Loving Kindness

It is not proper to watch other people. This will not help your practice. If you are annoyed, watch the annoyance in your own mind. If others' discipline is bad or they are not good monks, this is not for you to judge. You will not discover wisdom watching others. Monk’s discipline is a tool to use for your own meditation. It is not a weapon to use to criticize or find fault. No one can do your practice for you, nor can you do practice for anyone else. Just be mindful of your own doings. This is the way to practice.

Ajahn Chah,

365 Buddha,

Bodhinyana

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It is about kindness… loving-kindness: loving-kindness for others but mostly for my own sake. Just as I am to mind my own business where others are concerned, I am to mind my own business about my own defects of character: note them, check them and let go of them. One of my favorite people in AA says; “It’s none of my business what others think of how I work my program.” This does more than imply the other side of the coin; “It is none of my business how others are working their program.” The Steps and Traditions of AA are for my own protection and development. If ever I think I am above or have transcended such advice, I am in trouble because automatically, by thinking this way, I believe in my heart that the advice is for you and certainly not about me. Can I do this on my own? Is this task too difficult to achieve of my own efforts? It is, but the Heart of Compassion can do anything! Anything! Let the Heart of Compassion envelope my spirit for it to flow outward from my heart.

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