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What is Fortune?
Today we are talking about fortune. But first I must ask, what is fortune? Fortune as in some kind of prediction? It’s commonly thought of as a prediction. Fortune is what the world provides you, or lack thereof as in bad fortune. Or as in a gathering of wealth be it money, friends etc. What…
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Identify Inherit Worth
There is fortune going around. In one form it’s called money, and money has existed since well before what we understand as the modern form. In fact, the early offerings made to the gods were typically exchanged as a form of currency. One god likes potatoes but you don’t grow any potatoes so instead you…
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Seed of Fortune
We, in western thinking, are unbalanced, feeling materialistic gain is more important. This is why things are struggling so badly now. What happens with people who try to hoard or withhold things of value? How well does a miser live? A very crowded house. Crowded to the point of denying them the benefit of the house.…
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Reap What You Sow
What of your possession have so much worth that you would trade a life for them? Would you trade a life for your house? Having shelter is pretty important, but is it worth a life? I can name something I would trade my life for. I would trade it for my wife’s life or my…
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Fortune vs Karma
It does get hard to reconcile the fact that good things happen to bad people and vice versa. Good fortune happens to bad people because fortune treats everyone equally. Bad people can understand the web of fortune, can’t they? Yes. They are able to understand it as well as good people are, and some even make…
Category: Fortune
Fortune is akin to the Buddhist concept of merit. One can engage in acts that have merit and still have bad luck. We choose to be fortunate, and we can choose to be fortunate even in circumstances that others might see as unfortunate. Choice can affect fortune even if it doesn’t seem to change luck. We all know people who seem to encounter serious misfortune, perhaps on a chronic basis. They don’t really understand the worth of the events that happen to them. They don’t see the web of fortune.
Fortune happens whether it’s going well or poorly, and many goods are lost or fail to come to fruition because support is withheld. Since we cannot help everyone as individuals, what if instead we just chose to be mindful of the web of fortune in our immediate surroundings? Find one good that we can foster for a time.
“Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her” Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
“To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.” Proverb