There are many lessons to learn from
Buddha, but here are 5 pieces of wisdom that could change you life for the
better.
Live Compassionately – Do you know what compassion is? It is the sympathetic pity and/or concern for
the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
And it is easily one of the most prolific qualities in Buddhism, as
compassion is a great indicator of a highly-realized human being.
Living with compassion means wanting to
truly know and understand those that occupy your life. Compassion is what allows us to find inner
peace, it gives us the ability to forgive ourselves, the ability to heal old wounds
and to remain resilient during times of adversity.
But at its very core, compassion is
about acknowledging the inherent goodness that is in every person and
connecting with others in genuine ways.
Wake Up – There’s power in living in such a way that you are fully awake
for each and every moment of your life.
When you submit to the moment, letting everything else fade away, it
will change every aspect of your life (in a positive way).
Be mindful, be aware. When you’re focused on living in each moment
of each day, you’re able to accomplish more.
Overcoming obstacles in life, finding inner peace and growing
organically are all results of being awake for every moment.
Embrace Death – To overcome the daunting notion of our own mortality, one
must embrace the fact that death is just as natural as life. Each and every one of us did not exist for
hundreds of millions of years and it never bothered a soul.
Acknowledging and accepting that we are
not permanent fixtures in this world helps us more deeply understand the interconnectedness
of everything in our world. Students of
Buddhism are often asked to “meditate on the corpse” as a part of this
acceptance. They literally meditate on
an image of a corpse, being asked to visualize and imagine the process in its
entirety.
Eventually, it is hoped that the
individual meditating will have a profound realization about the nature of
death and its place in the world.
Disarm Ego – The ego is a profound phenomena. And it is often the most prominent obstacles
that lie on our path to spiritual enlightenment. Spirituality comes from being completed
grounded in our realities or our being.
The ego often stands in the way of finding inner peace and happiness
because it deals mainly with convincing us that we are separate from ourselves.
The ego pulls us away from our
grounding in reality. It’s deeply
ingrained in our being and it has been for years, so it can be a lengthy
process untangling the mess. But it’s definitely
worth it.
Change Yourself, Change
the World – One of the greatest things that
Buddhists understand and advocate is knowing yourself. How can you possibly help others to find who
they are without fully understanding who you yourself are? In saying this I do not mean that you must
attain great riches or power in order to facilitate change, in fact just the
opposite.
Once one understands that we are all
interconnected, then it only stands to reason that by bettering one’s self you
better the whole simultaneously. The
best way to achieve this understanding of interconnectedness is by getting rid
of the notion of “you or them.” We’re
all in this together.
Source : the-open-mind