011-Buddhism in daily life - Life Balance

TODAY IS THE DAY FOR A LIFE BALANCE!

A balance sheet (Latin for balance) is a structured comparison of values. A life balance is the examination of positive and negative past events.

This also includes listing the equivalent value of the various actions, i.e. asking: "what has it brought me"? This quickly leads to a valuation of the events of the past.

Retreat to a quiet atmosphere and take a sheet of paper and a pen. Draw a line in the middle of the sheet, write "positive" on the left, then "negative" on the right.

Now enter the most important incidents of your life on the sheet, each in the correct column, it was as it was, it is as it is, don't gloss over anything.

All your troubles, missteps, your worries and hardships, your successes, your joys, the things you are proud of, the events you are ashamed of, write everything down, in keywords, openly and honestly to "yourself", do not lie to yourself.

The main goal of this exercise is reconciliation with your own "I", drawing a line at the end of the page. Buddhists are not supposed to judge, not to create categories, not to distinguish "good" and "bad", but here it is not about the judgement itself, but about the consequences of such a judgement.

Become aware of yourself, your person and personality, see your strengths and weaknesses, and make peace with the life that is on this page.

As Buddhists we know, the "karma" is already fixed for us, everything comes as it must come. We can not escape our destiny, even to fight against it brings nothing, but to complain even less. Make peace with your "I".

Because to find an agreement with your own "self", to create balance, reconciliation and peace within yourself, that is a very worthwhile goal.

Everything that happened was good, important in your life. You have become the person you are today precisely with and because of these events.

Another purpose of this life review is to reflect on sorrows and soges. And in retroperspective, did these negative emotions do anything, could you achieve anything with these feelings?

I don't think so!

When you are done with your life balance, then you should burn the sheet, close with the past.

Make peace with your self!

It was as it was, it is as it is!

The "karma" was their "karma"!

Everything we do has a consequence. But the wise and right does not always produce something favorable, and the wrong does not always produce something unfavorable

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - German poet - 1749 to 1832

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