Category: Goal Setting

Contemplando la Enfermedad Parte 4 – Descansando en la Tolerancia – 27 de Agosto del 2018

Las enfermedades que deben contemplarse como ya se ha dicho no incluyen aquellas que se toman como un medio para educar o instruir a alguien en el Dharma. Lo que queda es la amplia gama de enfermedades kármicas, o enfermedades que son nuestras porque tenemos un cuerpo físico. En este caso estamos hablando de karma en un sentido amplio y general y no de ninguna enfermedad kármica específica. Además del sufrimiento de la enfermedad, existe…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13j – January 21, 2019

Next is the instruction to straighten one’s body.  This can be problematic for many who are sick, especially with some internal injuries and with skeletal challenges.  Here is my thinking on this, and I insert my thinking here because Chih-I doesn’t talk about this in his writing, the challenges of not being able to straighten one’s body. Currently I am going to the Veterans Administration Hospital here in Syracuse three days a week for various…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13i – January 20, 2019

Chih-I talks quite a lot about compassion and how important it is to cultivate when one has dis-ease, disease, and illness.  As I have been studying this text I am struck by the direction he suggests compassion needs to flow.   Usually when compassion is mentioned, at lease in the medical settings I’ve been in and the other conversations I’ve read and heard outside hospitals, the direction of compassion goes from the healthy towards the…

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Contemplating Disease – Ten Characteristics – Part 12f – December 29, 2018

When a person is ill time is measured differently than generally when healthy.  In some instances especially when pain is present time can seem as if it stands still or even goes backward.  Has it ever happened to you when you’re in pain and you have said something to the effect that things seem to be going backwards getting worse rather than better?  Perhaps not. Time, Chih-I advises is to be not even considered a…

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