Cypress (03-28-2023), Doc Dutch (03-28-2023), Guno צְבִי (03-28-2023)
From the book “The Four Agreements”, the First Agreement:
“Be impeccable with your word.”
Mostly, people use the power of their word to spread their own personal poison.
Anger
Hate
Jealousy
Envy
Fear
Guilt
Resentment
We use it against ourselves. To create division and distrust, fear and resentment, to seek revenge, to fix blame.
That’s what this forum does. From start to finish. It’s toxic through and through.
The question that then poses is why does one wish to be that way?
Cypress (03-28-2023), Doc Dutch (03-28-2023), Guno צְבִי (03-28-2023)
We have the power to make ourselves impervious to resentment, jealously, hate, anger. Some try to exercise the power.
I hadn't heard of this book, but it sounds like the author just packaged up some tenets and maxims from Stoicism, Buddhism, Christianity, Daoism and just gave it a new nomenclature.
evince (03-29-2023)
anonymoose (03-28-2023)
anonymoose (03-28-2023), evince (03-29-2023)
anonymoose (03-28-2023), evince (03-29-2023)
domer76 (03-28-2023)
evince (03-29-2023), The Sage of Main Street (03-29-2023)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Sounds about right.
I got the same basic set of ethical maxims and aphorisms from reading The Analects, the Dhammapada, the New Testament, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. But as a business model and marketing gimmick, it is a clever idea to compile those precepts and sell it under the rubric of 'ancient Toltec wisdom'.
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