Tenzin Norbu: Regret vs. Remorse


When we rivet in non-virtuous activities, we place disastrous potentialities in a minds. In general, all disastrous actions are caused by a base delusions of anger, rapacious connection (or craving) and ignorance. Ignorance might be suspicion of as a “tap root” of all delusions, since annoy and longing arise in a minds usually since we are ignorant of a loyal inlet of a things that means us to knowledge these disastrous emotions. Because disastrous actions are caused by ignorance, regret, rather than remorse, is a suitable approach to respond when we commend that we have intent in disastrous activities.

Remorse is a delusion, since when we feel remorse, we are observation ourselves as bad and corrupted by nature, and it is only as improper to perspective ourselves this approach as it is to perspective others this way. If we consider of ourselves as bad and corrupted by nature, we feel guilt, self-loathing and powerlessness. No one is bad and corrupted by nature; rather, we are raised these characteristics onto a objects we are observation in this way. Both non-virtuous actions and only actions arise since of a approach we perspective things, and we have a ability to discharge ignorant views and reinstate them with “right view” — one of a elements of a eightfold eminent path. By replacing ignorant views with right view, we emanate a conditions for a changes that capacitate us to swell on a trail to Buddhahood. If we perspective ourselves and others as carrying acted out of ignorance, we can feel a universal, unprejudiced adore of a bodhisattva rather than loathsome of self and others. It is right perspective to consider of ourselves and others as lovable, even when we act non-virtuously — only as a primogenitor or a clergyman views an uncontrolled child or client. By assessing a non-virtuous actions as regrettably ignorant, we start to emanate a conditions that capacitate us to take control of a actions rather than being slaves of annoy and craving. In sequence to discharge totally a stupidity that causes us to act regrettably, we need to freshen a disastrous potentialities we have placed in a minds by a ignorant actions, and in sequence to freshen a disastrous potentialities we have placed in a minds by a non-virtuous actions, we contingency start by woeful a ignorant actions that placed them there.

When we consider of a actions as regrettably ignorant, we open ourselves adult to branch to devout teachers, devout teachings and devout friends for superintendence about how to act wisely rather than ignorantly. In Buddhism, branch to these sources of superintendence is called “going for refuge” to a 3 wealth — Buddha, dharma and sangha. Sincerely woeful a non-virtuous actions and holding retreat in a 3 wealth are a initial dual stairs of a four-step routine that eliminates a disastrous potentialities in a minds that are caused by non-virtuous actions. The 3 wealth give us a superintendence and support we need to travel scold devout paths heading to enlightenment. By walking scold devout paths, we request an “opponent force” to a disastrous potentialities placed in a minds by non-virtuous actions and reinstate them with certain potentialities that come from only actions. We have a bent to continue to do what we have finished in a past, so we contingency reinstate non-virtuous actions with only actions in sequence to make devout progress. The final of a 4 stairs that freshen a disastrous potentialities placed in a minds by unfortunate actions is to vouch unequivocally to refrain from non-virtuous actions in a future. We should plead on this vouch to strengthen a reason it has on a minds.

In my blog, “Lojong Meditation: The Bodhisattva’s Mind-Training Practice,” we explained a 3 forms of imagining a bodhisattva uses and how they are concurrent in sequence to plead effectively. We can do analytic imagining on because non-virtuous actions are regrettable, and when we turn assured that we should desert them we can do chain imagining on a vouch to desert them. We can possibly plead on why, in general, non-virtuous function is regrettable, or we can plead on because a sold form of non-virtuous behavior, such as lying, is regrettable. In this blog post, we have discussed some of a reasons because non-virtuous behavior, in general, is regrettable, and in destiny blog posts we will plead because sold forms of non-virtue are regrettable. Analytic imagining to means us to feel bewail is really gainful to creation a vouch to equivocate non-virtuous actions in a future, since feeling distress can simply trap us in self-loathing. Rethink how we perspective yourself if we find yourself feeling remorse, so that we can perspective yourself as carrying acted regrettably as a outcome of ignorance. Love yourself as your possess studious who needs to overcome stupidity and use bewail to turn encouraged to travel a devout trail that eventually overcomes it. Using these steps, everybody can start to travel a devout paths that lead to a loyal and durability complacency of a correct person.

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