Could you make a daily effort to:
Remove anger from your life
Cultivate love
Stabilize your mind
Conceal your accomplishments
Praise others accomplishments
Reveal your own shortcomings
Not reveal others shortcomings (unless with compassion)
Recognize all people as spiritual teachers
Take no pleasure in negative actions
Remove procrastination and laziness from your life
Speak peacefully and truthfully
Smile
Give freely
Abandon envy
?
2006-09-22 20:43:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I truly wish it were possible to be that human.
2006-09-22 20:47:50 · answer #1 · answered by Jhan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see:
Remove anger from your life: No. Anger is necessary, and so are all other feelings.
Cultivate love: I'm doing that already.
Stabilize your mind: If only I knew how!
Conceal your accomplishments: Not by any means! What's wrong with that? You and your Christian morality!!!
Praise others accomplishments: I already do that.
Reveal your own shortcomings: Again, you and your morality! What would be the use of that? And I don't mean to hide them. But why should I reveal them? I do, but only to a few carefully selected people.
Not reveal others shortcomings (unless with compassion): Right. I should not say what I think of the people who are screwing me, right? Well, that's the kind of religious morality I've been complaining about, because it's terribly prejudicial to us all.
Recognize all people as spiritual teachers: No, that would be a lie. Not all people are my spiritual teachers. And you would be terribly unfair to your real spiritual teachers, if you put them at the same level as those you can learn nothing from.
Take no pleasure in negative actions: I'm a human being. I'm not about to do that.
Remove procrastination and laziness from your life: Oh, come on! Here we go again. No. I am NOT going to make my single smallest effort for that.
Speak peacefully and truthfully: Only to those who do that for me, too.
Smile: Only to those who do that for me, too.
Give freely: Only to those who do that for me, too.
Abandon envy: You don't choose to be envious. You are or aren't. And if I work on that, it's only and exclusively for my own sake. Nobody else is hurt, if I'm envious.
EDIT: Oops! I guess now you aren't a Christian, right? Well, anyway. Substitute "religious" for "Christian" wherever I put it before this paragraph.
2006-09-23 03:55:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, except recognizing ALL people as spiritual teachers. I might try to recognize the voice of God in people, but there are many people speaking in this day that I refuse to recognize as spiritual teachers.
2006-09-23 03:50:15 · answer #3 · answered by reformed 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do 11 out of 14 consistently, and still working on the rest.
2006-09-26 01:49:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever since I was rebaptized I have tried hard to accomplish most of this and yes I will gladly continue and try harder. L need God ore now than ever.
2006-09-23 03:49:02 · answer #5 · answered by wolfy1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry gave all that up after being an abused walmart worker for 3 years. teach all those people to treat service industry people with respect, and maybe it will come back.
2006-09-23 03:47:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I do.
I also add Praise Jesus as Lord and Savior to my daily routine.
2006-09-23 03:48:50 · answer #7 · answered by Slave to JC 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Not that it requires god to do those things. Everyone should make efforts to better themselves.
2006-09-23 03:52:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
wouldnt that be nice
2006-09-23 03:58:13 · answer #9 · answered by eightieschick70 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋