So I'm weird
The other day i just tossed off a one-liner about starting a blog for the purposes of ranting. Cowboy Kahlil asked why I don't just rant here, since I do it well. I told him I have an approach I take in public that just doesn't include that sort of thing.
Seque to yesterday on the bus: For my own reasons I'm revisiting my philosophical and spiritual roots, so I was reading "The Supreme Path of Discipleship: The Precepts of the Gurus," a Mahayan Buddhist text. Two sets of precepts pretty much covers my principles, so I decided to post them here.
The Ten Things to be Avoided- Avoid a teacher whose heart is set on acquiring worldly fame and possessions
- Avoid friends and followers who are detrimental to your peace of mind and spiritual growth
- Avoid living where there happen to be many people who annoy and distract you
- Avoid making a living by means of deceit and theft
- Avoid actions that harm your mind and impede your spiritual development
- Avoid thoughless acts that lower you in the esteem of others
- Avoid useless conduct and actions
- Avoid concealing your own faults while speaking loudly of others'
- Avoid food and habits that disagree with your health
- Avoid attachments that are inspired by avarice
The Ten Things Not to be Avoided- Ideas, being the radience of the mind, are not to be avoided
- Thought-forms, being the revelry of reality, are not to be avoided
- Obscuring passions, being the means of reminding one of the need to be wise, are not to be avoided
- Affluence, being the manure and water for spiritual growth, are not to be avoided
- Illness and troubles, being teachers of piety, are not to be avoided
- Enemies and misfortune, being the means of inclining one to a releigious career, are not to be avoided
- That which comes of itself, being a divine gift, is not to be avoided
- Reason, being in every action the best friend, is not to be avoided
- Such devotional exercises of body and mind as one is capable of performing are not to be avoided
- The thought of helping others, howsoever limited one's ability to help others may be, is not to be avoided
Now, this don't mean I won't bitch-slap ya if I feel it necessary. But I'm trying.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 5/30/2003 03:46:00 PM |
Posted by P6 at May 30, 2003 03:46 PM
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