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How do I keep motivation?
This topic is very prudent. With busy working lives and so much on offer in terms of online entertainment, it is extremely easy to postpone any chanting. To many people, even 10 minutes per day is a challenge - the excuses of too busy start flooding the mind. Most people spend more than 10 minutes on their phone looking at rubbish, however. I recently read a book by James Clear, titled "Atomic Habits." I thought many of the common sense, practical suggestions in this book could be applied to daily chanting. Habits (in this case daily chanting) become automatic if you can: a/ make it obvious - set up your environment to trigger cues to remind you. b/ make it attractive - if you can achieve your goal of 10 minutes every day for 6 months - give yourself a reward. Of course, chanting should be reward enough, but if a nice bottle of red wine helps then why not! c/ make it easy - start with just 2 minutes of chanting every day until the habit is formed and then inc...
Does HBS believe in a Heaven or Hell?
This is one of the first questions a Christian or Muslim might have. The short answer to this question is yes and no. Although this sounds evasive, the answer is yes HBS does believe in Heaven (Nirvana) and Hell (Naraka). But no, they are not places a soul reaches upon death. Rather than being a destination, HBS along with most other traditions, view heaven, and hell as a place we can be in right now. They are "states of being" that we experience in our lives right now rather than a permanent location. HBS believes there are ten possible states of being and heaven and hell are just two of them. Hell is on a spectrum from a sense of anger or frustration at the mild end to complete misery at the other end. Just as heaven could be temporary pleasure in a doing something you enjoy to the more long-lasting love you feel with a happy family. Our life floats up and down, in and out of each of these realms. But what about upon death? Similar to what a Christian might believ...