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- Annie B. Bond
- July 5, 2003
- 12:52 am
- 28 comments
How can we make and sustain true change for the better in our lives? There are three steps to understanding any subject well enough to manifest true change, according to the Dalai Lama. Here they are–the three levels, stages, or steps to true change, from the Dalai Lama’s book An Open Heart:
1. Understanding through listening (to subject matter taught by experienced teachers).
2. Understanding derived through contemplation (processing the teaching to the point of profound conviction).
3. Understanding derived through meditation (the mind becomes completely absorbed by the subject matter).
Note that The Dalai Lama believes it is important to implement these three levels, or stages of practice in a consecutive manner.
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Annie B. Bond
Annie is a renowned expert in non-toxic and green living. Named one of the top 20 environmental leaders by Body and Soul Magazine, Annie has authored four books, including "Home Enlightenment" (Rodale Press, 2005) and "Better Basics for the Home" (Three Rivers Press, 1999).
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+ add your ownWe are each one exactly where we should be. We are in the process of change.
Some of us believe in a higher power. Some of us don't. In this world formed on the basis of opposites: good-bad, hot-cold, heaven-hell all opposites must exist until they find balance embracing one another.
The believer and the skeptic are opposite poles,. Both must exist in this lower world.
I am grateful I do not have to play the role of skeptic or atheist. I would be angry, bitter, accusing, prideful....you know the stage lines.
I am grateful I do not have to play the role of the would be evangelist. I would be scared, stubborn, accusing, prideful......you know the stage lines.
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So easy to read but that is a lot of wisdom packed into three sentences. I am going to have to think and meditate on it now.
Silence and reflection can truly heal the world. The world is consumed by too much of everything,
be the change you wish to see in the world!
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Thankyou for this article.
All true. It's such a shame so many people talk way more than they listen, blithely act without stopping to contemplate the consequences and fill their mind with nonsense clutter like pointless mobile phone conversations and general busyness.
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