Current Events > Do yoy want to be a better person?

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I hope everyone would answer yes, although "better" is highly subjective. Lets assume better in this case means more at ease with fellow humans, and understanding how universal suffering is among us all. Lets say that suffering is the root cause of all of these manifestations of unpleasantness. How should a society work to correct this? I argue it can only be done through self examination, be the change. Don't expect a court, or group, to make things better. Take the reigns and better yourself, then maybe, big maybe, you may be in a position to help someone else so the same. The answer is not violence, destruction, and counter oppression. How is this not obvious to more people? Are we so brainwashed? Anyone curious how we may actually do this as individuals?

You can't get better if you're already perfect. I make no mistaks.

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-Kush- posted...

You can't get better if you're already perfect. I make no mistaks.

You wouldn't be here if you didn't have something to learn, but I gathered you find yourself amusing.

How dare you flame me. I won't mark you, but someone else might. I have rights!

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Kinda tired of people taking advantage of my good nature.

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I strive everyday to be a better person.

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So much yes.

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eh

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ehhwhatever posted...

Kinda tired of people taking advantage of my good nature.

So, you feel your expectations of others to be as good as you feel you are is not being met. This leads to your suffering in the first place. If you just expected other people to be irrational, self serving and "bad natured" you'd no longer suffer in that way. In truth those people aren't doing a thing to you to make you feel taken advantage of. Its just you feeling you are owed something. You are not.

Alteres posted...

eh

Fair enough, but then you should never expect any change in your outlook or the world. Most of us have a sort of codependent relationship with our perceived miseries

Thatuser posted...

Fair enough, but then you should never expect any change in your outlook or the world. Most of us have a sort of codependent relationship with our perceived miseries

In point of fact I disagree in my particular case.

I am constantly reevaluating my viewpoints to find the most efficient and consistent paradigms.

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Alteres posted...

In point of fact I disagree in my particular case.

I am constantly reevaluating my viewpoints to find the most efficient and consistent paradigms.

Than that is good, and frankly redundant to mention. Change is the only constant. If you are directing that change in a way which promotes higher levels of awareness and perception, then you're doing it right :) I'm just pointing out we all need to do this on a personal level. Its very, very difficult to do, in truth, as opposed to just saying the thing, because it forces us to confront the lies we've always been told and continue to hold on to. Those are tough patterns to break.