Do Something so you don’t regret later…..
You know what??? Sitting around and not doing anything is FAILURE.
If you try, you have a chance to make it. If you don't try, then you give no chance to winning.
The time is going to pass anyway, so why don't you let it pass achieving something really meaningful.
One facet that laziness arises from is fear of failing. Another facet is fear of winning! That is right. Sometimes we have programmed ourselves to lose that it is scary to win. When we win, we have expectations from others that we think we can't handle. But turn that around. If we don't think of them as expectations then it is not so bad. We should think that we are inspiring people.
Yes, little old you can inspire people. Haven't the simplest people in the past brought inspiration to you? Well we are one of those 'simple' people and we have the power to win if we keep trying. If we persist and we don't give up. Giving up is the easy way out. But is it a real way out or just increasing our fears?
Don't wait. It is glorious to fail, to be laughed at, to be joked about, because when you finally make it, it sure is sweeter in the end……….anyways they are really laughing about themselves subconsciously without even realizing.
So simple, If you want something you never had, then do something you never did, is the quote I took from the above that is totally inspiring. I didn't write this quote, but I am sharing with you. Please pass it to others and be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve by doing it one day at a time.
Good luck and prayers to all of you,
Tsem Tulku
I love this!! “If you try, you have a chance to make it. If you don’t try, then you give no chance to winning.
The time is going to pass anyway, so why don’t you let it pass achieving something really meaningful.”
This particular blog speaks to me in the most profound way. Here I am, this ex-Queen of Sloth who is hell bent on becoming something more than a fat domesticated self-indulgent pet. I am going to go all the way and woul rather die trying than sit in my bed and rot the years away.
Shirley, I love your humor and the way you put things.
I agree with the statement above: “It is glorious to fail”
If it were not for my failures, I would have had no need to seek out the Dharma. My failures have all been camouflaged successes.
One thing that I always repeat to myself to ensure that I never entertain ideas of giving up is THE BEST IS YET TO COME! I really believe that for myself and my path. My best years in the Dharma are ahead of me if I keep at it and never give up. How can I give up when I haven’t even tasted the frosting yet?
Regret happens when you have waited until it is too late to start living your life. No one can change the past. It is long gone. And you have to live with the consequences of your action in the Present. Until you change and do something different to break the cycle, chances are your future will also be the same, if not worse. No one would like to wait until the end and then find out that we should done things differently. If we have always been the loser, then start creating the causes to be a winner. Learn new skills, un-load all the bad habits and change ourselves. In Buddhism, we say that Liberation lies in the palm of your hands. Only you can save yourself. Only you can change yourself. So, don’t wait anymore. Time’s ticking away so very fast – now, that is scary.
Starting being your best so that you can start enjoying the best years of your life NOW.
Nobody is a looser, nobody is a failure. Why? Because we can all win.
Nobody is “programmed” to fail, to be miserable and helpless, like there would be this permament “hard-wired” failure being that I am. This is not logical, nothing is permament, even our failed attempts, they will pass and we will succeed eventually.
With this in view we can operate a shift on how we react and how we use our failures, two options:
1. We see our failures as an end in itself and get stuck in them,
2. We see our failures as steps to success and move on.
When, as a child, we learn to ride a bycicle we fail many times, yet we get back on the bike always and try again until we can master the control of the bycicle.
Why don’t we do the same when we “fall” on our spiritual path?
Perhaps we should look at it from the bycicle story, why do we get back on the bike after we have fallen and even hurt ourselves in that fall? What makes us go back on the bycicle, knowing that we will fall again many times before we can master the bike? Why? Because we have faith that we can master the bike. We have faith in that.
So we should ask ourselves: do we have faith in our potentiality for becoming enlightened? If we don’t then we do not have faith in our guru neither, how could we? If we have faith in our guru that can see this buddhahood potential in us, we would be able to trust him.
On the path to enlightenement, Buddha taught the third Noble Truth before the fourth for a basic simple reason, we should recognize our potentiality for buddhahood before we even hear of the path taking us there.
Same: we must have faith that we can bike before we learn to bike, then only do we find the strength to push ourselves.
“If you want something you never had, then do something you never did”
I totally agree with all that Rinpoche writes in his blog. Its never too late to try anything that we wish to do while we still have the capabilities. Whether we are old or disabled or people who are immobilised can still find things to do according to the functions of their limbs ansd brains. You must put your heart and soul to what you want to do and say I will achieve it. You may be surprise the task you are doing is not bad or hard after all when you are happy and enjoy doing tne work. And most important you must think positive and say in your mind you can do it. A positive mind is the tool for success. I believe nothing you want to do can be failure unless you are lazy. If you fall or fail one time try again and find ways by putting effort. Why waste the time you have with sitting around and doing nothing. Do soimething which will benefit you and others. Time and tide waits for no man. Once opportunities lost are lost for ever. My few experiences with successes that I had was thru Rinpoche’s guidance
that I will be able to make it turn out to be success and not failures. And I dont regret it.
TIME AND TIDE WAITS FOR NO MAN. Is it true? Yes I believe its true. What is most important that we should do for our spiritual life first so that we don’t regret when we die.If we are a Buddhist practioner we should think about creating lots of good merits for our salvation from the lower realms. In mundane life it would be nice not to be lazy and do whatever you can and not waste your time that you will regret later and think you should have done it. Many people will say I will leave this and this to do another day. Maybe that day will not come and you loose the opportunity which leads to regret. Even if its a failure you will know where you stand and rectify or solve it and there is no regret.
Yes, failure is the mother of success as the saying goes! Without failure we won’t know what success is all about. But don’t get despondent by failures as no one is born to fail always, and nobody is born always a loser too. Basing on the logic of impermanance, nothing stays permanent. Failure is not an end in itself. We must move on, and try and try again with greater determination and faith. Faith has been proven to move mountains, but to win again we must move fast. We must not sit around and cover ourselves with self pity, and moan, yet do nothing about our failures, but to put more greater efforts to change our failure to success. Time passes fast and it waits for no one! As our guru said,”It is glorious to fail, to be laughed at, to be joked about, but when we finally make it, it will be a sweet success”. By so doing, we will serve as an inspiration to many others.
This blog post really did hit me once more. I admit I’ve given up on many things/projects many times. But from now on, I will do my very best in living my life meaningfully by helping others.
very inspiring message la….it is really touching and inspiring ..we actually learn by trying..with trial and error..we build the game successfully…..it is true….la..your messages are really worth practicing..your holiness
This article in Ukrainian http://mrzhukovskyi.blog.com/2011/03/15/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%96%D1%82%D1%8C-%D1%89%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8C-%D1%89%D0%BE%D0%B1-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%96%D0%BC-%D0%BD%D0%B5-%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8/
This is very inspiring, thank you.
Only one part I’m not sure, I don’t really understand how this works, “they are really laughing about themselves subconsciously without even realizing”?
Very insightful and helpful, thank you.
“If you want something you never had, then do something you never did” that is so logical but not so easy for us to see sometimes but if it makes a alot of sense. Which is probably why we are encouraged to get out of our comfort zones and push our boundaries.