I tried. I really tried.
I know I put out the challenge to anyone reading this blog to join along with me as we tried to live out a Buddhist precept each week. The first was to not say, act, or think in a harmful way toward any living being, no matter what it was.
I failed...and miserably at that.
I struggled. I tried keeping my mouth shut at work when someone would say something ignorant or harmful toward something or someone else at work...I tried to take in everything around me as a part of the living connection between the universe.
I made some progress, but I can't in any way say that I made it happen. I kept my mouth shut...but it didn't mean I wasn't thinking some harmful comment to someone. And you know what I ended up doing last weekend? Pulling out the weed-wacker and taking out every weed I could find in the yard.
Perhaps I'm just not there yet. There are certain aspects of Buddhism that perhaps I AM capable of handling, but there's still so many more that I'm just not at the level of yet.
Maybe with time. We'll see. A brief reprieve before we try another one.
I wonder if other people had been or could be any more successful at it than I. Would love to know and get any tips if anyone has them.
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8 years ago
I think that our personalities and natural tendencies as human make this one of the most challenging aspects of living -- controlling those subconscious reactions that we've cultivated from childhood. Keep up the admirable, heartfelt attempts -- I'll try to attempt this with you! I wouldn't say it's a "FAIL" if you made even a little progress. Just slow moving. :-) Good luck!
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