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Little lists like this are usually harmless but this one is just crazy stupid.
1. I do always want to be right. It's a lifelong project. Why give that up?
2. Control can be overdone, but it's totally necessary, laudable at times.
3. Blame is useful. Take it, give it, it's karma in action.
4. This is a good one to give up if I understand it right. Not well worded though.
5. Limiting beliefs, don't really know what is meant by that.
6. Complaining can be pretty useful. Is complaining different from protesting? I do try to give up complaining about trivial matters.
7. The luxury of criticism. As you can tell I really like criticism. It would be such luxury to spend a weekend reading GBShaw's music criticism. Nope, not giving it up.
8. Need to impress others. Here again, it can be overdone but I don't think we can really get along without it. btw, I hope you're impressed by this little list crit.
9. Change is something to be carefully considered, and a healthy resistance to it is definitely in the mix.
10. There is a kind of labeling that we should give up. I suppose what is meant here is prejudice. ok.
11. Fears are pretty healthy. ratchet them back a bit if you want, but you can't operate without them.
12. Excuses? I know I will be excusing myself for something in the next 24 hours. To not do so would be considered pretty aloof and unfeeling, antisocial. Is this Ayn Rand's list?
13. I love the past. The past is beautiful. How could anyone give up their past?
14. Attachment. Sorry, this is meaningless.
15. Living your life up to other's expectations is called living in a society. Get used to it or be very unhappy.
Wow! After that critique Ed, I'm going to give up on lists.
Ed, we could definitely get into a nuanced discussion of this, but for the hell of it I will pick one.
"give up your need to always be right"
I interpret this as the type of trait where someone is so unwilling to compromise or even listen to somebody else because their own ego is so large and so insistent on being correct and right. The personal need to want to be right as in do the right thing or take the right action is a different trait in my opinion altogether.
The list is about the neurotic edge of these things not anything else. In my opinion. The list speaks to me. I posted it with the intention of it helping people to relax a bit. So your response is interesting.
Thanks Glenn. Pretty easy to explode the little sayings. Maybe four or five word sayings tend to be extreme while good sense is moderate and complex.
"give up your need to always be right"
I think you're exactly right, Jim. There's the person who won't give in to logic, and that's what the saying is about, but... Who doesn't want to always be right? I sure do. : )
On that basis, you could take the saying as an insult since it assumes the happiness seeker has such an ego, such a need. It's like saying, "to be happy, stop being an asshole."
Ed, in Buddhism there is a tradition of sayings called slogans. The slogans are short and require study and instruction on how to amplify them and understand their meaning. The idea of the slogan is that you contemplate it for a period and attempt to understand its meaning, incorporate the understanding into your own midstream. Particularly I am referring to what is called the Lojong which is part of the practices of the Mahayana.
oops meant to write mindstream not midstream...
I read up on LoJong a bit. very cool.
Go Ed. It's one of my favorite teachings because it's always relevant and direct.
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