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By the Dalai Lama © 1994 "A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night" by the Dalai Lama The Living Temple of Wisdom Virtues The Holy Code of the Most High Light House Chosen by God as the Rock Foundation of All Religions To Show Us the Way to the Immortality of All Life. This book is required reading for all Stoics. Excerpt, pp. 85
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* * * * we have always sought happiness, and yet, because we have always been dominated by negative emotions, we have only met with
difficulties.
Reborn as humans, birds, deer, insects, and so forth, we have never had
lasting happiness.
nothing to show for all the efforts we have made to be happy
and avoid suffering.
on the Bodhisattva path, we should practice with joy and not be disheartened by the few difficulties that are bound to occur in the
beginning.
bear fruit.
to be applied when, as happens to all of us from time to time, we become physically and mentally exhausted and are unable to continue, however much we try.
not force ourselves, but we should stop and rest so that later whatever we do will be done properly and
completely.
on one particular aspect of the path at a time, it is important to have an overall balance between
the different aspects.
hand in hand with study, without either one being
neglected.
intellectually, we should integrate our understanding with the experience of meditation.
our practice will be
balanced and complete.
with mindfulness and attentiveness, be careful to repel the attacks of negative emotions, putting an end to these enemies of ours so as not to slip into
wrong activities."
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MAY THE WISDOM FORCE BE WITH YOU
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