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RP Post 3 RP Post 3 Cont. >> rushing toward the future
 * 1) 1. How can living the teachings of Buddha help with living a meaningful life?
 * 2) 2. How Can we Live a Meaningful Life
 * 3) 3. In the footsteps of Buddha (Fiction)
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 * 5) 5. 6.14.14 at home
 * 6) 6. Subject- a man’s idea of living a meaningful life. Occasion- people wondering how to live a meaningful life. Audience- people wondering how to live a meaningful life, adults, teens. Purpose- to give his take on how to live a meaningful life. Tone- Opinionated, informational
 * 7) 7. Living a meaningful life means trying to live a spiritual life and being a spiritual person. Have a clear idea of a higher purpose and use your life work to achieve this purpose.
 * 8) 8. The way of finding happiness and fulfillment is to use this life to develop positive qualities, like wisdom, love and compassion, making your heart bigger.
 * 9) 9. I am persuaded by this author’s treatment of the topic because he reaches out to the reader as a peer.
 * 10) 10. Quotes
 * 11) a. “How can we live meaningfully?”
 * 12) b. And I quoted something the Dalai Lama  said: “Personally, I believe that the purpose of our existence is to seek happiness, to seek a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.”
 * 13) c. For me living a meaningful life boils down to trying to live a spiritual life and becoming a spiritual person.
 * 14) d. To be a truly spiritual person requires to have a clear idea of a higher purpose. And you need to actually use your life to work towards this purpose.
 * 15) e. The wise way of finding happiness and fulfillment seems to me to use this life to develop positive qualities, like wisdom, love and compassion.
 * 16) f. As Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche , one of my teachers, used to say, the aim of Buddhist practice is to make our heart and mind bigger.
 * 1) 1. How do Buddhist teachings guide someone to living a meaningful life.
 * 2) 2. Drink You Tea
 * 3) 3. Thich Nhat Hahn (Poet)
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 * 5) 5. 6.14.14 at home
 * 6) 6. Subject-how to drink your tea, Occasion- how to approach drinking tea, Audience- tea drinkers, everyone, Buddhist people, Purpose- to emphasize the mindfulness you should have while doing something as simple as tea drinking, Speaker-Thich Nhat Hahn, Buddhists, Tone-Calm, spiritual
 * 7) 7. When you drink your tea, focus on it and only it. Believe that what you are doing at that moment is all that is going on in your world.
 * 8) 8. When you do anything such as drinking tea, pay close attention to what you are doing. Believe as if what you are doing is the only thing important or going on in the world around you. Everything you do is substantial.
 * 9) 9. Persuaded at level 8. I believe being mindful will make you evolve on a spiritual level but do you have to do that for EVERYTHING you do?
 * 10) 10. Quotes
 * 11) a. as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves
 * 12) b. without
 * 1) c. Live the actual moment.
 * 2) d. Only this moment is life.