I read the archives (36 posts April-July 2022). Affirmations that I'd completely forgotten about have come true:
Wearing my "expensive" watch (it cost me US$9!)
Shaking hands with my brother and sitting at the front of the bus/"luxury limousine" (visualizing the end of the pandemic)
Bathing under my perfectly adjusted temperature shower (new hot water system, cold showers)
My new pillow
Enjoying grocery shopping with Dad (I used to be grumpy)
Getting my eye glasses fixed
Fast computer
Writing "thank you very much indeed!" (in Mum's birthday card)
Daily recollection of merits (computer journal)
Continuing to live at home with my parents
Inhaling happiness (instead of Tibetan tonglen breathing in suffering!)
"I'm enjoying tidying my desk. I'm enjoying looking at my spotless desk"
Millions of dollars of real estate beside the path to the supermarket (booming market)
Dana (giving) reducing my fear of death (and fear of not controlling enough money)
Playing 1980's pop music
The world is a much better place that is portrayed on social media.
I create wealth by running shopping errands. I create wealth by washing the dishes.
"How do you keep patience going? How do you keep persistence going? By having a good sense of humor about what’s happening to you in the path and having an infinite good humor that can keep you going. This is the attitude that allows you to say, “Whoops, another mistake! – Well, try again! Another mistake? Try again!” It’s that ability to step back from yourself a bit to see what you’re doing and not to be so in to a particular state of mind or in to a particular identity that you can’t let it go." ~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Infinite Good Humor"
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