October 7, 2016

We Don't Have To Know Everything

We always want to know all the facts. We don't like it when things are ambiguous. The problem is the universe is too large for us to know everything. This is where our minds make up stories. We fill in the gaps, and most of the time we get it wrong. We say it must be destiny, karma or gods will, anything but admit the fact we don't know. One of the beauties of human life is the fact that we don't know how it all really works. Embrace this fact and simply enjoy how life is unfolding.

Anger is always bad

Psychologists advise us to express our anger. Buddhism would disagree because acting out on anger makes it easier to do so again in the fu...