Daily Dalai Lama Wisdom

The fey to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of the way our thoughts and emotions work.
We need to learn how to identify the opposing sides in our inner conflicts.
With anger, for example, we need to see how destructive anger is, and, at the same time, realize that there are antidotes within our own thoughts and emotions that we can use to counter it.
So, first, by understanding that afflictive thoughts and emotions are destructive and negative, and, second, by trying to strengthen ou positive thoughts and emotions, which are their antidotes, we can gradually reduce the force of our anger, hatred and so on.

Kelley-Anne Rasmussen
agreed! Sometimes it is VERY hard to change a negative thought to a positive one, so it is easier to change to feel ANY positive thought, just to break the negative stream... thinking of my animals works, then onto wildnerness, the Source, the Oneness and back to the negative with a bit more positi...
  • July 17, 2012
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Blue Angel
Gratitude is my favourite antidote. Big up to the sky Buddha Simon.
  • July 17, 2012
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