Showing posts with label NYC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NYC. Show all posts
Monday, October 25, 2010
Living the Dharma in NYC (6am)
My upstairs neighbor is so kind to wake me up every morning at 6am. I normally get up at 7 or 7:30 but 6am is a good time to practice compassion and not yell obscenities as loud as I can. 6am gives me an extra hour of meditation time and I need it to transform my resentment into gratitude that I don't have to get up at 6am like my poor neighbor.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Living the Dharma in NYC (slow walkers)
It is not good karma to curse the slow walkers under my breath. I should be grateful for their kind teaching on patience. I am not more important than they are.
Perhaps they have pain when they walk. Perhaps they have nowhere to go. Perhaps they know it annoys me to death that they are in my way and take great pleasure in showing me what a hurrying bitch I am.
Repeat as needed:
It is not good karma to curse the slow walkers under my breath. I should be grateful for their kind teaching on patience. I am not more important than they are.
Perhaps they have pain when they walk. Perhaps they have nowhere to go. Perhaps they know it annoys me to death that they are in my way and take great pleasure in showing me what a hurrying bitch I am.
Repeat as needed:
It is not good karma to curse the slow walkers under my breath. I should be grateful for their kind teaching on patience. I am not more important than they are.
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