Negative things
Very often I am asked how to deal with the many negative things around us. My answer is simple: ignore them.
Firstly, the term "negative" already contains a valuation (according to the great teacher, we should not judge), secondly, according to Buddha, we should not let these experiences get to us, but simply let them be as they are, take care of ourselves and our environment, because we can not change anything, but be an example to other people with our actions.
Assuming we would gather all inhabitants on the main square and demonstrate together (probably illusory, never all will have the same opinion), would anything really change? No matter how we shout and rant? Probably not. Because it comes so, as it should come, not at all differently.
But if we ourselves wear our wisdom like a loose shirt, become an example through our appearance, then we can perhaps impress the people around us, so that they then "imitate" us. Living the teachings of Buddha outwardly, not just putting up statues in the living room, no, but showing fellow human beings a way out of suffering, just through one's own actions, speech and life.
Negative things are a matter of feeling. If I constantly see news about war and misery, then something changes in me, the war itself does not change a bit. There will be endless suffering whether I know about it or not, only my self changes. But if I wear my attitude "like a loose shirt", then I can show other people that just not everything is only hardship and misery, but that there is a way out of the cycle of suffering.
Here it is (first of all) irrelevant whether I am an awakened yogi, or a "feel-good Buddhist", it is important to set out on the journey, to follow the teacher of all teachers on the path, to "appropriate" the example of the Buddha, so that I can pass on the teaching to my environment. But not by proselytizing, but by presenting a role model whose loose shirt looks so nice, so that the wearer of the shirt seems as he/she is on the right path. And the right way, it doesn't include war and misery, because the person with the right attitude doesn't carry around all the guilt of this world anymore.
If again the conversation comes to negative things, then simply do not participate in it, let the bad energy drip off on you like the water on an umbrella.
Read in the next days further, how you should deal with "negative" things, people and experiences according to my opinion
The way is the goal!
Choose bad never to friends, never to friends the mean.
Seek to unite in noble friendship with the best!
- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero
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