Even as a great rock is not shaken by the wind, the wise man is not shaken by praise or blame.
-Buddha
Namaste
Peace and Love
2007-08-03 10:51:54 · 10 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is a path to walk to acquire balance. At the beginning of the path is knowledge. Without knowing what we are intending, we have no purpose behind our steps. The second part of the journey is about answers. Without knowledge, we cannot receive the answers we need to continue on our journey. The third part is all about experiencing life fueled by the knowledge and answers we have acquired. Knowledge and answers become substance; experience becomes the form. Without form, there is no substance; without substance there is no form. Working with both form and substance enables us to find the synergy of the yin/yang essence that we are.
This is how I found balance. This is how I remain in balance.
2007-08-03 11:02:06 · answer #1 · answered by Shihan 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Buddha seems to refer to detachment and equanimity. One can be grateful for the love enveloped in an act of praise offered, but it is not personal any more than an attack is personal. There truly is no person. What You are is much more 'solid' and permanent than a set of characteristics, accomplishments, failures, talents, what we call a personality.
The definitions that form the imaginary ego as a means of strengthening the self, are actually the source of weakness, as any event or person may come along and threaten that definition, thereby threatening the self.
Seek to know what You are beyond all such fragile definitions. The rock is not shaken by the wind because the wind has no power to define rockness, and the rock has no need to define itself by the wind.
2007-08-05 02:45:07 · answer #2 · answered by philmeta11 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had to go away and think about this. And even so I'm not sure about my answer! But here goes...
Yes, I believe I have (for the most part) found a degree of balance. And it was not by learning to duck when the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune were waged against me, but by allowing them to hit me.
And (oh, this is so difficult to explain!) oddly enough I found to my surprise that they didn't hurt. In fact, they just appeared (again, for the most part!) to just go straight through!
So while previously I'd be wobbling like crazy trying to get out the way, now I just 'walk on' unperturbed.
How did I get like this? Well (and a blog entry is due here I think) I do believe that the 'mellowness' of age has helped! The knowledge and hence confidence that life's stings are not after all so troublesome. And that things that are 'bad' (whatever That means!) inevitably get 'better'. And vice versa.
Which doesn't mean that I am not shaken by great rock. Metallica for example! *chuckle*
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2007-08-04 10:32:23 · answer #3 · answered by Wood Uncut 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Dig!
Finding the balance between the cynical skeptic, hiding, guarding, protecting, and the open minded, exposed, trusting brave heart.....is one of my greatest challenges. When I have nothing else to hide, and no more shame, I will be truly free.......
Peace
2007-08-03 23:04:11 · answer #4 · answered by Valerie C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not quite there
I do get shaken still
Namaste xx
2007-08-03 17:54:56 · answer #5 · answered by ☮ Pangel ☮ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just too the right of Bass and Treble
2007-08-03 18:08:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Balance, at my level of practice is a tricky thing... I look really bad on the wire. LOL
_()_
2007-08-03 18:22:15 · answer #7 · answered by vinslave 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Walk a tight rope - You will find your balance! (I have!)
Peace to you too!
X X X
nikki x
2007-08-04 12:10:57 · answer #8 · answered by *~☺~* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah - I have a chip on both shoulders.
CD
2007-08-03 17:56:21 · answer #9 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice post. Thanks.
2007-08-03 17:55:28 · answer #10 · answered by Jack P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋