Mind activities of a Stone boy

Whenever I am feeling down, I should pick up a pen and write down the gratitude that I have for my existence... 1. I am grateful for people to come to my house and watch the movie with me this afternoon. 2. I am grateful for all the words of wisdom that they share with me. 3. I am grateful to a small condo that I own. 4. I am grateful to the projector that I could borrow to show the film. 5. I am grateful to people that cleaned up the dishes before they leaf.

Ten Wholesome Qualities In Our Minds In the broadest conception of the path, in the vast context of spiritualpractice, we cultivate and nourish certain qualities that support and propel us forward into freedom. The Pali word parami refers to ten wholsome qualities in our minds and the accumulated power they bring to us: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve, lovingkindness, and equanimity. . . . Parami does not come from some being outside ourselves; rather, it comes from our own gradually accumulated purity. A Buddhist understanding of reliance on a higher power would not necessarily involve reliance on some supernatural being. It is, rather, a reliance on those forces of purity in ourselves that are outside our small, constricted sense of I, and that constitute the source of grace in our lives. -Joseph Goldstein, Insight Meditation from Everyday Mind, edited by Jean Smith, a Tricycle book