A Change in My Heart Changed My Family Relationships

Buddhability

SGI-USA

Health & Fitness, Self-help, Self-care, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Buddhism

4.9 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes we may wish the people around us were different. Today’s guest, Brigid Perry of Boston, shares how chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo honestly about her feelings toward her family helped her make a fundamental shift in the way she views them.

Today’s episode is also available in video format here.

References:

The New Human Revolution, vol 1, pp. 173-4.

Living Buddhism, June 2024, p. 5.

The New Human Revolution, vol 30, Ch. 4.

Cheat Sheet:

02:05 Brigid joins her sister at a Buddhist meeting

07:45 Her brother comes home due to illness

13:00 Wishing her family would change so life would be easier

21:30 How Buddhist study helped her shift her perspective

26:20 Seeing her brother in a new light

33:15 Chanting to cherish her family just as they are

39:10 A once unimaginable family moment

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Transcript

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0:00.0	From SGIUSA, I'm Cassidy Bradford and this is bootability.
0:06.9	The weekly series where I talk with Buddhists from all walks of life about the power we each have to change our lives and the world around us.
0:18.3	What a wild couple of weeks, right? Thank you so much to everyone who listened to or watched
0:24.9	the Orlando episode. It's been incredibly rewarding to hear how the episode touched people's lives
0:30.4	and to be reminded of the impact that bootability has. Now we're back and better than ever
0:35.8	launching a video counterpart to each interview episode.
0:39.3	So if you prefer to watch the show, you can subscribe to the bootability channel on YouTube.
0:43.3	If you're like me and love the audio experience, then you'll be happy to hear that we'll keep putting out each episode as audio too.
0:50.3	This week, we're talking about family.
0:53.3	Do you have someone in your family or maybe a friend,
0:57.5	classmate, or coworker that you just wish would be different than how they are? In my case,
1:04.4	I can find someone in my environment that I wish did things the way that I do them, which, to
1:10.3	nobody's surprise, leads to problems. It can cloud my
1:13.9	ability to see their great qualities, or maybe the way I speak with them causes some friction.
1:19.7	From the perspective of Buddhism, human relationships are a mirror. So today, I'm talking with
1:25.5	Bridget Perry of Boston about how she used Buddhism to see herself
1:29.5	clearly, show up differently in her family, and how that helped her to shift her relationships.
1:38.6	My name's Bridget Perry. I live in Boston, Massachusetts. I'm 31 years old and I work as a nurse in the emergency room.
1:46.0	Yay, Virgin.
1:48.0	I'm so glad.
1:49.0	I'm so happy to have you here.
1:51.0	Thank you for joining for the podcast.
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