thanks, really appreciate your sharing your views on life and continue doing so. You have a supporter here......

:lovesite:

Me too! Good idea to keep as screen savers..Thanks.