<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Rules  in Helping&nbsp;Others]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>Be kind to others, help someone in need.</strong></span> &#8212;&#8212;- What a nice words &#8212;&#8212; as the Words.</p>
<p>Though, when its came to the practice, there are loads of question arise.</p>
<p>If you are a Buddhist, there must be the fundamental understanding to pay a respect to the Dharma.</p>
<p>Therefore has to accept the manifestation of the Karma.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Everybody got their own Karma. </strong><span style="color:#333333;">( Not only the Buddhists.   🙂  )</span><strong><br />
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<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; So, when something happened or you encountered and see somebody in difficulty and obviously</p>
<p>needs a help.  If it is a very simple matter, it may not very complicated &#8212;&#8212; just give a hand.</p>
<p>Though, if the matter was very serious and the help may affect the person&#8217;s life or fate. &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; M m m  ?</p>
<p>How do we know,  if it does not interfere the person&#8217;s Karma ?</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>To live on their own pathway according to their own Karma is their individual birthright.</strong></span></p>
<p>In the same time, we shouldn&#8217;t be obsessed by the idea of   &#8221; I&#8217;m helping others &#8221; &#8212;&#8212; just help without</p>
<p>having any notion of help.   If you do, you have to do it in Mushin.</p>
<p>Why encounter such situation, there was our own Karma  working as well &#8212;&#8212; It was not just an accident.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong> So, where a Buddhist draw a  line IN the Middle way ?</strong></span></p>
<p>For such situation or even for the general rules to deal with others, <span style="color:#333333;"><strong>I&#8217;m following a hose Rule</strong></span>.   Give a  help</p>
<p>automatically <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>but  ONLY once.</strong></span> ( Buddha said to have offered three times  though  I&#8217;m just a small man  I can</p>
<p>afford only once.  Any how we got only one life and only one chance, never able to try the same again &#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>&#8212;- have you ever seen or heard the same person born again and did the same attempt and succeeded ?</p>
<p>No such things like reincarnation exists. &#8212;&#8211; yes, decomposed my body, the element must be re-used to</p>
<p>constitute another life form, well may be a plant &#8212;&#8211; what so ever &#8212;&#8211; like a hydrogen atom in my body</p>
<p>has been recycled, recycled billions of times since it was created in the Big-Bang (allegedly) though,</p>
<p>no same person had ever created or same mind / soul ever exists, since even the soul is the result of</p>
<p>own Karma and the Karma of this moment is never the same in second later. No moment stays the same )</p>
<p><strong>If my help didn&#8217;t work, it is the sign, I&#8217;m doing wrong  AND / OR it is the person&#8217;s Karma.</strong></p>
<p>Struggling my way of help, believing this should work is the delusion.  It may make situation even worse.</p>
<p>Observe everything include the self, in the completely detached eyes.  So that never exited or panicked.</p>
<p>Other than technical difficulty, a sudden occurrence of blockage or short coming such as suddenly</p>
<p>mob-phone broken or train service halted etc<strong> is the sign of halt from the Dharma = stop it at once.</strong></p>
<p>If the help is essential and when you are doing it in your Mushin, Fully Minded, <strong>strangely all  other </strong></p>
<p><strong>factors work together as well.  Others give a hand, conveniently specialist appeared etc etc.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>So-called  Devine Intervention really happen.</strong></span></p>
<p>After the event,  never contact the person unless the person gave me a contact.</p>
<p>( If the person is a stranger, never exchange contact unless the follow-up is the essential part of advice</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;- avoid to touch personal matter as much as possible and limit only to the issue or problem itself)</p>
<p>It is the arrogance to see the result of the help. (such as &#8221; Have look I&#8217;ve successfully helped this person &#8220;)</p>
<p>As the matter of fact only the person knows whether the help was really helpful or not.</p>
<p>If the person is not grateful and contact to say thanks, it was a sign of inadequacy.</p>
<p>Then, erase the memory of event other than the data of the experience (practical technique etc).</p>
<p>Above all, I myself have  One Week Rule which is, even when I&#8217;ve offered a help for the project etc,</p>
<p>if it was not started or the person did not make a move within one week, its file is deleted &#8212;&#8211; so, I</p>
<p>will not retain the memory.  If it is not urgent to the person, why do I need to take initiative and if the</p>
<p>person got yet another problem occurred, it is the sign, Dharma is not keen to its project.</p>
<p>Me to help a project lie on front wouldn&#8217;t have any problem though I wouldn&#8217;t undertake the person&#8217;s worry.</p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>This is my way to live as a Zen Buddhist and live the life with  light luggage.<br />
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<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>___/\___ </strong></span></p>
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