Dear Jack:

“if we can’t avoid replaying our story in our head, we’d better to distort it in our favour than against.”

Best not to distort any story. Better tell it like it is. Sickness and dysfunction reside in distortions. The whole principle of being buddha like awake, is to see the bare minimum of what is, that is – the truth after peeling off all distortions, in your favor or against.

There is no bliss in ignorance (“ignorance is bliss”) and there is no bliss in distorting in your favor. The example you gave may help you, let’s say, in an interview for a teaching position, but if you get the job based on the distortion you introduced into the interview and you end up in a classroom- same discipline problems and the truth will become clear to the employer.

anita

P.S. I think that you and I, Jack, are the only ones on tiny buddha tonight. It’s been very slow lately AND tonight is Thanksgiving Eve in the U.S. I am here because I am home alone, my choice, but this night and tomorrow are the most family oriented holiday in the U.S. People commit suicide being alone on Thanksgiving. Not that I recommend it, not at all. Neither am I considering it. But I am alone on Thanksgiving, by choice, and it feels so STRANGE, so very strange. But I digress. You and I may be the only ones. If someone else reads this, please make yourself known.