Cattāri Brahmavihārā

I almost couldn’t bring myself to write the title of today’s post due to a deeply engrained aversion to the term “positive” when applied as an adjective to describe one’s outlook. But despite my malformed and utterly adolescent misgivings I am finding more and more that keeping a positive outlook is key not just to succeed but to survival. Negativity, worry and anxiety do nothing to prepare our fortify you against the cruelty of life. Instead they weaken you and conspire to suck the joy or if your life. I have watch my mind when it has been stuck in the grasp of negativity and it’s not pretty. I become a man, miserly and cruel little man. So, I give thanks today for the hard lessons life had taught and for all of the teachers and friends who have helped prepare my heart to receive them. Buddham Dhammam Sanghan namasami.