"Every situation in life is an opportunity to create value"

"Our future is not determined by our past; our future is determined by what we do in the present"

"The notion that attaining enlightenment means that one will forever be free of obstacles and negative functions is not Buddhism. Rather, the Buddha's immense state of life provides the inner strength and power to be able to fearlessly confront such onslaughts and to bring forth the necessary wisdom and action to triumph over them."
Daisaku Ikeda
Art of Living magazine
Feb 2006 p11

 

Principles of Buddhism

...applying them practically to life, work and business

• Buddhism teaches that life isn't a series of events that 'happen' to you, iin a way that's unrelated to how you conduct yourself. Rather, it's a process that you can very much affect, take charge of, and influence positively. Buddhism is about getting your life - and other people's lives - to work better.
  
• Every individual has the latent potential of buddhahood - positive qualities such as courage, wisdom and compassion - as well as the opposite, negative potential with qualities like fearfulness, greed or ignorance. Buddhist practice is the endeavour to live in a way that brings our our more positive potential for the benefit of ourselves andothers.
  
• Our lives unfold in terms of cause and effect. To improve results we can
  1. make positive causes in the present so as to create positive effects in the future
  2. address negative results produced in the present by negative causes we made in the past
  
• The Buddhist principle of esho funi teaches that the external events and experiences that happen to us are ultimately most influenced by what we create within ourselves - our thoughts, feelings and actions.
  
• Difficulties and challenges inevitably arise in life; what we need is a way of dealing with them to best effect, rather than giving up or falling apart. Buddhism offers an alternative to wishing that these things would go away - a strategy of seeking to create value out of these disasters, tragedies and other unwelcomed events. This draws out our capacity to grow and develop in a way that would not otherwise be possible. These unpleasant experiences have the further value of understanding enabling compassion for others who might experience them.
  
• Gratitude is an excellent antidote to misery, difficult as it may often seem. Even when things are dire, howoever, there's still a lot to be grateful for - eg having friends or family, of simply being alive. Buddhism teaches that cultivating this sense of appreciation transforms our experience of life - and draws to us more positive responses from other people and from life.
  
• Conversely, an attitude of complaining and blaming other people or circumstances for our problems takes away our power to transform and improve our circumstances.
  
• The buddhist concept of karma (or cause and effect) is much misunderstood. Here's a link to a more in-depth look at it....(under construction)
  ...and here's a link to a humorous look at it...
  

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