Our Mother Nature has provided us with these immeasurably valuable teachers that blossom despite their short lifespan, stars that continue to shine even if we fail to stare at them, and trees that don't take it personally if we never bow down in gratitude for the oxygen they provide.


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We also have an incredible and unlimited capacity to love, but the question is: Without needing to be admired, adored, or even noticed? Can we open our hearts completely to give, forgive, celebrate, and joyfully live our lives without hesitation or need for reciprocity? It seems like sometimes we go beyond taking things personally and are noticeably deflated when unappreciated.

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In-fact, devastated, we wilt in sorrow and then attempt to guard ourselves by withholding, using all sorts of protections and defenses. We get hurt even angry , if our boss fails to recognize an astonishing feat, if a lover pulls their hand away, or when a friend forgets our birthday.

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Can you imagine a flower copping an attitude for not being praised, or the moon dimming its glow because we're too self-absorbed to notice it more often? Where we are today is a direct result of decisions we've made as far back as ten years or lifetimes ago, and as recently as last night.

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We have a tremendous personal responsibility for the way our life has turned out, and an equally important role of steering it into the future. Although we constantly make decisions, we're not always mindful of their far-reaching consequences.


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    • The first step is to have a very clear idea of the kind of life you want to live perhaps a simple life, uncomplicated, comfortable, calm and happy. Then, before making any decision, ask yourself, "Will this get me closer to the kind of life I want to live, or farther from it?

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    The path of LEAST resistance will often take you farther from your destination than the seemingly more difficult one, but an easy trek in the wrong direction is ultimately far more exhausting and devastating than an uphill climb toward euphoria. Every decision you make is important. If you smoke now, for example, you might not be able to donate a lung to your own child in the future. And if you have more money than you need while someone else doesn't have enough to buy food, you're not changing the state of the world, you're contributing to it.

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    Instead of looking to blame others for your dilemmas, look within. It is very possible and perfectly okay for people who are Catholic, Muslim or Jewish, for example, to still find the Buddha's teachings motivational. There is absolutely no reason to argue over which religion came "first" or whose philosophy is "better". The important thing is to be kind, understanding, peaceful and compassionate, which is actually fundamental in all religions and schools of thought. Regardless of religion or geographical region, race, ethnicity, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, flexibility or vulnerability, if you do good, you feel good, and if you do bad, you feel bad.


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    And all that Jazz! To make a long story short I sat there in front of the Tibetan Lama, wearing my maroon robes after years of studying Buddhism and said, "With all due respect, I don't believe the Buddha ever intended for his teachings to get THIS complicated! My teacher looked around at all the statues of deities with multiple arms and chuckled, "The Buddha didn't do this! The Tibetan culture did; this is their way.

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    Why don't you try Zen? I think you'd like it! So I bowed-out of the temple, took off my robes, and moved into a Zen monastery far from home. Zen was simpler; that much was true the walls were blank and I loved it , but the teachings were still filled with all the dogma that sent me running from religion in the first place. There are many incredible books out there that cover all aspects of religion, philosophy, psychology and physics, but I was looking for something less "academic", so to speak. I was looking for something inspirational that people today would not only have the attention span to read all the way through, but actually understand and also implement in their daily lives.