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'One Who Knows Does Not Think, Speak Or Write...': Why Do We Break Our Resolutions?

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    • CommentAuthorCarl
    • CommentTimeMar 12th 2006 edited
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    Often we say it is because we lack of discipline. Nope! A thousand time Nope!

    We break our resolutions because we lack understanding, in the Buddhist sense of the word - knowing in the Taoist sense. When we know, action follows naturally. It is easy because there is no other way. It is difficult because the 'self' - "I" - is helpless in this matter and fleet-footed desires pull us off onto by-paths.

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    So what do we do? I'm exercising more, but I would like to eat less. Discipline never works for me; you're right about that. Any suggestions?

    • CommentAuthorCarl
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2006 edited
     # 3
    Lynn Cornish:

    So what do we do.... Any suggestions?

    Always!... :lol:

    Seriously, the only thing I've found that works is knowing. When I truly know, I can't help but do, or not do, as the case may be. Actually, I only know what I know by being aware of what I do and don't do, i.e., my actions reflect my knowing. This approach helps me be self honest and avoid hypocrisy. It also makes life simple. All I need to do is be patient and wait for deep knowing.

    True knowing is like the teaching that uses no words. It is that by which we all move through life. We just 'believe' we are in control because we desire to be in control. Our desire leads to words, which leads to thoughts, which leads to us thinking that we 'know'. Thus, to know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

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    So, the way I understand this, to put this into practice, when I experience the compulsion to get a handful of cashew nuts, I can return to true knowing, aka, stillness, and let it go. It sounds a little like quitting drinking which is not done by will power but by "turning our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand him(/her/it)." It is done through surrender.

    I tried this yesterday and it worked...no snacks all day.

    • CommentAuthorCarl
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2006 edited
     # 5

    That's why we say it is easy!

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