AN ATTITUDE OF GREAT GRATITUDE
Dear Friends
Welcome to our New Year 2022.
What makes a year New, Fresh and Alive, may be more about our Approach or Attitude to it than what actually happens within it.
We may face and engage many things this year that we have done countless times in previous years; yet if we see, view and approach them with a helpful attitude they can feel and be a new experience for us.
The Buddhist Path Factor of ‘Right View’; the first of the Eight Practices on the Buddhist Path; is particularly about seeing and appreciating – where Stress and Suffering occur for us; why Stress and Suffering occur for us; how Stress and Suffering can be caused not to occur and the way of practice to bring about the end of Stress and Suffering.
However a general wholesome ‘Right View’ approach to our Life can include the quality or Attitude of Gratitude. Indeed how we perceive our experience will determine our reality!
Here our thinking – Conceiving, affects our Perceiving, that then affects our Receiving of experience.
Concept- Percept – Recept!.
Certainly as we begin this year 2022, lets approach this year in every month, week, day, hour, minute and moment with the wonderful conception, perception and reception of Gratitude.
There is never not something to be Grateful for – with a Great Fullness of Heart.
My verse below expresses this appreciation of the quality and experience of Gratitude.
Wishing you all a Wonderful Year 2022
With Metta- Kind Regards
John B.
AN ATTITUDE OF GREAT GRATITUDE
Buddhist ‘Right View’ is an Approach;
Perspective or Mindful Attitude;
Which can include the appreciation;
And expression of Great Gratitude.
This helps the mind to approach Life;
With a wide Psychological Latitude;
That helps us deal with all
The varieties of Life’s Vicissitudes.
This enables a Perfect-Presence;
And relational engagement with much Magnitude;
Being and emotional expression of
Appreciative-Joy with great Amplitude.
This raises and uplifts the Mind;
To a Psycho-Spiritual Altitude;
Beyond mental distraction, distortion;
Laziness, lethargy and Lassitude.
To see and view Life in such a way that we express;
The quality, approach and attitude of Gratitude;
Empowers our Mind-Heart with a wonderful;
Rectitude and Fortitude.
