A THOUGHT OF THE DAY TO YOUR LIFE FROM BUDDHISM (SOURCE METTA SITE)

Simply watch yourself. Be aware. Notice how you react with others. Try to bring clarity of attention to all your interactions, and try to perceive which of your buttons is being pushed. Notice the habitual, reflexive, and often unconscious reactions arising. Name them, and let them go. See if by so doing, you can create a more spacious and open approach to your relationships with others. See if you can become more skillful, intelligent, and even-handed. Doing this doesn't mean that you will never again get angry or resentful; it does mean that you can channel emotions like anger and resentment more effectively.

1. NOTICE WHAT YOU ARE FEELING

Don't deny or bury what you are feeling. Simply notice each feeling that arises and call it by its name — anger, pride, jealousy, covetousness, lustful desire, irritation, or annoyance for example.

2. RATHER THAN REJECTING IT, EMBRACE IT WITH AWARENESS

Recognize the feeling for what it is - simply a feeling that is arising. Don't get angry at yourself or the feeling, but don't let it take over and carry you away.

3. USE DISCRIMINATING AWARENESS TO REFLECT ON WHAT YOU ARE FEELING

  Analyze and examine the feeling. Are you having a knee-jerk reaction? Is your feeling justified? (Perhaps it is a reasonable response.)

4. BEHAVE IN AN INTENTIONAL AND WISE MANNER

Make a wise decision about how to react to what you are feeling at the moment. Remember that no matter how strong your feeling is, nothing remains the same. The feeling will change, and another will take its place. With that in mind, take the long view; use spiritual intelligence and an understanding of kamma to make an appropriate choice about how to act.

When we handle our feelings mindfully in this way, we become more emotionally stable, trustworthy, and reliable. Through the power of insight, our responses become more balanced and more in line with what is really happening.

Four Airmen Were Killed Due To A Plane Crash In Colombo

Four airmen were killed and one was hospitalized with life threatening injuries when  Antanov Air Craft they were traveling  was crashed in to the Colombo suburbs early this morning.

The air craft belongs to the Sri Lanka Air Force which was flying from Katunayake to Ratmalana was crashed in Aturugiriya area believed to be due to the low sight and mist prevails in the area at that time sources said.

The firemen rushed to the scene to douse the fire which caused due to the crash.

Dengue Is Spreading Rapidly -Epidemeology Unit

Due to the rainy weather Dengue is spreading rapidly throughout  the Island these days

according to the Epidemiology Unit.During first ten days of this month 671 Dengue cases have been reported from the island the Unit has said.In the month of November  5322 Dengue Cases have been reported.

With these cases 42,621 Dengue Cases have been reported from January this year up to now it has been revealed.

Around 55% out of the total number of Dengue Cases reported up to now are from the Western Province.

The Epidemiologist have appeal to the public to destroy the objects which can help to breed Dengue Mosquito Larvae in their houses and gardens to avoid spreading of Dengue.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY TO YOUR LIFE FROM BUDDHISM(SOURCE-WILDMIND BUDDHIST MEDITATION SITE)

Loving yourself has a bad press in the West. We often associate it with being self-centered and not caring about others.In fact, we have a tendency to want to put ourselves down to avoid being thought of as self-centered.

But in the Buddhist tradition, which has produced countless outstandingly generous and selfless individuals, there is an emphasis on developing love for yourself as an indispensable prerequisite for loving others.

In the Christian tradition we can also bear in mind that the injunction is to “love others as yourself,” implying that we ought to love not just others but ourselves as well. In fact the assumption in saying that we should love others as ourselves is that we already do love ourselves and that we need to extend that love to others! It’s ironic that it’s often people with Christian conditioning that think that loving yourself is sinful.

Buddhists believe that if you don’t love yourself, then it’s hard, if not impossible, for you to love other people. And if you think about it you might find you already suspect that some of the most selfish people you know really, deep down, don’t like themselves. Their selfishness is a compensatory mechanism. On the other hand, many warm and generous and loving people are able to be at ease with themselves without appearing at all narcissistic or selfish.

If there are aspects of yourself that you don’t like, the tendency will be to dislike those same things in others. In fact psychologists talk about “projection” where we dislike some part of our personality so much that we actually refuse to admit it exists (if you think only other people do this then you’re projecting right now!). But we still see the same characteristic in others, and so we “project” our unacknowledged “dark side” onto them. So a lot of our ill-will towards others is actually a dislike of ourselves. It stands to reason that if we want to improve our relationship with other people, we have to also improve our relationship with ourselves.

Of course, if our metta started and ended with ourselves then it wouldn’t really be metta — it would be selfishness. So although the first stage of the practice begins with ourselves it moves on to others in the remaining four stages.

It’s important to make sure you do the first stage (don’t skip it — if it’s hard then that means you need to do it). The cosmos will not award you extra “brownie points” for leaving yourself out. But also make sure you do the other stages as well.

General Secretary Of The Main Opposition UNP Has Resigned And Joined With Government

The General Secretary of the main opposition United National Party(UNP)Tissa Attanayake has resigned from his post   and all the positions he holds in the party and crossed over to the government this noon.

The former UNP Secretary is tipped to be appointed as the new Health Minister according to the government sources.The health minister's portfolio is vacant since the former health minister and general secretary of the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party(SLFP) Maithripala Sirisena who is now the common presidential candidate of the opposition has resigned from the government few weeks ago.

A THOUGHT OF THE DAY TO YOUR LIFE FROM BUDDHISM (SOURCE-BUDDHIST WISDOM VERSES SITE)

 In 'Paṭhamamittasuttaṁ "the Lord Buddha explains the seven things by which one can recognize a true friend. 

"Duddadaṁ dadāti mittaṁ, dukkaraṁ vāpi kubbati",
 Atho pissa duruttāni, khamati dukkhamāni pi. 

 A friend gives what's hard to give,
 And does what's surely hard to do,
 And when there are bad, blaming words,
 That are hard to bear, he bears them.

" Guyhañ-ca tassa akkhāti, guyhassa parigūhati",
  Āpadāsu na jahati, khīṇena nātimaññati. 

His secret he will tell to you,
But your secret he surely hides,
He supports you in misfortune,
He does not despise you when ruined.

Yasmiṁ etāni ṭhānāni saṁvijjantīdha puggale"
So mitto mittakāmehi, bhajitabbo tathāvidho.

In that person these things are found:
He is a true and lovely friend,
With him one can keep company.

In Sigālasuttaṁ Lord Buddha explains ,

That friend who is truly helpful,
The friend for you in weal and woe,
That friend who knows what's for your good,
The friend who is compassionate:
The Wise will know these four are friends,
Attend on them like child on breast.

 

Price Of The Domestic 12.5 KG LPG Gas Cylinder To Be Reduced

Government has decided to reduce the 12.5 KG domestic LPG Gas Cylinder by Rs.250 with effect from midnight tonight the internal trade ministry has announced.According to the latest price revision the new price of the 12.5 KG Domestic Gas Cylinder will be Rs.1896.