Values

What are your values? If you don't have any, you risk to be caught, subconsciously, in the common consumeristic culture.

If you see that you are dependent on a lot of things, you will be more free and your values will probably change;
It's impossible to be alone - you are made of water, the sun, mud, your ancestors and so on. And if you look closely, you can even see that you are made of the people you meet on a daily basis. They influence you, in good ways and in bad ways...

If you live in an environment that  are unfriendly, you have to take actions. If you can't move away, you have to take good care of yourself; take time to be with yourself and just be with the breath. But you should also take the time to be with friendly people and with nature.

If you deep inside have the value to try not to heart other beings, it will make it easier.

If you have to meet unfriendly people at, for instance, work, the situation will get even worse if  also  you will lose your temper.
If you can, you can use your compassion and try to understand the person. You don't have to change or rescue the person, but you can show that you accept and value him/her. But it can be good to keep some space around you when you are in contact with a hostile environment.

If you can have compassion  for yourself as a living being you will show the same for your surroundings.

So it all starts with yourself, but remember that you are a part of everything else.

The words "I" and "mine", should be used with humor and some warm distance....

In some way we also are dependent on every child that are starving and every tree that are cut down....

In some way it is like Dostoyevsky used to write; "we are all responsible for everyone else."

But you can turn it around; everyone is in some way responsible for you - because, as already Leonardo da Vinci realised; ..."everything connects to everything else".

As you can see; those truths are not limited to buddhist thinkers....











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