Mend Your Diet

When you SPEND valuable TIME with troubled individuals, do you get any positive functional CHANGE back?

We have elements of society who grind and gnash their teeth over the welfare of others and spend their time on cocaine and heroin, pretending to care, but oft times saying that the solution to problems in society is to "kill" the enemies of our country and their acquaintances including innocent men, women, children and all. And we have elements of our society who are not sensitive to the dangers that lurk in their diets and the air that they breathe and the communication that they make, the silence, the use of the words like always, never, and everything and prideful expressions, pushing away any who would share their advice saying things like "I'm good.", "I'm all set.", when their diet or other habits appear to be killing them. Outside observers can sometimes penetrate these walls, but often not. Have you ever penetrated the walls of this kind of dysfunction and gotten positive results back? If so, maybe I can learn from you! Please be specific.

Public Comments

1. WHAT? all I know you said was PENETRATE.LOL
2. There are many people with jobs in the "helping field" like teachers, counselors, medical staff, direct care staff, police, fire, public officials and military personnel. Lots of people reach out through agencies like St Vincent de Paul, Red Cross, Salvation army....religions. Sometimes you help someone and often times do not. You have to take your victories and build them up and put your failures behind you. But your motivation is never the reward,,,,just the doing.
3. It is an activity of percentages. There is probably no one who can have 100% success with people who are so poisoned by delusion that they will not listen. Shakyamuni used the comparison of the burning house and the white ox. A man had to use a beautiful wagon drawn by a huge white ox to tempt his children to come out of the house on fire. They wouldn't listen to him warn them of the danger. For more than 20 years, I have been working with SGI-USA try to help people with problems overcome them. Most problems, as you point out, are self-created. Psychological conditions create physical conditions. We do have successes, even though, they are in a minority of cases. I helped on lady who had fibermyalga, asthma and several other conditions in addition to being trapped in a terrible marriage to a man who intimidated her. She began to practice with SGI and got rid of her fibermyalga and vastly improved her asthma and other conditions. She divorced her husband and got a good settlement. The one thing she would not do is give up blaming others and micro-analizing the insults done to her. As a result, even though she still practices with us, some of her conditions have worsened again