The Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules for Living
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Nectar dreams. Petal vibrations.
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The Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules for Living
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s: • Respect for self • Respect for others • Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
2 months ago
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The earth turned to bring us closer,
it spun on itself and within us,
and finally joined us together in this dream
as written in the Symposium.
Nights passed by, snowfalls and solstices;
time passed in minutes and millennia.
An ox cart that was on its way to Nineveh
arrived in Nebraska.
A rooster was singing some distance from the world,
in one of the thousand pre-lives of our fathers.
The earth was spinning with its music
carrying us on board;
it didn’t stop turning a single moment
as if so much love, so much that’s miraculous
was only an adagio written long ago
in the Symposium’s score.
- Eugenio Montejo
(translated by Peter Boyle)
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Today, I may become trapped in the labyrinth that is Ikea. But to remedy this inevitability, I’ll pull a Gretel and make a trail of free measuring tape to find my way out. If I am in fact ensnared amongst the “DUKTIGs”and the “OSLOs” I’ll simply pull a JGL-Dechanel and play house for the rest of my life in the pre-arranged living areas. And eat Swedish meatballs and soft-served ice cream for balanced sustenance (as was planned regardless of entrapment). So, wish me luck on this grand trek and hope I emerge unscathed.
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And here I go, diving in with my pride supporting me. Taking a leap of faith. Thus commences the Los Angeles Chronicles of my young life. The plunge is deep, the journey inevitable.
Source: legrandcirqueA diving horse and its trainer diving towards a tank full of water. Photograph by Peter Stackpole. Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, July 1953.
