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  "Buddhanature is the inn ate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss."         Karl Brunnholzl "Seek first to understand, then to be understood."    Steven Covey

     "Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss."         Karl Brunnholzl

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  Said another way 1) Trying to change the past will only result in suffering. 2) When your opinions are strong, triple check your premises 3) Follow your own path. To follow another's leads to disappointment and suffering. 4) Time heals all. When one's intentions and motivations are pure. 5) To judge another is also to judge oneself. 6) Accept things as they are. Realize you're not in control. 7) To know oneself is to know one's Buddhanature and blissful happiness. 8) Yor are the product of your thoughts. 9) Smiles can change moods and brighten days. 10) Kindness (and love) can change the world. 11) Never throw in the towel. Take a break, wipe the sweat, and keep going. 12) Treat others as you wish to be treated. Additional Thoughts A lot of good common sense packed into a small space. Simple stuff really.  However, given the state of the country and the planet a lot of work needs to be done. Quickly. Yet many prefer to dither. At their own peril. The solution is simpl...

  What Is Emptiness? Emptiness (in Sanskrit,  shunyata ) is a foundational doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism. It is also possibly the most misunderstood doctrine in all of Buddhism. Too often, people assume it means that nothing exists. But this is not the case. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama said, "The  existence  of things and events is not in dispute; it is the  manner in which  they exist that must be clarified." Put another way, things and events have no  intrinsic  existence and no individual identity except in our thoughts. The  Dalai Lama  also teaches that "existence can only be understood in terms of dependent origination."  Dependent origination  is a teaching that no being or thing exists independently of other beings or things. In the  Four Noble Truths , the Buddha taught that our distresses ultimately spring from thinking ourselves to be independently existing beings with an intrinsic "self." Thoroughly percei...