A New Year & What Would Buddha Do?

This is a meditation for the new year (2021 and beyond!) that includes a prologue of a reading from the book What Would Buddha Do? As the new year is often about change, I've chosen a reading that addresses changing. The music is calming, soothing, and has a positive intent to it. I hope you can feel all those things!

Transcript

Hello everyone and welcome to 2021. I hope you had a healthy and enjoyable Christmas and that the new year holds for you some positive potential. Before we move into the music I thought I would read something for you from one of my favorite books. This is called What Would Buddha Do? 101 Answers to Life's Daily Dilemmas by Franz Metcalf and it's published by Seastone it looks like and it's basically what it says on the tin 101 Answers to Life's Daily Dilemmas from a Buddhist perspective. So it ranges from rather mundane questions such as what would Buddha do when bored or what would Buddha do when maxing out his credit card to slightly more profound questions such as the one I'm going to read today which is what would Buddha do about changing other people. So the idea behind the book is that it asks the question then there is a quote from a Buddhist text or a Buddhist teacher and then there's an expansion on that idea and an explanation to provide more insight into the into the question. So here we go. What would Buddha do about changing other people? Here's the quote. Do not examine the limitations of others. Examine how you can change your own. And that's from the from the Dakini teachings one. Do not examine the limitations of others. Examine how you can change your own. And here is the commentary. So brief and so powerful. This is a lightning strike of wisdom. We never get anywhere dwelling on changing others yet we indulge in it all the time. It's our excuse for not changing ourselves. This is why the most annoying limitations of other people just happen to be exactly the ones we have too. When I teach college classes I must examine the limitations of my students. In doing so I try to teach them to do this themselves. If I fail them sometimes literally I have failed myself. Looking briefly at their limitations I see deeply into my own. Even when we must attend to others limitations we learn most when we turn the examination to ours. Changing ourselves is not only the best way to help ourselves it is the best way to help others. So I now invite you to meditate using my music. You can meditate on what I've just read or not or in something else whatever you choose. And I wish you, Your family, Your friends, Your loved ones, Your tribe, Your nation and the whole world all the very very very best. Thanks. Bye bye. You you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you

Reviews

as you said, this is " a lightning strike of wisdom."
This comes to me when I am ready to hear it. Many thanks 😊❤

Wonderful! Thank you 🙏🙏🙏