PART ONE

My daughter just slapped me across the face – 7 times!  This is how we cope with my impure perceptions sometimes (because it hurts, it’s not for everyone!).  May I ask how you cope with your impure perceptions?

PART TWO

These are the perceptions for me alone.  Since Buddhists believe we are all connected, you may share the same perceptions.

Job 17 NABRE 

2 Surely mockers surround me,

    at their provocation, my eyes grow dim.

(People around me mock me for my thoughts, words and expression.)

. . .

4 You darken their minds to knowledge;

    therefore you will not exalt them.

(I am in mental anguish and others do not listen to my cry for help because I am not talking the way I should be – how should I talk? I also stop listening.)

. . .

6 I am made a byword of the people;

    I am one at whom people spit.

(I am chastised by others that everything I say is anger and does not make sense.  They seem to spit on me.)

7 My eyes are blind with anguish,

    and my whole frame is like a shadow.

(I keep thinking that I am nobody.  Nobody understands me.)

8 The upright are astonished at this,

    the innocent aroused against the wicked.

(Nobody understands me.  And the wicked begin to rise in me.)

. . .

11 My days pass by, my plans are at an end,

    the yearning of my heart.

(The days go by with me in deep anxiety and depression)

. . .

15 Where then is my hope,

    my happiness, who can see it?

(Someone help me.)

PART THREE

My thoughts in PART TWO came out to be a poem.

(People around me mock me for my thoughts, words and expression.)

(I am in mental anguish and others do not listen to my cry for help because I am not talking the way I should be – how should I talk? I also stop listening.)

(I am chastised by others that everything I say is anger and does not make sense.  They seem to spit on me.)

(I keep thinking that I am nobody.  Nobody understands me.)

(Nobody understands me.  And the wicked begin to rise in me.)

(The days go by with me in deep anxiety and depression)

(Someone help me.)

And, the way that I purify my mind is to realign my thoughts.  And the only way I have found useful for me is to refer to a long time bestselling book, the BIBLE, and the saints.  (Note that this is the only way I know and it has further along my new year’s resolution to be successful at being me.)  Here it goes.

“Give yourself fully to God.  He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His Love than in your weakness.” – Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Psalm 22:28-32

New American Bible (Revised Edition)

IV

28 All the ends of the earth

    will remember and turn to the Lord;

All the families of nations

    will bow low before him.

29 For kingship belongs to the Lord,

    the ruler over the nations.

30 [a]All who sleep in the earth

    will bow low before God;

All who have gone down into the dust

    will kneel in homage.

31 And I will live for the Lord;

    my descendants will serve you.

32 The generation to come will be told of the Lord,

    that they may proclaim to a people yet unborn

    the deliverance you have brought.

ALL IS WELL NOW.