Tuesday, 8th April 2025 - What kind deeds did I do today to make others happy

1. I washed the bathroom including mopping the floor.

2. I washed the plates and cutlery and pot in the sink.

3. I emptied the bins.

4. I watered the plants in the front and back garden.

5. Today I applied for a voluntary job.

Comments

1. It is good to look physically attractive because it makes others happy to see an attractive you since you can't see yourself when you are with others but others can see you. Some medication makes you look ugly and gain weight quickly but you can still combat this by having a weight within normal BMI by not over-eating and by exercising to keep healthy. I keep a calorie counting app to help me with my weight loss to my desirable weight within BMI. When you are slim, you look prettier and you are more confident and you look great in most clothes and your skin is better quality.

2. It is good to work for free full time and claim benefits because you are helping improve society at minimal cost to society. This is very kind. If everyone worked for free on benefits than everyone would get good quality kind service and goods at very low costs or for free. Ideally everyone works for free to be kind and gets everything they want or need for free. So work for free and live off the charity of kind tax payers or kind doners until everyone works for free and everything is free. This a utopian society which I know is achievable when everyone is kind.

3. What are the three poisons in Buddhism? The three poisons are: greed (raga, also translated as lust), hatred (dvesha, or anger), and delusion (moha, or ignorance). The three poisons are opposed by three wholesome, or positive attitudes essential to liberation: generosity (dana), lovingkindness (maitri, Pali: metta), and wisdom (prajna). Buddhist practice is directed toward the cultivation of these virtues and the reduction or destruction of the poisons; practitioners identify those thoughts that give rise to the three poisons and don’t dwell on them, while nurturing the thoughts that give rise to the three positive attitudes.

   
   

   Fire is a central metaphor of Buddhism, typically as a negative quality of mind or consciousness. Putting out these fires is the goal of Buddhist practice. The word nirvana is derived from the extinguishing of fire. Sariputra, one of the Buddha’s chief disciples, was once asked, “What is nirvana?” He answered, “The destruction of greed, the destruction of anger, the destruction of delusion—this is nirvana.”