Thread: Are your Buddhist beliefs and practices helpful to you?

  1. 10 Jan 21, 16:32 #1
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    Are your Buddhist beliefs and practices helpful to you?

    Dear friends,

    Are your Buddhist beliefs and practices helpful to you in these uncertain times globally?....or not?

    Please share your thoughts.

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  2. 11 Jan 21, 19:20 #2
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    My practice is quite simple... Zazen, Zazen, Zazen. In this uncertain times I have done a lot more Zazen than usual. This has kept me balanced, calm, focused, tranquil, at ease with all the covid stuff. But I do Zazen just because; I do more but the Zazen in itself is done just because. The covid will pass away in one moment or another but Zazen stays with me the rest of my life.

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    I have certainly had lots of opportunities to practise patience, the third paramita! The dukkha of the past year would motivate anyone to practice harder in all respects.

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    My practice has given me an awareness of when I'm being caught in the world, so I try to let go of that and not worry about things that are out of my control.
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    My Buddhist beliefs and practices are helpful at all times, or I wouldn't really be part of the whole thing. I really don't know what the state of my mind would be without it.
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    Buddhist beliefs are the medicine for my mind, they teach mindfulness, patience and peace. Not sure I would be here without them.
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