Best Practices

[Guest guest]

I found this as one of the best

practices I have encountered:

 

 

At any moment, when I am Aware. . .

 

- Is what I am thinking, doing,

speaking is driven by compassion,

kindness, love, awareness and peace or

is it driven by fear, greed, anger and

unrest?

 

- How, that which I am doing right

now, can serve the cause of compassion,

kindness, love, beauty, peace and growth?

 

 

I have noticed that when I am sure

that what I am doing is actually

serving the cause of compassion, peace

and love and of real learning and

growth - I don't mind any pain if that

is what it feels like in this moment.

 

 

- What I am doing right now, is it

likely to work towards to build a

'habit' [and, thereby building a " me " ]

of compassion, kindness, love,

understanding and peace or is it

likely to build a 'habit [thereby,

change " me " ] of unconsciousness, fear

and greed?

[Guest guest]

I found it very effective

professionally, personally as well as

spiritually to ask three questions

before each activity (irrespective of

the activity being big or small):

 

- What am I doing?

 

- Why* am I doing it?

 

- What is the best way to do it? i.e.

what is the way which best meets the

values, principles and motives that I

want to serve?

 

 

 

 

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* Am I doing, what I am doing, because

of reactivity or revenge, fear or

greed, shame, guilt or lust, anger or

jealousy and thereby strengthening them

further in me. Am I committing a sin,

an unconscious act, that feeds

unconsciousness and pain?

 

Or, am I doing it because of

compassion, kindness, love, peace,

intelligence, reason, understanding and

responsibility and. . . thereby, being

conscious, responsible and peaceful

Right Now and working to build a

conscious, peaceful, kind, 'happy'

'person' [person = 'conditioned' human

and conditioning = habit] as its result.

 

 

Do I really want to gift a kind,

happy, conscious, peaceful person to. . .

the world, and to myself. . .

 

even if it meant Conscious Attention to

Why and How of what I am doing. . . whenever I can?

 

 

 

Or, would I rather an unconscious

" human like " robot driven blindly by

impulses, past conditioning, external

stimuli and . . . escape the conscious effort

involved in being " human " [Conscious]?

 

 

I think, that is a question. . . we do need to answer time to time!