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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Karaha and Pasansa (Pathantha)


Today, I would like to share with my friends about one of the Buddha’s teachings for the persons who work for public, for the people who work with many others in a group, in a party; especially – for the leaders.

The Buddha said that someone who works for many others or someone who works with many others, or, leaders need to tolerate or resist two things in order to the service be well done:
- Karaha, and
- Pasansa.

Karaha means ‘dispraising’, ‘censuring’, ‘criticizing’, ‘opposition’, ‘pseudo praising’, ‘negatively approaching’, etc.
Pasansa means ‘praising’, ‘supporting’, ‘positively approaching’, ‘facing too many successes’, ‘facing too much famous’, and so on.

Both Karaha and Pasansa are not easy to resist or to tolerate at all.

There are many people who cannot tolerate on being criticized, while many others fail to realize the pseudo praising. Some leaders change their prime plans or directions because of the others’ dispraising, while some other leaders stop their trips because of hinders on the way, and various others even turn back from forwarding.

At the same time, many top leaders get early resigns and some of them even get fired because of inappropriate sex, receiving bribes, steal the public money, out of discipline, and so on. Some lottery winners get a shock and die on the spot after they hear that they win millions.

Basically, because of Karaha, we get anger, wariness and ignorance. Because of Pasansa, we get pride, greed and again - ignorance. And then, we make wrong decisions, inappropriate manners and activities. Afterwards, you know - the consequences. Since then, how should we defense or resist or tolerate on all those praise or dispraise, positive or negative, success or failure, famous or notorious? The only medicine for all of those diseases, is – “mindfulness.” Every time you get something bad or worse or the worst, tolerate on it with mindfulness. Every time you get something good or better or the best, resist on it with mindfulness. How to? Please try to remember of reminding by yourself that not to extremely feel about it; act or react on it, whether which is positive or negative. Go by the middle path appropriately, again – with ‘mindfulness.’

As soon as you lose your mindfulness in very sensitive cases, you die. ‘You die’ means – not your body. You may still have billions of dollars, or high position/s, but your fairness dies; your moral dies; your (true) value dies; your integrity dies; your great attitude dies. You will be alive with many properties, but actually (by the view of humanity’s true values), you died already.

So, my friends, the more you can tolerate those Karahas and Pasansas, you all will become better persons and greater leaders for yourselves; for your families, for your communities, for your countries and for our world as well. Those kinds of persons, people and leaders are needed in our world. Let us try our best to tolerate!

Thank you and have a great day!

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