\n
P:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"};
Q: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nThat is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nThere is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nSo that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nSo from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nSo in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nWhen I breathe in, I am connected with air. Through lights I am connected with the cosmos itself. So if you cut off that relationship it means death. So those relationships have to be in balance with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nWhen Buddha attained enlightenment, he recognized the true nature of existence as being continuous and interconnected. Not only was I connected with you, I am also connected with other life forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I breathe in, I am connected with air. Through lights I am connected with the cosmos itself. So if you cut off that relationship it means death. So those relationships have to be in balance with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nOn the other hand, there is a perspective that sees all existence in the world as a kind of continuous organism in which everything is connected. For example, there are five fingers here. If we see the fingers with a narrow scope, all five fingers are separate existence. However, if you open your eyes wider, they are different yet connected to the same hand. So the Buddhist world view that everything is connected and related to each other in such way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Buddha attained enlightenment, he recognized the true nature of existence as being continuous and interconnected. Not only was I connected with you, I am also connected with other life forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I breathe in, I am connected with air. Through lights I am connected with the cosmos itself. So if you cut off that relationship it means death. So those relationships have to be in balance with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nP: <\/strong>There are two different views on how we see the existence of this world. On the one hand, there's a world view that sees different existence as separate existence. In that world view, death of one existence has nothing to do with death or the life of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, there is a perspective that sees all existence in the world as a kind of continuous organism in which everything is connected. For example, there are five fingers here. If we see the fingers with a narrow scope, all five fingers are separate existence. However, if you open your eyes wider, they are different yet connected to the same hand. So the Buddhist world view that everything is connected and related to each other in such way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Buddha attained enlightenment, he recognized the true nature of existence as being continuous and interconnected. Not only was I connected with you, I am also connected with other life forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I breathe in, I am connected with air. Through lights I am connected with the cosmos itself. So if you cut off that relationship it means death. So those relationships have to be in balance with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
P: <\/strong>There are two different views on how we see the existence of this world. On the one hand, there's a world view that sees different existence as separate existence. In that world view, death of one existence has nothing to do with death or the life of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, there is a perspective that sees all existence in the world as a kind of continuous organism in which everything is connected. For example, there are five fingers here. If we see the fingers with a narrow scope, all five fingers are separate existence. However, if you open your eyes wider, they are different yet connected to the same hand. So the Buddhist world view that everything is connected and related to each other in such way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Buddha attained enlightenment, he recognized the true nature of existence as being continuous and interconnected. Not only was I connected with you, I am also connected with other life forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I breathe in, I am connected with air. Through lights I am connected with the cosmos itself. So if you cut off that relationship it means death. So those relationships have to be in balance with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
P: <\/strong>There are two different views on how we see the existence of this world. On the one hand, there's a world view that sees different existence as separate existence. In that world view, death of one existence has nothing to do with death or the life of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, there is a perspective that sees all existence in the world as a kind of continuous organism in which everything is connected. For example, there are five fingers here. If we see the fingers with a narrow scope, all five fingers are separate existence. However, if you open your eyes wider, they are different yet connected to the same hand. So the Buddhist world view that everything is connected and related to each other in such way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Buddha attained enlightenment, he recognized the true nature of existence as being continuous and interconnected. Not only was I connected with you, I am also connected with other life forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I breathe in, I am connected with air. Through lights I am connected with the cosmos itself. So if you cut off that relationship it means death. So those relationships have to be in balance with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nQ: I would like to hear your work in environment and how do you think that Buddhist teaching is really valuable for the issues of environment and global warming?<\/strong><\/gwmw><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
P: <\/strong>There are two different views on how we see the existence of this world. On the one hand, there's a world view that sees different existence as separate existence. In that world view, death of one existence has nothing to do with death or the life of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, there is a perspective that sees all existence in the world as a kind of continuous organism in which everything is connected. For example, there are five fingers here. If we see the fingers with a narrow scope, all five fingers are separate existence. However, if you open your eyes wider, they are different yet connected to the same hand. So the Buddhist world view that everything is connected and related to each other in such way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Buddha attained enlightenment, he recognized the true nature of existence as being continuous and interconnected. Not only was I connected with you, I am also connected with other life forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I breathe in, I am connected with air. Through lights I am connected with the cosmos itself. So if you cut off that relationship it means death. So those relationships have to be in balance with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \n
\n\n\n\nQ: I would like to hear your work in environment and how do you think that Buddhist teaching is really valuable for the issues of environment and global warming?<\/strong><\/gwmw><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
P: <\/strong>There are two different views on how we see the existence of this world. On the one hand, there's a world view that sees different existence as separate existence. In that world view, death of one existence has nothing to do with death or the life of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, there is a perspective that sees all existence in the world as a kind of continuous organism in which everything is connected. For example, there are five fingers here. If we see the fingers with a narrow scope, all five fingers are separate existence. However, if you open your eyes wider, they are different yet connected to the same hand. So the Buddhist world view that everything is connected and related to each other in such way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Buddha attained enlightenment, he recognized the true nature of existence as being continuous and interconnected. Not only was I connected with you, I am also connected with other life forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I breathe in, I am connected with air. Through lights I am connected with the cosmos itself. So if you cut off that relationship it means death. So those relationships have to be in balance with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nThe loss of a child can be indescribably painful to parents. However, if they are able to be enlightened about life through this tragic experience, they will be able to live their lives more boldly than any other person. They may realize, \u201cWhat could be more devastating than losing our child? Since we have lived through it, there won\u2019t be an adversity that we can\u2019t overcome.\u201d Whatever disasters occur in the world, they will be able to deal with them calmly even if others are devastated by them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Big Gift Her Son Left Behind","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"giving-alms-without-expectation-of-reward-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-03-02 14:46:15","post_modified_gmt":"2024-03-02 19:46:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=18122","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":14515,"post_author":"40","post_date":"2023-01-31 01:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2023-01-31 06:00:00","post_content":"\n
\n\n\n\nQ: I would like to hear your work in environment and how do you think that Buddhist teaching is really valuable for the issues of environment and global warming?<\/strong><\/gwmw><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
P: <\/strong>There are two different views on how we see the existence of this world. On the one hand, there's a world view that sees different existence as separate existence. In that world view, death of one existence has nothing to do with death or the life of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, there is a perspective that sees all existence in the world as a kind of continuous organism in which everything is connected. For example, there are five fingers here. If we see the fingers with a narrow scope, all five fingers are separate existence. However, if you open your eyes wider, they are different yet connected to the same hand. So the Buddhist world view that everything is connected and related to each other in such way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Buddha attained enlightenment, he recognized the true nature of existence as being continuous and interconnected. Not only was I connected with you, I am also connected with other life forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I breathe in, I am connected with air. Through lights I am connected with the cosmos itself. So if you cut off that relationship it means death. So those relationships have to be in balance with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nI was once tortured in the past. If I had taken it negatively, it would have become the worst trauma in my life, and I would have had deep animosity towards the people who tortured me. However, because I was able to take it as an experience, it became an opportunity for me to become enlightened. Most people are hurt by the bad experiences they have in their lives. Because they hold on to their hurt feelings, they cannot be free of suffering. It is important to accept any experiences we have had as life lessons that will enhance our lives. People who can do this will become stronger the more difficulties they experience and will become more capable of overcoming adversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The loss of a child can be indescribably painful to parents. However, if they are able to be enlightened about life through this tragic experience, they will be able to live their lives more boldly than any other person. They may realize, \u201cWhat could be more devastating than losing our child? Since we have lived through it, there won\u2019t be an adversity that we can\u2019t overcome.\u201d Whatever disasters occur in the world, they will be able to deal with them calmly even if others are devastated by them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Big Gift Her Son Left Behind","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"giving-alms-without-expectation-of-reward-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-03-02 14:46:15","post_modified_gmt":"2024-03-02 19:46:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=18122","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":14515,"post_author":"40","post_date":"2023-01-31 01:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2023-01-31 06:00:00","post_content":"\n
\n\n\n\nQ: I would like to hear your work in environment and how do you think that Buddhist teaching is really valuable for the issues of environment and global warming?<\/strong><\/gwmw><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
P: <\/strong>There are two different views on how we see the existence of this world. On the one hand, there's a world view that sees different existence as separate existence. In that world view, death of one existence has nothing to do with death or the life of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, there is a perspective that sees all existence in the world as a kind of continuous organism in which everything is connected. For example, there are five fingers here. If we see the fingers with a narrow scope, all five fingers are separate existence. However, if you open your eyes wider, they are different yet connected to the same hand. So the Buddhist world view that everything is connected and related to each other in such way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Buddha attained enlightenment, he recognized the true nature of existence as being continuous and interconnected. Not only was I connected with you, I am also connected with other life forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I breathe in, I am connected with air. Through lights I am connected with the cosmos itself. So if you cut off that relationship it means death. So those relationships have to be in balance with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nAlso, when we fail in something, that is neither good nor bad. Whether we fail in a relationship or in business, if we are traumatized by it, we will be afraid to enter into a relationship or begin a business in the future. The fear of failing again will be a handicap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was once tortured in the past. If I had taken it negatively, it would have become the worst trauma in my life, and I would have had deep animosity towards the people who tortured me. However, because I was able to take it as an experience, it became an opportunity for me to become enlightened. Most people are hurt by the bad experiences they have in their lives. Because they hold on to their hurt feelings, they cannot be free of suffering. It is important to accept any experiences we have had as life lessons that will enhance our lives. People who can do this will become stronger the more difficulties they experience and will become more capable of overcoming adversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The loss of a child can be indescribably painful to parents. However, if they are able to be enlightened about life through this tragic experience, they will be able to live their lives more boldly than any other person. They may realize, \u201cWhat could be more devastating than losing our child? Since we have lived through it, there won\u2019t be an adversity that we can\u2019t overcome.\u201d Whatever disasters occur in the world, they will be able to deal with them calmly even if others are devastated by them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Big Gift Her Son Left Behind","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"giving-alms-without-expectation-of-reward-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-03-02 14:46:15","post_modified_gmt":"2024-03-02 19:46:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=18122","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":14515,"post_author":"40","post_date":"2023-01-31 01:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2023-01-31 06:00:00","post_content":"\n
\n\n\n\nQ: I would like to hear your work in environment and how do you think that Buddhist teaching is really valuable for the issues of environment and global warming?<\/strong><\/gwmw><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
P: <\/strong>There are two different views on how we see the existence of this world. On the one hand, there's a world view that sees different existence as separate existence. In that world view, death of one existence has nothing to do with death or the life of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, there is a perspective that sees all existence in the world as a kind of continuous organism in which everything is connected. For example, there are five fingers here. If we see the fingers with a narrow scope, all five fingers are separate existence. However, if you open your eyes wider, they are different yet connected to the same hand. So the Buddhist world view that everything is connected and related to each other in such way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Buddha attained enlightenment, he recognized the true nature of existence as being continuous and interconnected. Not only was I connected with you, I am also connected with other life forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I breathe in, I am connected with air. Through lights I am connected with the cosmos itself. So if you cut off that relationship it means death. So those relationships have to be in balance with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"}; \nThings that happen to us are neither good nor bad. They just happen. If we perceive them positively, they become good things, and if we perceive them negatively, they become bad things. We are the ones who decide whether what we experience is good or bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, when we fail in something, that is neither good nor bad. Whether we fail in a relationship or in business, if we are traumatized by it, we will be afraid to enter into a relationship or begin a business in the future. The fear of failing again will be a handicap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was once tortured in the past. If I had taken it negatively, it would have become the worst trauma in my life, and I would have had deep animosity towards the people who tortured me. However, because I was able to take it as an experience, it became an opportunity for me to become enlightened. Most people are hurt by the bad experiences they have in their lives. Because they hold on to their hurt feelings, they cannot be free of suffering. It is important to accept any experiences we have had as life lessons that will enhance our lives. People who can do this will become stronger the more difficulties they experience and will become more capable of overcoming adversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The loss of a child can be indescribably painful to parents. However, if they are able to be enlightened about life through this tragic experience, they will be able to live their lives more boldly than any other person. They may realize, \u201cWhat could be more devastating than losing our child? Since we have lived through it, there won\u2019t be an adversity that we can\u2019t overcome.\u201d Whatever disasters occur in the world, they will be able to deal with them calmly even if others are devastated by them.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Big Gift Her Son Left Behind","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"giving-alms-without-expectation-of-reward-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-03-02 14:46:15","post_modified_gmt":"2024-03-02 19:46:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=18122","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":14515,"post_author":"40","post_date":"2023-01-31 01:00:00","post_date_gmt":"2023-01-31 06:00:00","post_content":"\n
\n\n\n\nQ: I would like to hear your work in environment and how do you think that Buddhist teaching is really valuable for the issues of environment and global warming?<\/strong><\/gwmw><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
P: <\/strong>There are two different views on how we see the existence of this world. On the one hand, there's a world view that sees different existence as separate existence. In that world view, death of one existence has nothing to do with death or the life of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, there is a perspective that sees all existence in the world as a kind of continuous organism in which everything is connected. For example, there are five fingers here. If we see the fingers with a narrow scope, all five fingers are separate existence. However, if you open your eyes wider, they are different yet connected to the same hand. So the Buddhist world view that everything is connected and related to each other in such way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Buddha attained enlightenment, he recognized the true nature of existence as being continuous and interconnected. Not only was I connected with you, I am also connected with other life forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I breathe in, I am connected with air. Through lights I am connected with the cosmos itself. So if you cut off that relationship it means death. So those relationships have to be in balance with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in that sense when men develop nature to your advantage, it has to be within, what can be sustained by nature, otherwise you destroy nature and ultimately yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from a very short term perspective, you may gain advantage by taking advantage of the nature, but in the long term, the damage you have done will come back to you and cause damage to you in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s why the first rule of the Buddhist is to respect living beings. Do not destroy or hurt living things. So our environmental issues can only be resolved once we get into the mind frame that everything is interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a famous saying by the Buddha. This exists because that exists. If this doesn\u2019t exist, that doesn\u2019t exist. This is formed because that is formed. If this disappears, that disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is dependant origination of our life. There is no one singular self.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you manage to focus then your breathe becomes really smooth, you can even feel the difference of the temperature of the air. Then you attain a state of really clear awareness of everything that goes around you. From this state or self-peace, can your engagement with peace activism be constructive? But if you are angry and engage in peace activism, you tend to fight in the name of peace.<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Buddhist Perspective On Environmental Crisis","post_excerpt":"Sunim gave a Dharma Q&A session at Princeton on Oct. 1, 2014","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"a-buddhist-perspective-on-environmental-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-11 11:00:08","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-11 16:00:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/?p=14515","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3694,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-29 15:01:56","post_content":"\nQ: I developed an issue of procrastination during graduate school. The problem is getting worse. If I am facing a lot of stress, for example, if I have several assignments I need to submit on a certain day, I only start doing them on the very last day before the due date. I have graduated, and I am going to start working. My work is in research, so I am very worried that I am going to continue the bad habit of procrastination in my work. Do you have any suggestions?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong>\u00a0Actually, you maintain the habit because you really don\u2019t want to get rid of it. For example, when you try to wake up in the morning\u2026 Let\u2019s say you usually wake up at 6 am. You decide to wake up at 5 am in order to pray, but you fail to wake up at 5am. The next day, you can\u2019t wake up at 5am either. So, this is what we tell ourselves. \u201cI want to get up at five in the morning, but my body isn\u2019t cooperating.\u201d But that\u2019s not true. You go to sleep, and the alarm rings at 5am. You think to yourself, \u201cI need to wake up, I need to wake up, I need to wakeup\u2026.\u201d Let\u2019s say you say that ten times to yourself. What can you discover? Does it mean that you want to get up or that you don\u2019t want to get up? It means that you don\u2019t want to get up. That\u2019s why you are not getting up. If you analyse it, your thought or your conscious knows you need to get up, but your heart or your subconscious \u2013 because it has become used to waking up at 6 am \u2013 refuses to wake up. That\u2019s why there is conflict between your conscious and your subconscious. Who wins this battle? Your subconscious usually wins. So, your subconscious is much more powerful than your conscious. There\u2019s an adage in Korea, \u201cWhen you resolve to do something, the resolution only lasts three days.\u201d When you decide to form a new habit or start a new activity, you can rarely continue doing it for more than three days. That\u2019s why you have to change your subconscious. Changing a habit is not a matter of choice or decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP:<\/strong> You have to admit as a first step that when you are not doing something, it means that you don\u2019t want to do it. Let\u2019s go back to the moment you wanted to get up. You should just get up at 5 am. Then, there\u2019s no need for that tension of wanting to get up but not being able to. You make the decision to want to get up only when you don\u2019t want to get up. All thoughts are distractions. To stop being distracted, when the alarm goes off, just get up right away, instead of thinking that you need to get up. instead of deciding not to procrastinate anymore, just do it. Instead of thinking about going, just get there. Instead of thinking about giving something, just give it. Your action must come before your words. Only then will you be able to change your karma. However, it is true that it is extremely hard to change your karma. When you don\u2019t change your habits, it means that you can still bear living with your karma. Although you procrastinated, you were able to graduated, right? When you begin work, you will continue to procrastinate, but you will still be okay. You can just live the way you are, and don\u2019t worry too much about your procrastination. Of course, there are some consequences for procrastinating. If you don\u2019t want those consequences, you have to change. Instead of thinking of doing something, just do it. Then, you will change. However, this is extremely hard, so I am not sure whether you will be able to change.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How Can I Break My Procrastination Habit?","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"how-can-i-break-my-procrastination-habit","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-16 15:40:28","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-16 20:40:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.jungtosociety.org\/demo2021\/?p=3694","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":2},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"jnews_block_37"};
