Namaste
Peace and Love
2007-08-26 02:40:49 · 22 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I usually live for others as to care for me, the god is standing behind me...
All of them have god that save them but i wanna reduce some work on god by helping others..
2007-08-26 02:44:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not to please others, for then you are talking about pleasure and gratification which is grasping at self and ego - both yours and that of others. But to reduce the suffering of others, absolutely. It has been an interesting life experience, but once I came to a place where I stopped worrying about "acceptance" and could just work on living the honest, ethical, loving life that my Buddhist ethics prescribe, I found that people became a lot more interested in the real me and in relating to me on a deeper, truer and less superficial level. So I've dropped the pretense of pleasing others, replaced it with a commitment to reducing suffering where ever possible, and letting the chips fall where they may.
2007-08-26 09:47:01 · answer #2 · answered by buddhamonkeyboy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I try to do my best to live a life that is pleasing to God. It's not MY life, I'm just a steward of the time, talents and treasures that God has put partially under my control.
As a result, most people are pleased with the way that I live my life, with the notable exception being people who like to give me thumbs down here at Y/A when I repeat what God has to say about a question asked.
John 15:18 "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Luke 6:22 "Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! 23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. ..."Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. 26 "Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
OT false prophet from the Message translation.
Micah 2:11 If someone showed up with a good smile and glib tongue and told lies from morning to night-- 'I'll preach sermons that will tell you how you can get anything you want from God: More money, the best wines . . . you name it'-- you'd hire him on the spot as your preacher!
2007-08-26 09:52:38 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just bought a copy of the DVD of "The Fountainhead," if that answers it for you.
I'm a Libertarian. I live for myself. But I like having a pleasant community of people who cooperate, so I am generally pretty cooperative. I enjoy being able to trust my neighbors, so I am trustworthy. It's a question of enlightened self-interest. Look beyond yourself to your environment, realizing that it's hell being the only good person in a rotten world. Help others by your good example, and help them otherwise to the extent you do not sacrifice what you or your family needs.
2007-08-26 09:48:08 · answer #4 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I try to live my life by the golden rule, I am not out to "please" other people, but I do try and treat everyone with common human decency,
However, if I am not infringing on the rights of someone else, and for some reason, they are "displeased" with me, I consider that THEIR problem not mine.
2007-08-26 09:45:07 · answer #5 · answered by queenthesbian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is my life all the way. I risked total alienation by my family to follow the path I believe is meant for me. I live to please my man, because that is just the way I am . . . but I am who I am with him, and he accepts me for all my nuttiness, if you will, and understands that I will not change for him.
So it is a pleasing from the perspective of (oh, dare I admit this) servitude to the man I love because that is how I perceive relationships to be; but my relationship to myself is of utmost importance, and will not be denied regardless of my servitude to another.
(((Digilook)))
2007-08-26 20:20:54 · answer #6 · answered by Shihan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I learned at an early age that I hear a different drummer. Acceptance has never been a priority.
2007-08-26 09:44:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Course In Miracles teaches to be the dreamer of our own dream, not a passive figure in another's dream.
Think less, BE more.
2007-08-26 10:06:05 · answer #8 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh it is all my own life...and most people disapprove of me too...if someone doesn't I lose my balance because I have lived my life with that negative force to push against...
2007-08-26 09:51:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is my life inside my house and it is society's life when I am out in the streets.I shall have to abide by the norms of he civil society.
2007-08-26 09:44:36 · answer #10 · answered by Infinity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋