Rational Nation USA

  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 It Means to Be Truthful In Buddhism, being truthful goes beyond simply not telling lies. It means speaking truthfully and honestly, yes. But it also means using speech to benefit others, and not to use it to benefit only ourselves.  Speech rooted in the  Three Poisons  -- hate, greed, and ignorance -- is false speech. If your speech is designed to get something you want, or to hurt someone you don't like, or to make you seem more important to others, it is false speech even if what you say is factual. For example, repeating ugly gossip about someone you don't like is false speech, even if the gossip is true.  SKIP Truth and Intention Untruthful speech includes "half-truths" or "partial truths." A half or partial truth is a statement that is factually true but which leaves out information in a way that conveys a lie. If you ever read the political "fact check" columns in many major newspapers, you find a lot of statements called out as "...

 

 

  117.   Should a person commit evil, let him not do it again and again. Let him not find pleasure therein, for painful is the accumulation of evil. 121.   Think not lightly of evil, saying, "It will not come to me." Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil. 125.   Like fine dust thrown against the wind, evil falls back upon that fool who offends an inoffensive, pure and guiltless man. 127  . Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds Dhammapada Evil can manifest itself in many ways. Also through many channels. And, it can and does sometime mix with good. We have recently seen the later manifest in American politics and government. The channel is Donald J. Trump and those in government and the general population who supported him and continue to s...

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