{"id":830,"date":"2009-09-28T11:58:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T11:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/09\/yom-kippur-2009-karma-prayer.html"},"modified":"2009-09-28T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T11:58:43","slug":"yom-kippur-2009-karma-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/09\/yom-kippur-2009-karma-prayer.html","title":{"rendered":"Yom Kippur 2009: Atonement – Karma isn’t Just a Buddhist Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ethan Nichtern<\/b><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

As your typical half-jew, half-protestant, God-loving agnostic and Buddhist<\/a> practitioner, I wanted to wish everyone a very fruitful Yom Kippur 2009<\/a>. Someone mentioned to me that they think atonement and fasting, seem un-Buddhist, because of the possibility of both guilt and dwelling on the past. I just want to offer that the Dharma provides a whole array of purification and atonement practices. The simplest one is called the four powers, a simple four-step process for working with and purifying negative habits. It can apply to whatever you want to apply it to – weight lose, completing your manuscript (my personal atonement), quitting smoking, or anger management.<\/p>\n

\"yom_kippur_prayer_jew.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>The Four Powers (or Four R’s – Props to Pema Chodron<\/a> who teaches this impeccably):<\/p>\n

1. Recognition – the practice of mindfulness meditation allows us to actually see how thought patterns work and link them to our actions in daily life.
2. Remorse – We take to heart that actions have consequence, and gently vow to shift our intention in the future.
3. Remedial Action – Simply put, we try something different, something outside our habitual reaction, whatever that might be. Maybe it’s just resting with the impulse of the habit for a few minutes before deciding what to do.
4. Repeating Again and Again – Habits are not superficial things. They require us to view awareness as a daily practice, and moment by moment to keep working with our mind.<\/p>\n

Have a great holiday, everyone. Peace to all the Jews and non-Jews in the lotus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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