Saturday, January 28, 2012

Tools for today: Are you sure?


Great exercise for cleaning up erroneous perception... "Are you sure?"

Looking Deeply into Perceptions—Are You Sure? Then we meditate on our perceptions. The Buddha observed, The person who suffers most in this world is the person with many wrong perceptions…. And most of our perceptions are erroneous. We see a snake in the dark and we panic, but when our friend shines a light on it, we see that it is only a rope. We have to know which wrong perceptions cause us to suffer. Please calligraph the sentence, “Are you sure?” on a piece of paper and tape it to your wall. Love meditation helps us to learn to look with clarity and serenity in order to improve the way we perceive.
Thich Nhat Hahn

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