Summary of Sharon Salzberg & Robert Thurman's Love Your Enemies

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 We can meet the outer enemy when we’ve been harmed. In everyday life, we encounter many forms of harm. We may be insulted or abused, robbed or beaten, bullied or tormented, tortured or even killed.
#2 To deal with our enemies, we must first understand them. We must look at them as a potential danger, not unlike a truck approaching us on the highway. We must anticipate the truck’s path and take precautions to avoid it.
#3 Bullying is on the rise, and it can be done by individuals, systems, and families. It is typically done by excluding and attacking the victim, and the bully’s insecurity stems from their own weakness.
#4 When we are confronted with an enemy, we must be brave enough to confront them head on. Doing so gives us back our power and our effectiveness in the world.

Sujets

• Personal development
• Happiness

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 04 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669350101
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Sharon Salzberg & Robert Thurman's Love Your Enemies
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

We can meet the outer enemy when we’ve been harmed. In everyday life, we encounter many forms of harm. We may be insulted or abused, robbed or beaten, bullied or tormented, tortured or even killed.

#2

To deal with our enemies, we must first understand them. We must look at them as a potential danger, not unlike a truck approaching us on the highway. We must anticipate the truck’s path and take precautions to avoid it.

#3

Bullying is on the rise, and it can be done by individuals, systems, and families. It is typically done by excluding and attacking the victim, and the bully’s insecurity stems from their own weakness.

#4

When we are confronted with an enemy, we must be brave enough to confront them head on. Doing so gives us back our power and our effectiveness in the world.

#5

We must be able to face our fears and anger, and keep our cool, if we want to avoid being harmed by enemies. We can do this by imagining the worst case scenarios, and thinking about what death means to us.

#6

We typically fear death more than we do actually dying. We fear the pain and suffering that comes with it, but we can use that same pain and suffering to strengthen our resilience and ability to deal with future pain.

#7

Overcoming our anger toward others does not mean surrendering to them. We can defend ourselves more effectively if we deal with aggression without hatred or anger. The martial arts teach us that to defeat our opponents, we must transcend anger.

#8

When we approach other people’s successes with an attitude of sympathetic joy, we can genuinely and wholeheartedly receive happiness from their good fortune. Instead of running an internal monologue that goes something like, Oh no, you got that, but it was meant for me! It should be mine, and you took it away, we can accept that the prize was never ours and rejoice in the other person’s success.

#9

Our perception of others as enemies is influenced by how we have interacted with them in the past and how they have interacted with us. Our view of them is seldom an objective reflection of their qualities but tends to be a projection of our own aversion.

#10

We have to be able to expand our view of the world if we want to become truly empathic.