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Hi,
I think of myself too much and karma when I pray. How do I fix this behavior?

Thank You.
 
Perhaps choose one thing outside yourself that is genuinely important to you and be sure to spend a lot of time on that during prayer.
You might also reflect on why you think more of your self during prayer than you would like. Perhaps you think of yourself as much as is natural or perhaps you hold on to a lot of fears that are holding you back.

Best of luck,
Your friendly neighbourhood unbeliever.
 
THERE ONCE WAS A SUPERHUMAN WARRIOR WHO DECLINED TO FIGHT...the advise he received was:

You have a right to perform your prescribed duty,
but you are not entitled to the fruits of action.
Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities,
and never be attached to not doing your duty. (2.47)

PURPORT by an old wise Indian:
There are three considerations here: prescribed duties, capricious work, and inaction.
Prescribed duties refer to activities performed while one is in the modes of material nature.
Capricious work means actions without the sanction of authority,
and inaction means not performing one's prescribed duties.

The Lord advised that Arjuna not be inactive, but that he perform his prescribed duty without being attached to the result.
One who is attached to the result of his work is also the cause of the action.
Thus he is the enjoyer or sufferer of the result of such actions.
As far as prescribed duties are concerned, they can be fitted into three subdivisions,
namely routine work, emergency work and desired activities.
Routine work, in terms of the scriptural injunctions, is done without desire for results.
As one has to do it, obligatory work is action in the mode of goodness.
Work with results becomes the cause of bondage; therefore such work is not auspicious.
Everyone has his proprietary right in regard to prescribed duties,
but should act without attachment to the result;
such disinterested obligatory duties doubtlessly lead one to the path of liberation.
Arjuna was therefore advised by the Lord to fight as a matter of duty without attachment to the result.
His non-participation in the battle is another side of attachment.
Such attachment never leads one to the path of salvation.
Any attachment, positive or negative, is cause for bondage. Inaction is sinful.
Therefore, fighting as a matter of duty was the only auspicious path of salvation for Arjuna.
 
rit said:
Hi,
I think of myself too much and karma when I pray. How do I fix this behavior?

Thank You.
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Self? Karma? My friend, we are never without these things. Especially when we pray, but through prayer one can discover their true self. The soul resting within. The important thing to remember is to allow your true self to influence the person you are in the flesh and not the other way around.
 
Maybe just confess what was done wrong and the resolve not to do it again. That's it. Ready to walk on.

That's better than praying, because that does not help anything, is just of short use for those who believe that it's possible to walk a path of corruption to a better destiny.
 
Samana Johann said:
That's better than praying, because that does not help anything, is just of short use for those who believe that it's possible to walk a path of corruption to a better destiny.
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This isn't an interfaith statement. Remember that we're not here to judge others and their beliefs. We're here to engage in constructive dialogue. This is not constructive.
 
StevePame said:
This isn't an interfaith statement. Remember that we're not here to judge others and their beliefs. We're here to engage in constructive dialogue. This is not constructive.
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That's even interpractical, Steve, and what judges is always conscious. Knowing this one uses a constructive way. That even Christans do no more use that way is interignorance, Steve. Now watch conscious careful .

Whould you prefer a philosophical discussion on the benefit of confessing or a psychological thesis which "new from sciences" header, you would. Since it tasts more inter, actually is more inter (if taking the meaning of the word).
 
wil said:
Always interesting to hear from you directly and not the one who speaks for you.
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Maybe better to think about what my person writes rather to think about my person, but what ever Wil thinks that it makes him proper attached and that gives release to have place for insight.

spekulations and nature of people with doubt
It's just as if a man were wounded with an arrow thickly smeared with poison. His friends & companions, kinsmen & relatives would provide him with a surgeon, and the man would say, 'I won't have this arrow removed until I know whether the man who wounded me was a noble warrior, a brahman, a merchant, or a worker.' He would say, 'I won't have this arrow removed until I know the given name & clan name of the man who wounded me... until I know whether he was tall, medium, or short... until I know whether he was dark, ruddy-brown, or golden-colored... until I know his home village, town, or city... until I know whether the bow with which I was wounded was a long bow or a crossbow... until I know whether the bowstring with which I was wounded was fiber, bamboo threads, sinew, hemp, or bark... until I know whether the shaft with which I was wounded was wild or cultivated... until I know whether the feathers of the shaft with which I was wounded were those of a vulture, a stork, a hawk, a peacock, or another bird... until I know whether the shaft with which I was wounded was bound with the sinew of an ox, a water buffalo, a langur, or a monkey.' He would say, 'I won't have this arrow removed until I know whether the shaft with which I was wounded was that of a common arrow, a curved arrow, a barbed, a calf-toothed, or an oleander arrow.' The man would die and those things would still remain unknown to him.
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(Wils original text was changes so it might look out of context, yes)

How ever, the wisesd way is to think fist on the results of kamma/karma (action by thought, speech, body) before doing. That avoids later be remorseful, need to confess and struggling around wish unwise suggestions.

So long as an evil deed has not ripened, the fool thinks it as sweet as honey (and laughs). But when the evil deed ripens, the fool comes to grief.

dhp 69
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:)) ohh Wil has always focus on the really not importand things... My persons mistake for wondering. Will posted same message with other word in other tread and Atma wondered. (The statement of "was corrected" is incorrect: pardon, excusse: post one post, correct, open a tread requires often 20 min and more, with lot of tricks) So no need to worry about any claims and my person. The post after follows the next of yours. Sorry quoting is technical mostly not possible and so one easy gets things mixed up)

Something on topic?
 
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