EP163 - Be a Conqueror

WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.830 --> 00:00:15.269 Good Day, my friend. Welcome to a moment with modes. Thank you 2 00:00:15.509 --> 00:00:19.910 so much for downloading the show. I am so glad that you're here. 3 00:00:20.750 --> 00:00:26.300 Hope you are having a great day Wednesday. So that means we are going 4 00:00:26.339 --> 00:00:33.380 to be continuing our look at eastern philosophers. We welcome the Buddha onto the 5 00:00:33.460 --> 00:00:39.850 show, and the Buddha tells us conquer the angry one by not getting angry, 6 00:00:40.490 --> 00:00:46.329 conquered the wicked by goodness, conquered, the stingy by generosity and the 7 00:00:46.530 --> 00:00:56.200 liar by speaking the truth. Why is it that sometimes the simplest things are 8 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:03.040 the hardest ones to do? On high vibration days, I can do all 9 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:11.549 of those things. It's pretty easy and it's pretty straightforward, but I have 10 00:01:11.750 --> 00:01:17.750 to admit to you, my friend, my dear listener, that every day 11 00:01:18.780 --> 00:01:23.260 is not a high vibration day. And of course, when I say high 12 00:01:23.260 --> 00:01:30.099 vibration day, I mean when we're in tune with our higher self, our 13 00:01:30.219 --> 00:01:38.450 ideal self, our inner Buddha, if you will. I still have those 14 00:01:38.010 --> 00:01:44.489 other high vibration days, though. You know the ones. I mean, 15 00:01:45.409 --> 00:01:56.079 the ones where I'm vibrating with anger and I know that whoever or whatever angers 16 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:01.230 you becomes your master. That's one of the first things that epictet is told 17 00:02:01.269 --> 00:02:07.789 me. But it can be just so much easier to meet people where they 18 00:02:07.830 --> 00:02:15.590 are, especially when we're right. You know, at the moment it seems 19 00:02:15.629 --> 00:02:23.139 like people can't even agree to disagree. We're right, you're wrong. So 20 00:02:23.300 --> 00:02:30.409 much anger out there right now. It can make us feel better to separate 21 00:02:30.569 --> 00:02:38.849 ourselves from the people whose views and and behaviors that we don't like to create. 22 00:02:38.969 --> 00:02:43.849 that US them. But, my friend, we have to be careful 23 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:52.800 not to think of them as evil or less than or even and I know 24 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:58.590 it's hard to not think of people as stupid if they don't hold our opinion, 25 00:02:58.669 --> 00:03:04.069 because how could they not? But when we do that, it makes 26 00:03:04.150 --> 00:03:10.030 it more likely that we're going to start lashing out at them the same way 27 00:03:10.069 --> 00:03:19.020 they lash out at us, and just like that we become just like them. 28 00:03:20.500 --> 00:03:24.939 Here's the thing. You don't have to be like them. Screaming your 29 00:03:25.219 --> 00:03:30.129 fool head off and flipping the bird while cutting off the mini van that just 30 00:03:30.449 --> 00:03:37.610 cut you off mode will not prevent you from being cut off again in the 31 00:03:37.849 --> 00:03:44.400 future. My friend, we can't be anger with anger. We can't be 32 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:50.919 hate with hate. We have to stay true to that higher vision of ourselves. 33 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:58.270 We don't want to become the monster that we're fighting. Carpet momentum, 34 00:03:58.389 --> 00:04:00.110 my friend, I'll talk to You Tomorrow