Are you a realist?
A true Buddhist can only be a realist!
There are the most different people with the most different views.
One group sees the world as it should be in their imagination, the "dreamers".
Another group sees everything quite black and gloomy, the "melancholics".
Still, other people see the world in a kinky and weird way, the "perverts".
There are also people who see everything through a fog of alcohol and/or drugs, the "stunned".
Still, other people see everything in the world as fun, the "funny ones."
Others only ever want to help, the "Mother Theresa types."
Another group sees the world from the position of a leader, the "leader".
In today's totally disturbing world, very few people see the world as it really is, realistically.
Buddha exhorted us to take the right knowledge as the basis of our actions and to follow it with the right speech, action, and behavior. Simply put, to be a realist, not to want to bend things to fit our particular views, but to accept them as they really are.
HENCE MY QUESTION:
ARE YOU A REALIST?
Can you try for just one day to check all your views, decisions, and actions to see if they correspond to reality?
THE UTOPIAN SEES PARADISE, THE REALIST PARADISE PLUS SNAKE
- FRIEDRICH HEBBEL - GERMAN DRAMATIST - 1813 TO 1863
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