SUBJECTS FOR REFLEXION
Meditate on the waiting
R.L. Wing in Manual Prático de I Ching
The Wait is a test to self confidence. Believe in the present. Keep the thoughts and words in a positive tone and keep a sure attitude on yourself. By assuming a physical posture of balance and discipline you can achieve a resonance on the spiritual field. The parallelism of interior and exterior fields starts a sensitive conscience and a lightened perception.
Meditation and human development by Genevieve Lewis Paulson - ISBN 972-33-1174-7
Research on Emotional Intelligence
F. Oliveira – Psicóloga da Saúde
While we process cognition, we feel an emotion and it is from the kind of emotion we feel, that we generate the answer. That’s why emotions dictate the quality of human behaviour and the quality of the process of social interaction.
Emocional Capacities to exercise:
Self emotional knowledge– Self conscience: Knowledge of your own feelings or intuition;
Emotional control– Capacity to manage feelings: Integration in any environment or social act.
Self motivation – optimism: Conscience that all problems can be overcome and are soluble.
Recognise emotions in others – Empathy: Place yourself in the place of the other.
Ability in relating inter-personally – Social Aptitude: the capacity of dealing with the group.
Emotions that heal - Daniel Goleman, Conversations with Dalai Lama - ISBN 972-759-310-0
Reflexions:
On Compassion as Prevention
Compassion makes way for psychological balance. It is only necessary the intention, the will. By the simple exercise of compassion, men learn how to sacrifice inferior feelings and open his heart. On Sympathy
David Hume - Human Nature Treat, 1738
"None of the qualities of human nature is more important, as per it self, as per its consequences, then the propensity we have, to sympathize with each other, to receive by communication inclinations and feelings, even if different then ours, or even contrary... "
On Happiness
To speak of happiness we must exit the material ambit and start speaking about something common to all. It’s only from common objectives and common laws that there can be one single direction through where all can reach the same place.
On Responsibility
Kabaleb in Internal Gods
If a men is able to assume the responsibility for all that happens to him that is a real proof of his majority. To understand this idea it is necessary to maintain an attitude of absolute humbleness, without that it is not possible to access light. The key of life is the respect for the four times: the time of the seed (planting an action) the time of the earth (the vase where we plant) the time of the tree (the result of the action over the vase) and the time of the fruit (the new seeds that the tree we planted produced).
On Universal Compassion
By feeling the suffering of the other we start naturally trying to resolve the situation. For that, however it is important that he wants to receive this energy; without that the action occurs externally without reaching his interior which will allow him to get up and walk.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
There are three types of love: affection love, appreciative love and the love that desires everybody to be happy or Grate Love. To want the others to be happy and to try to help them conquering happiness that is the Grate Love. With it, we will make the following decision: "I will give happiness to all living beings ".
Shantideva, Guia de Estilo de Vida do Bodissatva
Prayer of the Grate Love:
‘I offer my virtuous carma to all living beings. May they, thanks to that, be able to obtain, temporarily and ultimately, happiness. ‘Meditation: with this sincere prayer imagine your body transforming into a shining jewel of desires, which rays of light reach the four kingdoms of the Samsara. This light purifies all environments and satisfies completely all the desires of their inhabitants. The hungry spirits are satisfied with food and drinks; animals receive wisdom; human beings satisfy all their desires and needs; the semi gods finally reach peace and satisfaction; and the gods gain freedom. Then retain this feeling of joy and meditate on it for as long as possible.