I was in a Buddhist meeting this afternoon and I found it an inspiring meeting. And even though I don’t consider myself a Buddhist (yet?) the message of Buddhism is very similar to what I am trying to achieve with this site: be successful in life. As I understand now Buddhists use chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo to achieve Buddhahood, meaning something like being at peace or being at peace with yourself or just ‘be’. And something like achieve what you are supposed to achieve or to be. Or at least that’s my interpretation now.
So what was inspiring? Well, basically the story of a woman who told about her winter in life, where everything seemed to go wrong, where they went bankrupt, lost everything. But her chanting helped her through and she went from winter to spring and seems very confident and positive about the future now. So to me this chanting is related to the faith and belief my favorite books talk about. And of course the reading out loud that is often suggested from my books of course relates to the Buddhist chanting aloud, including the repeating thing. And to me the chanting of this strange phrase also relates to the Infinite Intelligence Napoleon Hill relates to.
Also inspiring was being in a group, in a group of people believing in something, believing in a similar or the same thing. This relates to me to the Master Mind principle and I felt the power of the group.
And inspiring was indeed the idea of spring always follows winter, also in life. At least I guess that is true, although I’m still a bit scared it may not always be true or something like winter can still get colder.
But no matter what, I am starting to believe that everything is about belief and that if you have the belief you can achieve virtually anything.
So just believe.