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November 26th, 2008 by eyal | Filed under Day Trading, Living, Personal development. |
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The mind is the root of all our experience, both of ourselves and of others. If we perceive the world in an unclear way, confusion and suffering will arise. It is like someone with defective vision seeing the world as being upside down, or a fearful person finding everything frightening. We may be largely unaware of our ignorance and wrong views, yet at present the mind can be compared to a wild tiger, rampaging through our daily lives. Motivated by desire, hatred and bewilderment this untamed mind blindly pursues what it wants and lashes out at all that stands in its way, with little or no understanding of the way things really are.
Akong Tulku Rinpoche – Taming The Tiger, Tibetan teachings for improving daily life.
There are many great lessons on life in this book, and of course lots of parallels to trading psychology and the mental strength.
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Sounds like an interesting book.
A couple of contemporary Tibetan masters who has written pretty good english books are Sakyong Mipham, Dzigar Kongtrul and of course, Dilgo Khyentse’s translated works.
All the best for your upcoming wedding.
Thanks for the recommendations Don. I’ll check them out. Do you practice any meditation?
Heh, I like to play tennis, both with hitting partners as well as whacking hairy yellow balls against a wall.
Does that count? ;)
If you’re able to stop the internal chatter than doing the dishes also counts :-)
Sadly, my moments of playing-in-the-now is just that – too few fleeting moments…
Ahh yes, the time-honoured tradition of the meditation practice of dish-washing :)
But you are right, life itself is a practice in mindfulness.
Calls to mind the Vietnamnese master Thich Nhat Hanh’s oft-repeated sayings on everyday actions, like washing dishes and drinking tea.
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently,
as if it is the axis
on which the world earth revolves
- slowly, evenly, without
rushing toward the future;
Live the actual moment.
Only this moment is life.”
And here’s Thich on washing dishes.
(Read somewhere that Thich and an assistant had washed dishes at retreats for a hundred people using only ashes, rice and coconut husks.
Ouch.)