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Old 06-10-2012, 06:55 PM   #30
myspauyijbv

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Hi Tony,

I was a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for a long time before deciding to change to Theravada.

I am familiar with the concept of the 5 Buddha Families and their corresponding emotions and wisdoms. However, in your ordinary daily life , can you honestly say that these concepts enable you, for example, to immediately deal with the arising of anger in a disagreement with someone?

Please give a detailed example of how you are able to effectively deal with this and other negative emotions on an everyday level.

kind regards

Aloka
Good morning Aloka,

This is a gradual process of understanding. It happen quite naturally, one find that the emotion arises but subsides. There are three illustrations of this: A knot in a snake (uncoils itself), writing on water, and a thief entering a empty house.

This brings us to the four types of teacher: root, lineage, inner and symbolic. The symbolic teacher being everything that arises.

I wrote a short article this morning called 'Trigger happy', it may help.

Trigger happy!
In all of our encounters with others, a trigger can occur. It's not quite a reaction, but it triggers something in the mind. It inspires! It joins up some dots! Now depending on one's attitude and understanding, this may happen sometimes or be quite frequent. Another word for this is 'learning'.

This is why we need one another, to bounce ideas off. It's not so much the ideas, but it may show a fresh approach. That's if a big fat ego of pride isn't in the way!

If we actually want to learn about ourselves, then these triggers are the best things ever. Anything that expands our view must be of benefit. Of course there could be a slight discomfort as one has to let go of a previous approach, or maybe it can be seen as an upgrade.

If we merely argue about something we see as untrue, we are only giving that untruth...legs!..which it does not deserve.

Every encounter is an opportunity. One day you may realise, “Hey I don't react anymore!” That will make you happy. Hm..”I can turn this into a positive event.”

Be trigger happy!


Tony
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