Humble Confidence
If there is no self, who is there to be humble? My friend, you are putting too much pride in this security net of yours.
Besides, by using 'humble' in the sense that one is meek or modest in one's abilities, the Buddha would be agreeing with me. I agree completely that one should be on the careful side in their confidence of abilities. They should never exceed their position, and as I attempted to explain with the meassured trust account, the importance of the situation should determine how much lower a level of ability thier trust should be placed. However, one should not arbitrarily set their confidence far below their skill level. If so, they will never test the full potential of their skill and, likewise, never advance their skill through practice. To be meek in the position one takes towards their abilities may cause the individual to hesitate or fail to act in a situation in which they had to power to do good for others. As such, I believe the Buddha would agree that one should be humble in that they attempt to retain a level of confidence as close as possible to their abilities without ever exceeding them. Further, that confidence should only be utilized as it relates to the performance of those abilities; a buddhist does not boast, unless boasting simply to demostrate a point. Consider the example below;
As the Buddha was in audience he rebuked one of his disciples. Another of his disciples later questioned whether a true Buddha would have embarrassed a student in front of so many individuals. The Buddha replied that a true Buddha may eat meat, have sexual intercourse, steal another's food, or even kill a man if he is showing the Way.
Moral of the story; I'm an amazing lay.
Besides, by using 'humble' in the sense that one is meek or modest in one's abilities, the Buddha would be agreeing with me. I agree completely that one should be on the careful side in their confidence of abilities. They should never exceed their position, and as I attempted to explain with the meassured trust account, the importance of the situation should determine how much lower a level of ability thier trust should be placed. However, one should not arbitrarily set their confidence far below their skill level. If so, they will never test the full potential of their skill and, likewise, never advance their skill through practice. To be meek in the position one takes towards their abilities may cause the individual to hesitate or fail to act in a situation in which they had to power to do good for others. As such, I believe the Buddha would agree that one should be humble in that they attempt to retain a level of confidence as close as possible to their abilities without ever exceeding them. Further, that confidence should only be utilized as it relates to the performance of those abilities; a buddhist does not boast, unless boasting simply to demostrate a point. Consider the example below;
As the Buddha was in audience he rebuked one of his disciples. Another of his disciples later questioned whether a true Buddha would have embarrassed a student in front of so many individuals. The Buddha replied that a true Buddha may eat meat, have sexual intercourse, steal another's food, or even kill a man if he is showing the Way.
Moral of the story; I'm an amazing lay.
Post Scripts...
posted by J.B.P. at 5:54 PM
1 Comments:
I'll give you that one ... but girls should be warned to shut you up while you're searching for their non-existent G-spot ...
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