Practicing Dharma
I've been working very hard on practicing compassion, staying in the moment, and letting go. I ran across this article today on taking these practices into daily life. I found this passage and it really helped me. It's from this website.
"Throughout the day, continually remind yourself that you don't want to harm anybody, that you want to be of service to them, and that you seek to do all actions for the ultimate enlightenment of yourself and others. To remind yourself of this, you can use a frequent event as a trigger to call you back to your motivation. For example, every time you stop at a red light, instead of being irritated and thinking, "Why is this red light so long? I'm late for work!" think, "Today, I want to have a kind heart towards others." Thus the red light becomes an opportunity to remember the kind heart. When the telephone rings, instead of rushing to pick it up, first think, "May I be of service to whomever is on the line." Then answer the phone. Every time your pager goes off, calmly come back to the kind heart, then respond to the call. A friend told me that her trigger to come back to the kind heart was her children calling, "Mommy! Mommy!" Since this happened frequently throughout the day, she became familiar with the kind heart and also was much more patient with her children. "
I've been trying to do this with my kids. Every time they call my name I think of having a kind heart. It sounds silly, but it's working! I am being way more patient and not getting so upset and they are responding beautifully! This path that I've been traveling lately is so exciting and is bringing so much joy and happiness to my heart and my life.
"Throughout the day, continually remind yourself that you don't want to harm anybody, that you want to be of service to them, and that you seek to do all actions for the ultimate enlightenment of yourself and others. To remind yourself of this, you can use a frequent event as a trigger to call you back to your motivation. For example, every time you stop at a red light, instead of being irritated and thinking, "Why is this red light so long? I'm late for work!" think, "Today, I want to have a kind heart towards others." Thus the red light becomes an opportunity to remember the kind heart. When the telephone rings, instead of rushing to pick it up, first think, "May I be of service to whomever is on the line." Then answer the phone. Every time your pager goes off, calmly come back to the kind heart, then respond to the call. A friend told me that her trigger to come back to the kind heart was her children calling, "Mommy! Mommy!" Since this happened frequently throughout the day, she became familiar with the kind heart and also was much more patient with her children. "
I've been trying to do this with my kids. Every time they call my name I think of having a kind heart. It sounds silly, but it's working! I am being way more patient and not getting so upset and they are responding beautifully! This path that I've been traveling lately is so exciting and is bringing so much joy and happiness to my heart and my life.
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