Dharma

"The practice of Dharma is a constant battle within, replacing previous negative conditioning or habituation with new positive conditioning. ... Through training we can change; we can transform ourselves."

"One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there simply to make you more clever. ... The most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our education and our knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart."

The Dalai Lama captures me with these words. I stumbled across the website for The Art of Happiness, and was intrigued by the simplistic wisdom. Anger, anxiety, stress, hate, fear..etc....they can happen..& maintaining a healthy point of view takes a conscious effort.

sidenote: I predict that LOST will end in a way that greatly related to the first quote. The "alternate reality" will be the actual reality, but characters who ramain alive will take away the lessons the island taught them.

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