How Living True to Myself Improved My Relationships
Buddhability
SGI-USA
4.9 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Whether we like it or not, we don’t exist in isolation. The interconnection of life means that when we change, our environment changes as well.
Today’s guest, Heidi Hayashi, of Stratford, Conn., shares how finding the courage to live true to herself improved and deepened her family relationships.
References:
The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition p. 270
Buddhism Day by Day: Wisdom for Modern Life, p. 315
The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4, p. 20
Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth & Death
The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition
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| 0:00.0 | From SGIUSA, I'm Cassidy Bradford and this is bootability. |
| 0:07.0 | A 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. |
| 0:27.5 | Happy New Year, everyone, and welcome back to our regularly scheduled programming. |
| 0:32.4 | I hope that you've all been able to welcome 2024 with some fresh goals that you're already working toward. I know when it comes to goals or resolutions, though, how many of us set truly scary goals? |
| 0:39.3 | I'm sure we all have some dreams or things that we'd really love to happen, but have become resigned to the fact that they just won't. |
| 0:47.3 | So why even try? |
| 0:49.3 | Every time we sit down to chant Namyo Hō-Hon Hōnikeyo about anything in our life, we're |
| 0:54.8 | battling our self-doubt. Instead of totally giving in to our negativity, we make a cause |
| 1:00.2 | to make an impossible goal possible. Even if you don't believe that it's possible in that moment, |
| 1:05.5 | you're still making the cause that maybe it just might be possible. The path to accomplishing unfathomable things can be long, though. |
| 1:14.6 | That's why we have this Buddhist community. |
| 1:17.1 | When we connect, we listen to how other people turned things that they thought were truly |
| 1:21.7 | inconceivable into a reality. |
| 1:24.3 | I can't count the number of times I listened to someone's story and thought, |
| 1:28.0 | wow, if they can do it, that means it's actually possible. So maybe I can do it too. |
| 1:35.6 | So today's episode is going to be perfect for you if you have some impossible dreams about |
| 1:41.3 | living the life you want, healing, strained relationships, loved ones |
| 1:45.8 | becoming happy, and even developing deeper bonds with loved ones who have passed. I really hope |
| 1:51.7 | that today's episode will help you summon up the courage to challenge whatever feels impossible |
| 1:55.6 | in your life. This week's guest, Heidi Hayashi of Stratford, Connecticut, shares how she finally learned to listen to her heart and become a person of limitless courage, compassion, and wisdom. |
| 2:11.6 | I'm Heidi Hayashi, living in Stratford, Connecticut. |
| 2:18.3 | I currently work for an IT company as a Japanese translator and I'm now 29 years old. |
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