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]]> By: Graham Phoenix http://www.businessbackpacker.com/overcoming-suffering-and-achieving-lasting-happiness%e2%80%a6-words-from-the-dalai-lama/#comment-209 Graham Phoenix Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:15:42 +0000 http://www.businessbackpacker.com/?p=1021#comment-209 Hi Brooke I like to see it as people do the best the can with the resources they have available. That way you steer clear of making judgements, you just see people as they are. Thanks for the comment about the site, I have been re-adjusting the design it as you have been looking, it is now complete. At the moment I am in Brisbane, Australia. We are here in Aus until March, then it's back to Europe, or that's the general plan which is always 'subject to change'. Graham Hi Brooke

I like to see it as people do the best the can with the resources they have available. That way you steer clear of making judgements, you just see people as they are.

Thanks for the comment about the site, I have been re-adjusting the design it as you have been looking, it is now complete.

At the moment I am in Brisbane, Australia. We are here in Aus until March, then it’s back to Europe, or that’s the general plan which is always ‘subject to change’.

Graham

]]> By: Brooke Ferguson http://www.businessbackpacker.com/overcoming-suffering-and-achieving-lasting-happiness%e2%80%a6-words-from-the-dalai-lama/#comment-208 Brooke Ferguson Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:14:17 +0000 http://www.businessbackpacker.com/?p=1021#comment-208 @Nick - Just read your post, and looks like we are on the same page. It is fascinating how we like to personalize every event 'that happens to us'. It has been great living in Thailand where people don't seem to take these things so seriously, or have such great expectations. I think a lot of the western world is suffering because we have our sights on super-stardom and want big and impressive lives or situations. I recently saw a quote at the school I'm teaching English at and it said, "Set your sights low." I laughed, at first, because everything I've ever seen has been "Aim High!", "Think Big!", etc. It was actually refreshing to see something like that and take in the simplicity. Set your sights low and be happy. Not a bad idea! @Graham - Thanks for the comment. I really like your idea about suffering just being something that we attach meaning to. Have you read Don Miguel Ruiz's book the Four Agreements? I like his take: 1. Be Impeccable With Your Word. 2. Don't Take Anything Personally. 3. Don't Make Assumptions. 4. Always Do Your Best. He talks about not seeing anything as a persona event, but rather a situation where everyone is doing their best, but their stuff is just being played out. I think often times we see situations or events as "good" or "bad" and the labeling is what gets us all messed up. Your site is really cool and I'm checking it out now. What part of the world are you in these days? Take care, Brooke @Nick – Just read your post, and looks like we are on the same page. It is fascinating how we like to personalize every event ‘that happens to us’. It has been great living in Thailand where people don’t seem to take these things so seriously, or have such great expectations. I think a lot of the western world is suffering because we have our sights on super-stardom and want big and impressive lives or situations.

I recently saw a quote at the school I’m teaching English at and it said, “Set your sights low.” I laughed, at first, because everything I’ve ever seen has been “Aim High!”, “Think Big!”, etc. It was actually refreshing to see something like that and take in the simplicity. Set your sights low and be happy. Not a bad idea!

@Graham – Thanks for the comment. I really like your idea about suffering just being something that we attach meaning to. Have you read Don Miguel Ruiz’s book the Four Agreements? I like his take:

1. Be Impeccable With Your Word.
2. Don’t Take Anything Personally.
3. Don’t Make Assumptions.
4. Always Do Your Best.

He talks about not seeing anything as a persona event, but rather a situation where everyone is doing their best, but their stuff is just being played out. I think often times we see situations or events as “good” or “bad” and the labeling is what gets us all messed up.

Your site is really cool and I’m checking it out now. What part of the world are you in these days?

Take care,
Brooke

]]> By: Graham Phoenix http://www.businessbackpacker.com/overcoming-suffering-and-achieving-lasting-happiness%e2%80%a6-words-from-the-dalai-lama/#comment-207 Graham Phoenix Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:38:16 +0000 http://www.businessbackpacker.com/?p=1021#comment-207 I have learnt a great technique with regard to suffering, of any kind. Use the mantra, 'Suffering is not in the fact, but in our perception of the fact'. It is always what we make of something that creates the suffering. Every event is empty of meaning until we give it one. If you sit with the mantra the suffering goes away and you can create your own inspiring meaning. I created happiness by giving up my house and going on the road permanently. My partner and I live together on the road. We call ourselves Earth Pilgrims after the saying coined by Satish Kumar. We work and earn our living on the road and, most of all, we enjoy ourselves. We do a lot of house-sitting which is great for reducing expenses and getting to know an area. In this digital world you can live and work without a home. We work via the internet and go to all the places we love in this world. For us it is real happiness, no home to look after, no 'stuff' to clog up our lives. I have learnt a great technique with regard to suffering, of any kind. Use the mantra, ‘Suffering is not in the fact, but in our perception of the fact’. It is always what we make of something that creates the suffering. Every event is empty of meaning until we give it one. If you sit with the mantra the suffering goes away and you can create your own inspiring meaning.

I created happiness by giving up my house and going on the road permanently. My partner and I live together on the road. We call ourselves Earth Pilgrims after the saying coined by Satish Kumar. We work and earn our living on the road and, most of all, we enjoy ourselves. We do a lot of house-sitting which is great for reducing expenses and getting to know an area.

In this digital world you can live and work without a home. We work via the internet and go to all the places we love in this world. For us it is real happiness, no home to look after, no ‘stuff’ to clog up our lives.

]]> By: Nick1254367 http://www.businessbackpacker.com/overcoming-suffering-and-achieving-lasting-happiness%e2%80%a6-words-from-the-dalai-lama/#comment-206 Nick1254367 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:55:33 +0000 http://www.businessbackpacker.com/?p=1021#comment-206 Hi, Great article! I completely agree, I think what Dalai Lama is talking about expectations playing a key role regarding how happy we are. I recently thought about this too. I invite you to have a look at <a href="http://www.spreadinghappiness.org/2009/09/the-role- and-importance-of-“expectations”-in-being-happy/">Role and importance of “expectations” in being happy</a> and tell me what you think! Thanks, Nick Hi,
Great article! I completely agree, I think what Dalai Lama is talking about expectations playing a key role

regarding how happy we are. I recently thought about this too. I

invite you to have a look at Role and

importance of “expectations” in being happy and tell me

what you think!
Thanks, Nick

]]> By: Brooke Ferguson http://www.businessbackpacker.com/overcoming-suffering-and-achieving-lasting-happiness%e2%80%a6-words-from-the-dalai-lama/#comment-205 Brooke Ferguson Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:21:04 +0000 http://www.businessbackpacker.com/?p=1021#comment-205 @Alysia - Thanks so much for commenting! It was great to have a chance to hang out and I look forward to seeing you this weekend! I agree with the idea of being able to live in Thailand and get back to the simpler and more meaningful parts of life. It's a great realization to discover that we are in charge of that and it can happen as often as we like!! See you soon! @Alysia – Thanks so much for commenting! It was great to have a chance to hang out and I look forward to seeing you this weekend! I agree with the idea of being able to live in Thailand and get back to the simpler and more meaningful parts of life. It’s a great realization to discover that we are in charge of that and it can happen as often as we like!! See you soon!

]]> By: Alysia http://www.businessbackpacker.com/overcoming-suffering-and-achieving-lasting-happiness%e2%80%a6-words-from-the-dalai-lama/#comment-204 Alysia Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:15:28 +0000 http://www.businessbackpacker.com/?p=1021#comment-204 Beautiful, my dear! I love this. I feel like I've wasted so many potentially fabulous moments of my life waiting for happiness to arrive through some outside source. I'm slowly teaching myself to just be the happiness I've looked for for so long...and it's the best time I've ever had. Though I know living in Thailand and enjoying this incredible life in paradise has jump started my newish unwavering love of happiness, I'm still realizing that it really does all come from inside me. It's an every day choice to just smile and take pleasure in the ordinary as well as the extraordinary :) Thanks for the tips and reminders, this was so refreshing to read! Beautiful, my dear! I love this. I feel like I’ve wasted so many potentially fabulous moments of my life waiting for happiness to arrive through some outside source. I’m slowly teaching myself to just be the happiness I’ve looked for for so long…and it’s the best time I’ve ever had. Though I know living in Thailand and enjoying this incredible life in paradise has jump started my newish unwavering love of happiness, I’m still realizing that it really does all come from inside me. It’s an every day choice to just smile and take pleasure in the ordinary as well as the extraordinary :) Thanks for the tips and reminders, this was so refreshing to read!

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