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Sunny Day Teachings:
Fit for the Tedium:
Fit for a Largely Bad Day:
Fit for Transitions:
A Good Day Can Be HarvestedOne is to bear approaches to appearances and learn just how to observe in general. Then go on from there, on top of it. Study well, that is. However, "There are many valid interpretations of what is worth while," says John J. Sparkes [Tpd 135]. What about winning instead of wasting one more nice-looking day?Learn to ask a winner question to yourself in any encounter: "What is at stake here?" Try to sort it out, preferably in advance. Ask yourself such as, "Who benefits?" and "Where does the money go?" Also "Follow the money flow" to search out something interesting, even. It helps to be prepared [Fable]. "In fair weather prepare for foul" (American proverb). You can keep your things tidy and see to upkeep and repair before going get precarious. It helps to have necessities at hand. Sound precautions may assist us through some phases of doings. Also try to sort out what good you can do all right. Good schooling is fit for improving a life too. Another stand is that at the height of good times, or when everything looks calm and easy, one had better get more than average suspicious and bulwark against attacks, disasters, and the like. The fact is that when all is calm, great danger may be approaching fast, and it tends to help to be prepared for troubles in some ways. Bulwarking may help, for example.
Inspect up to snuff. A circumspect man or woman resists being satisfied only with surface appearances. Fit sayings - no matter their origin and original setting (context) - can be grouped in this way:
Could we need an oracle saying for a good day?" Maybe, many not. How much free space do you have, after all? There are some whose lives are set so that they cannot do very much else than what they are doing anyway. A question is, then, what you can make out of the oracle saying in some helpful, constructive way. That depends on yourself too. So to what degree are you free to try out and tentatively apply costly insights in your own fare (life). What can be reshaped, formatted or formed in new ways? And what will the costs be? What could be at stake in a new fare? Try to determine such things first. Do what you can as soon as you can, preferably in good time. In nature, on sunny, abundant days and well-nigh any other days, wild animals learn to be alert and prepared for unexpected dangers no matter how, in order to carry on. Statistics often divulge sides of how conditions deteriorate or are, they don't remedy our mistakes and transgressions, thanks to big businessA good day doesn't maim you, and maybe it leaves you happier, more clear-sighted, richer on some levels - for example richer in good deeds or stored merits - or more healthy. a day when you have shown good moral, is termed a good day too. A wasted day, on the other hand, works in quite opposite ways than the ones above. When you waste free time and other resources, spend your qualitity time foolishly or with litte forethought, you may be on a road of weakening yourself. One trouble is you may not notice how confusion like fog comes on silent cat paws. Another side to it is that some long-lasting hard experiences are introduced by something sweet or pleasant to all appearances, like the sugar-coating of the bitter pill. And having sex with a neighbour's wife may be felt to be very pleasant till remorse knocks on you door, or your neighbour does. In retrospect you may find that some days that you thought were good days, eventually took you downhill. There are many teachings that eventually bring you down. As far as I can see, Buddha's teachings do not.
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| Collecting beads on a strand: Tick tack toe scheming |
It could help if you think of the figure as a string of beads. They are numbered 1-10 and coloured deep blue, deep red, and green. They can be grouped or "chunked" in different ways. To avoid risks of deflection and the like, try to pay attention in particular to initial stages of the streches or groups. Here we go:
The movement or flow of chained items that this scenario hints at, may warn against flounderings - that is, swerving from one's most probable, constructive (all-round building) route of drills that goes well along with one's character and conditions in general - or that seeks to improve them. [More]
Any TTT (tick tack toe) essay is in reality a Tao verse aiming at some good and sound all-round fare and Tao, if possible. On a horrible day it may pay to think much better, for example by mapping the main points and aligning yourself to what works best for you - short-term, tedium-wise, and in the long run. That is a significant side to Buddha's teachings.
EVEN IN AN UNLUCKY week we can gather relevant trophies, for example by hard work and some questioning, like "What's the root of this and that problem?"
Note the force of emotions and try not to feign or pretend and thus make yourself pretentious, even hypocritical along that fare.
It is possible to draw "help" - that is, life wisdom - from many sources. From what follows in this section you may get an inkling, and perhaps the idea, "Get the best out of it," which is even above "Turn unbridled if you can".
Astrology is one side to the history of human civilizations, and so is Ares (Mars), the Greek god that is taken to show sides to the planet Mars influence in a life or horoscope. Greek gods are parts of a map of the sky where planets are said to interact with one another in certain ways, and where it is more or less an honour to be hurled beyond the solar system and become a star -
One basic idea involved in astrology's Mars and other planets and claimed influences of theirs, is that the associated prowesses may serve harmonious ends - peaceful ends, for example, or serve discordant ends: great battles, war, violence of conflict and more. To become less discordant may be shown by forging weapons of war into tools for peaceful trade and farming - that is one option. But if a single individual finds that sort of human endeavur to be good and fit, his more discordant-minded neighbours may despite him or her, and try to break him too. Just be aware of that, and make first-class precautions. Yu could benefit from being clever and sagacious through live too: skilfulness is advocated in Buddhism.
Domesticated buffaloes serves lots of humans in times of peace, but may not serve in war.
There are many proverbs that talk of animals, and natural scientists discover many things about animals and ourselves and life on earth, things to be greatly thankful for.
Turn unbridled if you can, and count the cost too.
Seek to be allied with the good sides to your family heritage, and wider, some mainstream of influence that works very well in your particular case and circumstances. You may "lift" elements higher, going from farm traditions to a biologist education, and so on. Tradition may pave the way for better, more refined or better customised programs later, by such as good education. ◊
How can we learn the art of maintaining the perfect and neat glide towards a life in the sun and be likely to take care to remain on the winning beam? We stay on the alert and back up what we can to be all-round prepared for well-nigh any common pitfalls we know of.
Unknown to some, the superior man lives on top of refining or making deft use of his obstacles, including his best inherited ones.
In nature the sincere may have good chances to advance their species. Bullies too. Humans are meant to get higher than the bullies. Reflect toward that.

Dipomacy first, "the buffalo take" just a bit, and at last grave criticism of bearing arms - is not that how the gospels teach a Christian is to live, and live in these days too? Phoneys go for acclaim beneath the veneers.
Truth can sound stranger than fiction. A self-helping and self-protecting scenario fit for bad days may serve to make good days work even better.
Learn to play yourself into the field
you should be in or on top of; next learn the art of trade, through study or otherwise. If you don't overdo these things, maybe you can
function all right and find time for vacations that matter, too.
Man needs good days to help him get a surplus so that he knows how to handle the averaged fare. If not, there is Transcendental Meditation, TM, for example. It builds health reserves, studies document. What truly helps matters. It should give great esteem later in life, if all goes well.
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It helps to forecast the weather with some accuracy. But to say "Tomorrow about as today" most often turns out to be a best forecast in quite stable climates. Similarly with lifes changes in cases where routines and not alarming new happenings are involved. It helps to be able to prognosticate core happenings too, but tenable clues are not always easy to found, all of them. Then,
"Be prepared in time for an unexpected hard turn or bad happening if you can." It's much like the Boy Scout's motto. You might improve your odds for happy survival if you learn to gauge odds and adjust in no menial ways to them. For example, the odds of winning a jackpot in the Norwegian Lotto is quite as that of being struck by lightning, but presumably more pleasant. Besides, Average statistics seldom applies perfectly to individual cases.
What helps to handle a rainy day could help on sunny days too, but maybe there is no particular need for them on good days. Still, "Diligent youth makes easy age." It's a proverb. [Dp 27]
Some learn from hard experiences to bulwark ahead of time, and use sunny days for that with profit adjusting to "If youth knew what age would crave, it would both get and save." - British proverb [Dp 27]
The Danish thinker Kierkegaard once observed, "Marry and you'll repend, don't marry and you'll also repent." His sentiment reflects rather harsh odds from stress research: If you want harmony, prefer not to marry. [Cf. Ams 467-9, 477] But if you marry well in time, things may be different.
The world revolves on wheels of habits. So what to do with what you get if you ask for an oracular statement in some connection or some occasion? Maybe you study it for the fun of it, just like buying lotto tickets - a little amusement or fad.
Carl Rogers realised that the fully functioning individual is no small attainment, but what is involved in it?
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