Right Action – Wise Action
“Right action is based on right intention.”
Speech is based on intention.
Action is based on intention.
Intention is based on self-view.
If the right intention arises, based on right view, then right action will follow. All are kamma-making because all result from intention.
All of it is kamma-making – good, bad or neutral – and not just for the next life, it is mainly for right now.
Kamma and its results are constantly happening every moment. Unless one pays full attention to the results, one doesn’t know that they are directly related to what one has said, thought and done.
To suppress hate and greed isn’t possible. They require letting go, which is something we need to practise in meditation.
Unless we practice letting go of our difficult emotions in meditation, there will be little benefit to our meditations.
There will be thinking, hoping, wishing, worrying, fearing, remembering. Unless we learn to let go of these mind states, we won’t meditate.
Meditation is releasing, letting go all that roams around the mind.
Trying to reaffirm ego or gratifying cravings. Suppression doesn’t work.
Watching our emotions non-judgmentally and mindfully one becomes aware of one’s intentions and views.
When we can be with all of our emotions in a kind way only then does the emotional healing happen.
Source- Being Nobody, Going Nowhere – by Ayya Khema
Adapted by G Ross Clark
A SUGGESTED PRACTICE
‘Letting go of anger’
- Ground, in the posture of the body
- Open, the body heart and mind
- Invite, an angry issue to arise
- ‘There is anger’ (objectively, noting on 3 or more in-breaths)
- ‘This is my anger’ (subjectively, taking full responsibility our anger)
- ‘May my anger be well’ (caring, healing the anger with kindness:-)
G Ross Clark
TheMindfulCoach.com