#unskillful

Try to lengthen the scope

Of reasons within my grasp

That'll grant me a fix of affirmation

Something that'll let me stay

Longer than ever

Surrounded by your toasty essence

Where I feel myself ripening

Flowering under your sunlit glance

Reveling in the clement weather

Of your warm emotions

But time snaps them slowly

And like an uncertain February

I remain unskillful

In finding that place

Between your fingers

That'll help me step

DAILY VOCAB

ページ page

下手 ( へた ) unskillful, poor, awkward

ベッド bed

ペット pet

部屋 ( へや ) room

Skillfully-planned New Year’s Resolutions Work Best

It’s New Year’s Day for most cultures, and no doubt many of us have painstakingly worked on lists of all the things that we are going to do to improve ourselves in 2016.  Most of those will be focused on all the “good” things we are going to nurture, and all the “bad” habits we are going to cast by the wayside.  

Inevitably, we will fail in most of them. The reason is simple: such resolutions…

by Bill

A poor self-image is connected to low self-esteem, and self-image is one of the biggest negative issues in recovery.  In order to recover, we need to avoid defining ourselves in terms of our “character defects” and “shortcomings.”  Yes, when working on the 4th and 5th Steps we need to consider these things, but as any good sponsor will tell you, we also list and discuss the goodthings…

For anyone who wants to make a robot. But are unskillful to do it.

AN 2.19

'Rather than dividing thoughts into classes like "good" and "bad," Buddhist thinkers prefer to regard them as "skillful" versus "unskillful." An unskillful thought is one connected with greed, hatred, or delusion. These are the thoughts that the mind most easily builds into obsessions. They are unskillful in the sense that they lead you away from the goal of Liberation. Skillful thoughts, on the other hand, are those connected with generosity, compassion, and wisdom. They are skillful in the sense that they may be used as specific remedies for unskillful thoughts, and can thus assist you toward Liberation.'

I have to say - there are so many wonderful dharma quotes.

Its counterbalanced with many false statements with a picture of buddha - someone's mis-understanding.

You really need to take it easy - dharma is all of experience, it is teachings, phenomena. Yet it is meant to be used to share authentic experience - that means it may lose it's meaning when a student decides to share it. That student may imply, use out of context or share the wrong thing with the wrong audience.

Buddha said a lot of different things, at different times to people at different stages of the path. Not everything is meant to be shared, it is freely offered but usually as part of a guided study. Not just random inspired quotes ... be careful. Study with a teacher.

I am a monk, and i write poems, i take photos and i don't call it all dharma. It might be coloured with my experiences, it might be contemplations that draw on the dharma but i want it just to be my shared blog and not act like it is coming from Buddha or that i am some authority. That is what i have learned - we can write, share, create but we shouldn't abuse Buddha and put words in his mouth. Some of the things are extreme and might have the effect of confusing or causing people to reject the dharma ... can you really accept that responsibility?