Title: The Dalai
Lama’s Cat
Author: David Michie
Publication: Hay
House
Genre: General
Fiction
Source: Kindle
Edition
Rating: 4/5
Past Days .. I was
reading ‘ The Dalai Lama’s cat ‘ and learnt something from it .. I just
wanted to share it . Worthwhile I think …!
“It is good, very
good, to acknowledge a problem with anger,” he continued.
“I’ve been high
strung my whole life,” she said.
“Sometimes we know
we need to change our behavior. But it requires some sort of shock for us to
realize we must change. Starting now.
” “Sì.” Mrs. Trinci
gulped down another wave of tears.
“But how?”
“Begin by
considering the advantages of practicing patience and the disadvantages of not
practicing it,” the Dalai Lama told her.
“When one is
angry, the first person to suffer is oneself. No one who is angry has a happy,
peaceful mind.”
Mrs. Trinci looked
at him intently with red-rimmed eyes.
“We also need to
think about the impact on others. When we say hurtful things we don’t really
mean, we can create deep wounds that can’t be healed. Think of all the rifts
between friends and within families, divisions that have led to a complete
breakdown in the relationship, all because of a single angry outburst.”
“I know!”
Mrs. Trinci wailed.
“Next, “Next, we ask ourselves, where is this
anger coming from? If the true cause of anger is the fridge or the gas or the
lack of raspberries, then why isn’t everyone else angry at these things?
You see, the
anger isn’t coming from out there. It’s coming from our mind. And that is a
good thing, because we can’t control everything around us in the world, but we
can learn to control our own mind.”
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