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[Amelia]

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...I can't speak for the whole planets karma but I can speak for my own. Past lives before this "physical" one? I must have been quite a dreadful person to let it come to this...

Would you say that a rich, greedy and ignorant man has better karma, though he may have all that he wants?

[Jiki22]

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we learn most from bad things (ours or others), pain, sickness and more
but you don't have to do it alone ( example : this forum or like me at the dojo)

[Ryumon]

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Sometimes you can't fix everything. Sometimes you just have to deal with all the shit. Acceptance can be difficult, but sometimes it's the only way out.

"As if it matters how a man falls down."

"When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal."

[Koshin]

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I want to fix everything that can be fixed

I am a begginer in Buddhism and Zen too, as far as I can understand in my state of current ignorance, I think this part is the most difficult. Let go of everything and at the same time learn to distinguish between what can be fixed and what can not be fixed....and then go and simply fix it, with no attachment to things, but with simple joy... even if it means hard work, or pain, or sickness

I don't know if I understand this right or wrong, Greg, but believe me that all we here are trying to find and follow this path, no one can walk our own path, maybe, in the end, there is no path,only Practice, Acceptance .... I don't know....I wish I could help you, but maybe I am as lost as anyone....in this state of things, I decide to trust the words of our teachers and our peers in the Sangha. Perhaps what they share with us will help us to understand, every day, a little more.

[Marek]

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Hi Greg,

From yours words it is obvious that you have experienced a lot of difficulties in your life.

But as Jiki said:

we learn most from bad things (ours or others), pain, sickness and more
but you don't have to do it alone

So true! You don' t have to do it alone.

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[gilles]

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gassho
gilles

[Dojin]

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You got it....
Gassho, Dojin.

[Kyonin]

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From my limited experience in life, all I can say is that the more resistance you put towards crap in life, you end up suffering badly.

When you just surf the waves of life with no opposition to anything, things start to look up quite a bit.

Thank you for open up to the sangha. Much metta to you.

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...I can't speak for the whole planets karma but I can speak for my own. Past lives before this "physical" one? I must have been quite a dreadful person to let it come to this...

Would you say that a rich, greedy and ignorant man has better karma, though he may have all that he wants?

no I would not.

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we learn most from bad things (ours or others), pain, sickness and more
but you don't have to do it alone ( example : this forum or like me at the dojo)

I'm not alone, I know this now, a friend gave me some information on how to get free food, I'll take it.

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