You too can become a Buddha; Rice and Peas for the Soul - Shirivington Hannays (click here to listen to the audio podcast for this entry)
I have come to realize there is no final destination to arrive at when you consciously choose to embark on the road less traveled. However there is a state of mind and Being that can be realized and maintained in the constant changing Now moment.
Enlightenment is available to everyone. Therefore anyone with a desire to be in oneness with the present moment regardless of what might be appearing in the now moment as a person, situation, event or experience. Buddhism with it's practical approach to living and co-existing with everything in the Universal lends itself easily to this. But life would have to be view and embraced with a different mindset and state of Being than the average human mind set.
Buddhism speaks readily to ways to bring about the shift in your consciousness and mindset to do so. But you first need to accept and embrace the four noble truths, the noble eightfold path and undertake to live by the five precepts. I consciously explore Buddhism’s principles in my daily life because of it’s practical approach to living and its emphasis on everyone taking responsibility for their intentions, choices – conscious and unconscious, actions and reactions.
It may not always be easy to maintain and sometimes I am caught off-guard and have a little “pity party” or re-activate my membership in the “poor me club” for a few hours, days but now at most a week. However, I have come a long way because I was once a board member of the “poor me club”. - - Shirvington Hannays (www.smahoo.com)
Enlightenment is available to everyone. Therefore anyone with a desire to be in oneness with the present moment regardless of what might be appearing in the now moment as a person, situation, event or experience. Buddhism with it's practical approach to living and co-existing with everything in the Universal lends itself easily to this. But life would have to be view and embraced with a different mindset and state of Being than the average human mind set.
Buddhism speaks readily to ways to bring about the shift in your consciousness and mindset to do so. But you first need to accept and embrace the four noble truths, the noble eightfold path and undertake to live by the five precepts. I consciously explore Buddhism’s principles in my daily life because of it’s practical approach to living and its emphasis on everyone taking responsibility for their intentions, choices – conscious and unconscious, actions and reactions.
It may not always be easy to maintain and sometimes I am caught off-guard and have a little “pity party” or re-activate my membership in the “poor me club” for a few hours, days but now at most a week. However, I have come a long way because I was once a board member of the “poor me club”. - - Shirvington Hannays (www.smahoo.com)
